Things my 8th grader will not miss once leaving Deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

Should’ve added in my first response but all of these things also happened at my ivy so hope your child eventually weans themself off the snowflake juice you feed them

Wtf college did you attend where people were pulling fire alarms and having behavior assemblies?

An ivy, of course. PP was very clear about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

+1. My kids haven’t encountered these things at their private middle school either. They’re intrigued by our neighbor’s stories of fights at our zoned-middle school and couldn’t believe it when they heard condoms were found in the bathroom.

+2. I absolutely assure the blase PPs that the majority of these things do not happen at DC private middle schools, and if they do (e.g. fights), kids are immediately suspended. You have to go to PP's ivy to find this kind of behavior.

[Anonymous]

10 reasons I homeschooled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

I went to a PUBLIC middle school and encountered none of this.

[Anonymous]

LOL - I guess Deal has really gone downhill since my 2nd kid graduated 9 months ago!

Aside from the occasional fights I never heard any of these complaints from my boys one of whom was a bit of a snowflake.

I've never heard a kid complain about, care or even notice the smell of Pot.

But go ahead and shelter your snowflake by sending him to a private school - overcrowding is the real issue at Deal so glad if your hyperbole helps out with that problem in even a little way!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

+1. My kids haven’t encountered these things at their private middle school either. They’re intrigued by our neighbor’s stories of fights at our zoned-middle school and couldn’t believe it when they heard condoms were found in the bathroom.

Your kids are growing up sheltered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

So, middle school. Great attempt to slam deal tho

I went to a private middle school and encountered none of this

I went to a PUBLIC middle school and encountered none of this.

Well it must not have been an urban middle school - Deal is like Mayberry compared to my public middle school 35 years ago. I was exposed to more smoking and drinking in middle school than my kids have been at Wilson and there was definitely more sexual hanky panky 35 years ago. FWIW my middle school was whiter than Deal but also lower income across all races.

[Anonymous]

I know I was thinking about sex, cussing, etc, especially as an 8th grader in the late 80s. Most parents just choose to forget! Keep it 100. Guess what I graduated college in 4 years, work for the govt, and overall have a great life!

[Anonymous]

Why would you leave your kid in such a bad school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

If the bathrooms are locked how do you know that they don’t have soap and kids are giving each other tattoos?

🤔

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you leave your kid in such a bad school?

+1

[Anonymous]

My kid now attends an Arlington MS with a higher % of poor kids than Deal with none of the problems OP mentions. The school has strong, stable leadership and is under capacity (built for 1000 students, enrolls 150 fewer). The weak leadership at Deal coupled with the crowding can get toxic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a lovely dinner conversation this evening and this is the short list that was talked about:
1 - Avoiding Nerf Gun Battles in the Hallways
2 - Locked Bathrooms
3 - Going to the Bathroom and watching others give stick and poke tattoos
4 - Fights
5- Classmates pulling fire alarms
6 - Bathrooms without soap
7 - Smell of pot while walking to / from school
8 - Going to class and there not being any adults there
9 - Going to class and there being a bunch of kids there who are not in the class
10 - Having an assembly to talk about school rules and knowing it is a joke and will never be enforced

Should’ve added in my first response but all of these things also happened at my ivy so hope your child eventually weans themself off the snowflake juice you feed them

Wtf college did you attend where people were pulling fire alarms and having behavior assemblies?

You’ve never had an RA go over rules? And never had a kid pull an alarm in a dorm in the middle of the night? are you sure you went to college

NP. I definitely graduated from college (and law school), and I experienced none of what is described above. It sounds like I went to a much better college than you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sad that DC’s best middle school is so trashy.

The best? Nope!

[Anonymous]

I went to a good suburban middle school in a flyover state and never saw anything like what OP describes.