Fairfax County McDonald's restricts dine-in to 21+ after incidents of 'student violence'

[Anonymous]

Parents can discipline their kids home. however when they go to school where good behavior and discipline are not part of school life, these kids are influenced by the others. This is not just on the parents, the schools need to support and take ownership as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't the inside of pretty much every urban and inner-ring urban suburb McDonald's feel sketchy these days? Certainly not a place I want to be in, youth ban or not. And the hard plastic decor literally resembles a jail. All of it has a greasy sheen to it. Disgusting.

True. I stopped eating there years ago. The food tastes like salt, but that's what people seem to like so...

[Anonymous]

What school do your kids go to?

Writing off an entire community because of a small % of kids is extremely privileged and gross.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an Edison parent, I can tell you it does not reflect the greater Edison community at large so this is not an informed take.

Anonymous wrote:Really does not reflect well on the Edison HS community.

Yes, it does. Sticking your head in the sand does nothing. You need to reach out and get the underprivileged youth to have better values. Otherwise they end up in jail or dead from fentanyl overdoses. Young women who do not use birth control is where it starts. Babies having babies. Let's get real. Otherwise it's just TikTok challenges and other BS.

I would be embarrassed if my kids went to this school. And so should you.

[Anonymous]

This is why people flee to the exurbs. My parents did it (not in the DC area) before I was born 44 years ago. We did it before ours were born. Nothing new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why people flee to the exurbs. My parents did it (not in the DC area) before I was born 44 years ago. We did it before ours were born. Nothing new.

Shame on your parents for not wanting to live amongst public transport, high-density rental housing, traffic, and eroding overcrowded schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an Edison parent, I can tell you it does not reflect the greater Edison community at large so this is not an informed take.

Anonymous wrote:Really does not reflect well on the Edison HS community.

Yes, it does. Sticking your head in the sand does nothing. You need to reach out and get the underprivileged youth to have better values. Otherwise they end up in jail or dead from fentanyl overdoses. Young women who do not use birth control is where it starts. Babies having babies. Let's get real. Otherwise it's just TikTok challenges and other BS.

I would be embarrassed if my kids went to this school. And so should you.

How are the other parents supposed to parent kids whose families clearly aren’t doing their jobs? All they can do is support their own kids and be supportive to their kids friends. It gets old when people keep acting like other people are responsible. There are lots of great kids who go to that school with involved parents. The admin is doing their best but they’re only allowed to do so much given the current parameters and rules in place in schools these days.

People need to parent and hold their own kids accountable. The staff and other patrons of that McDonald’s should be able to feel safe and if keeping kids out allows that then that should be the wake up call to the parents of the kids who caused it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why people flee to the exurbs. My parents did it (not in the DC area) before I was born 44 years ago. We did it before ours were born. Nothing new.

Franconia isn’t a close in urban area. It’s textbook suburbia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an Edison parent, I can tell you it does not reflect the greater Edison community at large so this is not an informed take.

Anonymous wrote:Really does not reflect well on the Edison HS community.

Yes, it does. Sticking your head in the sand does nothing. You need to reach out and get the underprivileged youth to have better values. Otherwise they end up in jail or dead from fentanyl overdoses. Young women who do not use birth control is where it starts. Babies having babies. Let's get real. Otherwise it's just TikTok challenges and other BS.

I would be embarrassed if my kids went to this school. And so should you.

How are the other parents supposed to parent kids whose families clearly aren’t doing their jobs? All they can do is support their own kids and be supportive to their kids friends. It gets old when people keep acting like other people are responsible. There are lots of great kids who go to that school with involved parents. The admin is doing their best but they’re only allowed to do so much given the current parameters and rules in place in schools these days.

People need to parent and hold their own kids accountable. The staff and other patrons of that McDonald’s should be able to feel safe and if keeping kids out allows that then that should be the wake up call to the parents of the kids who caused it.

It takes a village! The child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel the warmth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people flee to the exurbs. My parents did it (not in the DC area) before I was born 44 years ago. We did it before ours were born. Nothing new.

Franconia isn’t a close in urban area. It’s textbook suburbia.

Franconia used to be really nice suburbia and there are still very nice pockets. But some of the schools have taken a huge tumble in terms of quality and safety in the last couple of decades. It ends up being like a lot of other Alexandria neighborhoods where there are pockets of good elementary school and communities, but families leave for Burke or something in middle school or they go private.

[Anonymous]

Those kids do not represent the entire school. No more than the kid who did the stabbing represents West Potomac. No more than the Irving kids who fight and trash stores represent the West Springfield area. There are so many examples of kids who behave poorly in Every. FCPS. School.

Don't let them overpower the thousands of kids who are doing amazing things in the school system right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why people flee to the exurbs. My parents did it (not in the DC area) before I was born 44 years ago. We did it before ours were born. Nothing new.

Franconia isn’t a close in urban area. It’s textbook suburbia.

Spare us your pedantic and disingenuous spin. And you know full well how bad families got out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those kids do not represent the entire school. No more than the kid who did the stabbing represents West Potomac. No more than the Irving kids who fight and trash stores represent the West Springfield area. There are so many examples of kids who behave poorly in Every. FCPS. School.

Don't let them overpower the thousands of kids who are doing amazing things in the school system right now.

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[Anonymous]

Why isn't this happening at Bradley shopping center in Alexandria?

[Anonymous]

The issue with the Franconia McDonald’s appears to have been the frequency of the bad behavior by Edison students after school. You can point to isolated incidents elsewhere but when teenagers basically take over a place and regularly make it unsafe for others to visit it’s time to limit their access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really does not reflect well on the Edison HS community.

Isn’t Edison the high school that receives a number of PG County residents committing residency fraud? It’s even been posted in the Hayfield Football thread that Edison is nicknamed the best high school in PG county. Maybe the county should look into all of the Maryland plates at morning drop off.