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Anonymous
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My 10th grader loves Mac. It is the first positive school experience DC has had. DC likes their friends and their teachers. Their largest class has 20 kids. Others have 15. The bus is straight drama after school. I offered to pick up DC but they LOVE observing the bus drama after school—said it is the highlight of their day after a boring day at school. Insert eye roll. It is mostly 9th graders creating bus drama, and DC has observed that a large part of the problem is that a number of the kids have ADHD/impulse control issues and need to be medicated! (FWIW DC has ADHD and is medicated and said they understood exactly what the problem is with some of the kids). Not only has the principal gone to the bus stops but he said he also has teachers who are on point to make sure kids get safely to bus stops and on and off.
I’m hoping these are the growing pains of kids who are new to high school and finding their way. But DC is happy. |
Anonymous
The Pre-AP classes are NOT advanced classes (they are on grade level) and the principal or VP stated as much at BTSN. He clearly stated that they are not accelerated, just a precursor to AP classes which students can take in the later grades. |
Anonymous
Straight drama may be fun until you’re on the receiving end of the drama. My kid has been repeatedly picked on by another boy on the bus and does not want to ride it anymore. They also don’t want to raise a stink about it and become the target of further “drama” as it would be obvious who complained. My kid has been riding Metro bus in DC since middle school and says this particular bus is bananas. My kid also has ADHD (don’t they all these days??) and is usually pretty down for rowdiness but has said that these bus rides are too fraught. The Principal even mentioned MPD having to get involved if kids couldn’t pull it together so I think it may be a few level above your everyday “teens on the bus” drama. |
Anonymous
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The KEY POINT in the whole bus ordeal is that the principal is proactive and on top of it. I have complete faith he will fix it, even if it takes a few attempts.
That confidence in the school's leadership is worth a fortune. Those who have been at schools were you didn't have that confidence can relate to how comforting it is to finally have. |
Anonymous
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Still working on this
The story ran on WTOP today https://wtop.com/dc/2023/09/calls-renewed-for-woefully-underused-trail-to-become-bike-path-to-new-dc-high-school/ This trail can connect to: 14 schools 5 parks 2 Libraries 2 hospitals 2 Pool Here is a link to the Google map. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zUwgzrGxl4cY.k1qHhNCDWrRY The trail is directly behind the HS |
Anonymous
How is he going to fix how kids and others act on a public school bus? Seriously. It’s fine to look good and make a appearance for 1 or 2 days but you are naive to think it’s going to make a difference or the kids won’t continue to act the way they do the rest of the year. |
Anonymous
Typ public metro bus |
Anonymous
| Saw something on Nextdoor about a child being hit by a white SUV at dismissal today. Hit and run. I hope the child is ok. I worry about this a lot. MacArthur and Foxhall are like speedways during morning and afternoon commutes. |
Anonymous
| The child is ok from what I hear. My DC said the driver stopped and it was no hit and run. Driver ran a red light. |
Anonymous
My kid said the light was in favor of the driver. The child was ranting dramatically, walked into oncoming traffic, was catapulted to the opposite side of the crosswalk, jumped up and said she was “okay”. |
Anonymous
Only possible solution is let's put schools where there are no cars and no people. Problem solved! |
Anonymous
Well the mother of the child said the driver left the scene. It's on nextdoor. |
Anonymous
Very weird though as it's a duplicate post from one she made 9/5/23 but letter form school says event was 9/20 |
Anonymous
| The city duty It should be put on the bus alone for students. What happened with the buses that were going to put on these routes. This way, it would be better to know what they do and say without respecting the rest of people who use the bus. There are small children who have to listen to curse words and bad words, not only from this school but from all the schools that use the same bus. Andremembethatexcessive use |
Anonymous
| Yum! Word salad!! |