Emotional needs of our students

[Anonymous]

Wrong, wrong! It's based on size of school. If you are in a high SES school your competition for spots us harder. Better to be a big fish in a small pond than one of many.
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Here's a hint to the SLEEP parents: your child will not get more hours in the day. He will just stay up later.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the super early start times are not helping our kids mental health. Children should not be getting up at 5:30AM to go to school.

Dr Garza needs to wake up and change the school schedule.

I think staying up too late at night does not help our kids' mental health.

Sounds like the perspective of the working parent who wants to ship the kid out ASAP in the morning so she can get to her cubicle by 8:30. Teenagers have different sleep patterns, so the start times need to be changed back to what they used to be. Anyone in the know will tell you the later start times in APS are a selling point there.

Will do donate and drive the extra school buses that would be required, or do you want the little kids to wake up at 5:30?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's a hint to the SLEEP parents: your child will not get more hours in the day. He will just stay up later.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like the perspective of the working parent who wants to ship the kid out ASAP in the morning so she can get to her cubicle by 8:30. Teenagers have different sleep patterns, so the start times need to be changed back to what they used to be. Anyone in the know will tell you the later start times in APS are a selling point there.

from a parent who likes to sleep in....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the super early start times are not helping our kids mental health. Children should not be getting up at 5:30AM to go to school.

Dr Garza needs to wake up and change the school schedule.

I think staying up too late at night does not help our kids' mental health.

Sounds like the perspective of the working parent who wants to ship the kid out ASAP in the morning so she can get to her cubicle by 8:30. Teenagers have different sleep patterns, so the start times need to be changed back to what they used to be. Anyone in the know will tell you the later start times in APS are a selling point there.

Will do donate and drive the extra school buses that would be required, or do you want the little kids to wake up at 5:30?

*you

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Anonymous wrote:So the last 3 pages or so are from the same tired poster who pulled her kid out of Langley and into private school and life seemed rosey. Until she learned that underprivileged kids and URMs have an edge over her kid in college admissions? Now she advocates those kids not be given an advantage and her kid penalized? And also brags that there's zero SAT prep in her house cause that's now how they roll?

+1000. This is one BITTER woman with lots of time on her hands. Anytime Langley is mentioned, brace yourself for the bitterness that's about to be unleashed. She seems to be getting more bitter with time. Before it was mainly directed at Langley, now it's minority kids. Hopefully she'll get some help before we get to the next group. Also, she keeps saying a lot of kids speak to her. I would keep my kid as far away from her as possible because at some point this very negative, poor me mentality will rub off on them. Kids who are already stressed should not be exposed to someone who is in effect fueling their sense of despair by teaching them that everything is stacked against them. Not healthy at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So the last 3 pages or so are from the same tired poster who pulled her kid out of Langley and into private school and life seemed rosey. Until she learned that underprivileged kids and URMs have an edge over her kid in college admissions? Now she advocates those kids not be given an advantage and her kid penalized? And also brags that there's zero SAT prep in her house cause that's now how they roll?

+1000. This is one BITTER woman with lots of time on her hands. Anytime Langley is mentioned, brace yourself for the bitterness that's about to be unleashed. She seems to be getting more bitter with time. Before it was mainly directed at Langley, now it's minority kids. Hopefully she'll get some help before we get to the next group. Also, she keeps saying a lot of kids speak to her. I would keep my kid as far away from her as possible because at some point this very negative, poor me mentality will rub off on them. Kids who are already stressed should not be exposed to someone who is in effect fueling their sense of despair by teaching them that everything is stacked against them. Not healthy at all.

I don't even know your enemies, but you sound like the bitter one to me.

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Sounds like the perspective of the working parent who wants to ship the kid out ASAP in the morning so she can get to her cubicle by 8:30. Teenagers have different sleep patterns, so the start times need to be changed back to what they used to be. Anyone in the know will tell you the later start times in APS are a selling point there.

from a parent who likes to sleep in....

Does a high school kid really care what you're doing in the morning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here's a hint to the SLEEP parents: your child will not get more hours in the day. He will just stay up later.

Exactly.

The sleep research tells us otherwise, but you already know that.

[Anonymous]

The sleep research tells us otherwise, but you already know that.

Could start school at noon and they'd still need more sleep.

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The sleep research tells us otherwise, but you already know that.

Could start school at noon and they'd still need more sleep.

But teens will do less drugs in the am then they do getting home from school before 3.

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Wrong, wrong! It's based on size of school. If you are in a high SES school your competition for spots us harder. Better to be a big fish in a small pond than one of many.
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Duh!! If 3/4 of your school has very high SAT scores/GPA, etc. they still only will take a certain percentage from that school.

Better to be in a school where only 1/4-1/3 have those credentials--but same County. Your chances if getting acceptance are greater.

You also will have an easier time getting a higher overall class ranking.

Not rocket science here...

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Wrong, wrong! It's based on size of school. If you are in a high SES school your competition for spots us harder. Better to be a big fish in a small pond than one of many.
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Duh!! If 3/4 of your school has very high SAT scores/GPA, etc. they still only will take a certain percentage from that school.

Better to be in a school where only 1/4-1/3 have those credentials--but same County. Your chances if getting acceptance are greater.

You also will have an easier time getting a higher overall class ranking.

Not rocket science here...

Not necessarily the truth, either. Schools aren't going to lose any sleep if they turn down all the candidates from a school that has a mediocre reputation.

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Anonymous wrote:So the last 3 pages or so are from the same tired poster who pulled her kid out of Langley and into private school and life seemed rosey. Until she learned that underprivileged kids and URMs have an edge over her kid in college admissions? Now she advocates those kids not be given an advantage and her kid penalized? And also brags that there's zero SAT prep in her house cause that's now how they roll?

By moving out of publics, you avoid quotas. Quotas are tied to state funding and other forms of politics. Since my kid is going to go to the college she wants, the college she likes best, for us, the admissions issue doesn't really matter. It does, however, on a political whole.

Again, you are assuming this is strictly personal. It's really a political issue to me.

If you think every qualified kid from Potomac, Flint Hill, O'Connell, [insert any non-public HS name here], gets into UVA, W&M, VaTech, JMU, etc, then you are very wrong. There are always limits when more qualified kids apply than there are college seats to fill.

Of course they don't! But they don't have the politics of quotas working against them either.

How is "politics of quotas" different from "We don't enough space to accept every qualified kid. We want our freshman class to be diverse at every level. We won't fill our class with kids from NOVA and DC privates. And yes, we'll give an edge to the poor kid or URM"? The first you abhor and the second you accept with an "Of course!"

Quotas are very specific to individual schools, i.e. UVA will take only X number from Langley, but Y number from Herndon. That's driven by the state and funding. What the college itself chooses to do with diversity can be more personal to them - each college will approach that differently.

Wrong, wrong! It's based on size of school. If you are in a high SES school your competition for spots us harder. Better to be a big fish in a small pond than one of many.

Size or socioeconomic status?