Fighting at Jackson Reed

[Anonymous]

*that had a really hard time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is a hall sweep?

Staff walking the halls and moving kids into class. Once the bell rings, you have to be in class. No hanging out in the hallway. This is a common practice in high schools everywhere.

Yes. There are many kids who try to skip class or go late.
Kids don’t care too much about hall sweeps because the consequences are zero or limited

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How does this work for a shy kid? Is it easy to stay out of trouble? Any bullying at the school?

Very easy. Kids who want trouble at Wilson can find it, and kids who don’t can easily avoid it. It’s not like the school is full of 1980’s style bullies that seek out the weak.

Time and time again kids are taking to social media to do their bullying. Kids believe everything they read and get power by promoting posts, true or not. The assumption is if it’s in print it’s true. Sometimes kids self inflict it and it backfires. Sometime lies are taken as truths. I’ve seen it with my kids cohort at every level of school, ES, MS, now J-R.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it true there are multiple fights at Jackson Reed every day? I'm having a hard time reconciling that with the great things I hear about their teachers, academics, extra curriculars,.etc. Maybe the rumors of fights are exaggerated? Thanks in advance.

Yes, there are near-daily fights in the last two weeks. There are days with as many as three to five fights. The fights don't involve random kids but specific kids with specific beefs. If your kid isn't involved with such conflicts then they won't be directly involved/hurt in the fighting. Obviously, even if your kid isn't directly involved, the climate in which fights occur isn't great and your kid might well find the situation stressful. But you don't have to worry for their physical safety. Beyond beefs, why do the fights take place? Some ideas: JR is over-crowded; it's been enough time since the start of school for conflicts to have developed and reached their boiling points; students might be stressed about grades/failing on progress reports; not enough security or admin monitoring the hallways.

[Anonymous]

My DC tells me the fighters are usually girls (actually, he said "hot cheato girls", which is apparently a thing). That surprised me.

[Anonymous]

I assume that’s spelled “hot Cheeto girl”. Term of art.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume that’s spelled “hot Cheeto girl”. Term of art.

I thought was up to date on slang but I had to google this one.

[Anonymous]

yes there was a fight (actually i understand it was multiple fights) on Friday in the atrium. my kid saw it from a window on one of the upper floors and i saw part of a video that a friend took (manyb kids on the sides taking videos). there were girls involved in the fight but i dont know if this was a girl only. I was surprised to hear that the fights were in th atrium, where everybody can see and close to the principal office and security at the door. I am not sure if I understood correctly but principal and other staff member intervened and one got punched in the face, one made a kid fall from a table and a security person fell on another kid. I understand that this was an outlier in terms of so many people involved but there are fights here and there. from what i get, is not bullies juumping on an innocent person, more like group of kids having a disagreement and solving it wiht fists. my kid is a petite girl (a senior) and never one time has felt that she or her friends were unsafe.

as a side note, we had family visiting from Europe and they saw the video of the fight, they were beyond appalled.

[Anonymous]

Crazy..No way should a school be as overcrowded as JR or Deal. You are asking for issues. Innocence bystanders get hurt all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids said there were multiple fights today. It sounds like the new principal is going hard core on hall sweeps and "zero tolerance," which my kids think is actually ratcheting up tension in some instances. (They also said the hall sweeps are disruptive to class, since kids filter in 20 minutes late after waiting to get written up in the office.)

They don't talk about fights much, so I assume today was an outlier.

Why not just write kids up on the spot? Or use some sort of app? This paper and go to the office stuff is so last century.

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They are writing them up on the spot. On a given floor there might be 20+ students caught in hall sweep. It takes time to write those passes. If it's their second time in the hall sweep, the administrator/dean is also calling home. It's a big effort, and needs to be done consistently to work.

[Anonymous]

I'm PP - please disregard my comment above -- I thought I was responding to a comment about the hall sweeps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is a hall sweep?

Staff walking the halls and moving kids into class. Once the bell rings, you have to be in class. No hanging out in the hallway. This is a common practice in high schools everywhere.

Umm, no it’s not.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see how parents can tolerate daily fights at a place they send their kids to learn. It’s clearly been made an accepted inconvenience, without serious consequences. Sounds like parents and kids are trying to normalize the behavior. Fist fights are not ok.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC tells me the fighters are usually girls (actually, he said "hot cheato girls", which is apparently a thing). That surprised me.

Hmmm like child like parent I guess. Racist apples don't fall far from the racist tree.