Tenley Chick Filet takes measures against loitering after school by students, including Wilson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And I'd like to add I have zero issue with OOB and IB kids who are behaving great. Thank you . By not addressing this the adults in your life are not doing you or the schools rep any favors whatsoever. Thats too bad the adults dont take pride in the Wilson tigers.

Why do you assume the adults at Wilson are not doing all the things you say?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A McDonalds in the area plays classical music which apparently is repellent to the teen loiterers.

Now that is funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A McDonalds in the area plays classical music which apparently is repellent to the teen loiterers.

Have you ever been around the McDonalds across from BCC at dismissal time? (I guess there's no play space at that location)

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

They are neither children nor fully developed adults. They are 17 -- they already drive, are about to start voting, can serve in the military, CAN certainly behave properly if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

but kids in past generations managed to leave school and go home at the end of the day without the behaviors described (and most kids do it today, even though they are 17 and younger). basic respect for themselves and others and basic rules of behavior can be easily grasped by a 17 yr old brain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

but kids in past generations managed to leave school and go home at the end of the day without the behaviors described (and most kids do it today, even though they are 17 and younger). basic respect for themselves and others and basic rules of behavior can be easily grasped by a 17 yr old brain.

Yeah, past generation of 17-year olds NEVER got into trouble (and there are no famous movies, musicals, books, songs, or plays about the bad behaviors of 17 years olds of past generations).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A McDonalds in the area plays classical music which apparently is repellent to the teen loiterers.

Have you ever been around the McDonalds across from BCC at dismissal time? (I guess there's no play space at that location)

Did you notice the big shiny new building there where it used to be like years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it is reasonable for people in public--including teenagers--to meet a somewhat higher standard of behavior than "it's not illegal", and for schools to communicate to their students (and their neighbors!) that they expect them to display good citizenship on and off campus.

I also do not think that loud, profane, racial talk, rude remarks to strangers, and pushing/shoving that spills over to others are behavior that should just be written off as "teens behaving like teens" any more than I think it's ok for young men to catcall or grope in public because "boys will be boys".

Agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

Most 16 or 17 years olds know to avoid spitting on other pedestrians. It's happened to me, by a Wilson student. I'd like to believe that she didn't seem me as she spit sideways rather than having done it deliberately, but her response made me wonder. When I said "excuse me, you just spit on me" and expected to hear "I'm so sorry" or "I didn't see you," instead I received an invective of F-bombs in reply. Her friends, who egged her on, seemed to find the whole incident amusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it is reasonable for people in public--including teenagers--to meet a somewhat higher standard of behavior than "it's not illegal", and for schools to communicate to their students (and their neighbors!) that they expect them to display good citizenship on and off campus.

I also do not think that loud, profane, racial talk, rude remarks to strangers, and pushing/shoving that spills over to others are behavior that should just be written off as "teens behaving like teens" any more than I think it's ok for young men to catcall or grope in public because "boys will be boys".

Agree!

+1. A lot of these kids hit the lottery and are able to attend the best DCPS has to offer (all relative of course). And, a lot of them just waste their time at Wilson. Sad. The apologists on this thread are doing these kids a big disservice. A little tough love at Wilson might serve them well in the real world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sick of people criminalizing children's behavior. Yes, these teenagers are CHILDREN. And it seems like they don't have better options than to loiter around a chick-fil-a chatting with their friends (sounds pretty harmless to me). And getting 1,000 kids in and out of a school could be pretty crazy.

In case you haven't been around teenagers recently: They are loud, they don't know exactly how to behave yet, they still want to play and have fun but are "too old" to play on playgrounds. I teach at a high school: teenagers love getting stickers. They try to act "grown up", but still sleep with a teddy bear and need their parents help.

When your little Larlo is suddenly a teenager who cusses and takes up the sidewalk while walking with his friends, and then other people call him a criminal/thug/brat, you'll feel differently. You'll know that he comes home and plays with his little brother. Or he loves basketball. Or dancing. Or science. Please stop talking like my students are criminals.

This wins for most naive post of the day. And its only 10:20am!! A 17 year old is NOT a child. These "kids" are doing a LOT more than talking too loud too. Do you even live in DC?

NP. Brains are not fully developed at 17. They are children.

Most 16 or 17 years olds know to avoid spitting on other pedestrians. It's happened to me, by a Wilson student. I'd like to believe that she didn't seem me as she spit sideways rather than having done it deliberately, but her response made me wonder. When I said "excuse me, you just spit on me" and expected to hear "I'm so sorry" or "I didn't see you," instead I received an invective of F-bombs in reply. Her friends, who egged her on, seemed to find the whole incident amusing.

But how would a 16-year-old possibly know that it is inappropriate to spit on someone? To scream curses at people? To walk with friends, full span across a sidewalk and stare down and curse at anyone coming the other direction who does not clear the whole sidewalk for the children? To climb up on top of someone else's car? These are just kids after all. And if these kids do these things, we should let them, no repercussions, no lessons learned. Otherwise, these kids might have their egos hurt (or might knife you).