Current 8th graders at NCS, applying out for 9th?

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The school has had variations of this problem for years. Time for new administration-HOS in particular.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. The intent was to humiliate an innocent girl. Were these girls expelled? Is that why so many people left NCS this year?

No, unfortunately. That is the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:A parallel is to when racism was accepted as nothing you can do to change behavior. Well there is a lot you can do and if people refuse to work to change mindset they should be held accountable.

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Anonymous wrote:How many rising ninth graders ultimately decided to leave NCS?

15

Nope, way high

My daughter is in this class, and yes 15 girls left. A handful for boarding school. None were asked to leave.

Probably a troll. Not accurate count, yes some went to boarding school and yes there was a girl asked to leave in this grade. I would suggest any truth-seeking parent interested in this overtired thread, call the school for factual information.

+100 Parent of a daughter in this class.

I'm not a parent in the class but if someone was then it would be easy to see who left if you looked at the directory through the portal I imagine. Just look at the class and see how many girls from 8th are no longer listed. Since it's now late July they have transitioned out those who left and added new girls. Easy to see.

I'm not a troll. No one was expelled, or suspended, or asked to leave. If you call and ask the school for "factual info" they won't give it to you. They'll just say natural turnover. Yes, this is an accurate count. Maybe it was 13, but not the original 20 something that applied out. I have no reason to come to this thread and spread lies.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting thought. Maybe these schools should bring parents (whose kids engaged in this stuff) together to talk about what they are doing wrong and how it can be helped. Saying not much a school can do is a cop out. If parents refused..sirt of brutal but if some of these girls were expelled (ring leaders) maybe other parents would get a clue and practuce working with their kids.

This is an interesting twist on big-brotherism. Maybe all social media, texts and emails, of all students and families, should be examined by private school administrations, every day, to make sure they are appropriate by the standards of one parent who is on a crusade. That's why we send our kids to school, right? Because, parents can't be trusted to raise their kids so the responsibility has to be handed over to the private sector.

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When your child's behavior becomes public and it affects another child's well being then yes big brother need to step in. The irony is this could have been a teachable moment and it could have helped a group of nasty girls learn and do better in their lives. I blame their parents. If the bullied girl opted to not go to NCS I am guessing it was because nothing was done. No one takes time and energy and expense to apply to a school without hope of actually going. Kids can do dumb things but it takes parents and school working together to learn from it and want to act better.

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Anonymous wrote:When your child's behavior becomes public and it affects another child's well being then yes big brother need to step in. The irony is this could have been a teachable moment and it could have helped a group of nasty girls learn and do better in their lives. I blame their parents. If the bullied girl opted to not go to NCS I am guessing it was because nothing was done. No one takes time and energy and expense to apply to a school without hope of actually going. Kids can do dumb things but it takes parents and school working together to learn from it and want to act better.

Do you spend a lot of time working with your child's school to modify their behavior?

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?? I do spend a lot of my time talking with my child about being nice and not using the internet to humiliate people. Kindness is a good thing.

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Anonymous wrote:?? I do spend a lot of my time talking with my child about being nice and not using the internet to humiliate people. Kindness is a good thing.

As all parents should.

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Anonymous wrote:When your child's behavior becomes public and it affects another child's well being then yes big brother need to step in. The irony is this could have been a teachable moment and it could have helped a group of nasty girls learn and do better in their lives. I blame their parents. If the bullied girl opted to not go to NCS I am guessing it was because nothing was done. No one takes time and energy and expense to apply to a school without hope of actually going. Kids can do dumb things but it takes parents and school working together to learn from it and want to act better.

She was headed to NCS this Fall but changed her mind when all this came out and she realized what a bunch of horrible, mean, petty girls she would be joining at NCS in the class of 2021. Luckily, she is brilliant and got into every private she applied to. She is gong to another top school in DC.

The parents on here who are defining that class' behavior should be ashamed of themselves. It is very well-known how awful behaved many of the 2021 girls are at NCS. It certainly is NOT a secret! And many, many more girls than normal are leaving that class for next year - some of the girls leaving are nice but others are some of the meanest of the mean. The NCS parents who are coming on here and denying this are full of @#*#.

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Anonymous wrote:When your child's behavior becomes public and it affects another child's well being then yes big brother need to step in. The irony is this could have been a teachable moment and it could have helped a group of nasty girls learn and do better in their lives. I blame their parents. If the bullied girl opted to not go to NCS I am guessing it was because nothing was done. No one takes time and energy and expense to apply to a school without hope of actually going. Kids can do dumb things but it takes parents and school working together to learn from it and want to act better.

She was headed to NCS this Fall but changed her mind when all this came out and she realized what a bunch of horrible, mean, petty girls she would be joining at NCS in the class of 2021. Luckily, she is brilliant and got into every private she applied to. She is gong to another top school in DC.

The parents on here who are defining that class' behavior should be ashamed of themselves. It is very well-known how awful behaved many of the 2021 girls are at NCS. It certainly is NOT a secret! And many, many more girls than normal are leaving that class for next year - some of the girls leaving are nice but others are some of the meanest of the mean. The NCS parents who are coming on here and denying this are full of @#*#.

No one is defending the behavior of the girls in the group text. Some, including myself, will point out that defining the entire class or student body with over-heated rhetoric based on the acts of a few girls is not fair or accurate. You're angry, and justifiably so. We figured that out months ago BUT trying to bully the school into exacting a pound of flesh on your behalf by expelling the girls for something that happened outside of the school in a multi-thread, months-long crusade is going too far. Tarring the girls that left as possibly one of the "meanest of the mean" when they arrive at their new schools is going to far. Hopefully, you have contacted the parents of the texting girls and let them know that they hurt your daughter and hopefully, they took appropriate steps regarding their daughters. That's the only realistic possibility. The school doesn't (and shouldn't) have total authority over the lives of the student body. I wish you peace and serenity. Good luck to you and your family!

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You sound like either a parent of one of the textures or one of their friends. No one outside of this situation thinks these girls should be allowed to stay at NCS without some kind of formal acknowledgment and punishment. What does it take for schools to get involved? Glad to hear the girl affected landed on her feet but sad she wasn't able to stay with her first choice.

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Texting girls

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Anonymous wrote:You sound like either a parent of one of the textures or one of their friends. No one outside of this situation thinks these girls should be allowed to stay at NCS without some kind of formal acknowledgment and punishment. What does it take for schools to get involved? Glad to hear the girl affected landed on her feet but sad she wasn't able to stay with her first choice.

It's hard to argue with a person claiming to speak for everyone in the world.

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Wow, not pp but can't help but point out that the posters who are trying to justify the inexcusable behavior of these girls or who don't believe they should be punished are just contributing to the problem. Bad parenting such as this is how these girls got in this predicament in the first place. Unfortunately, if this behavior is not squashed by parents or the school it will only continue and escalate. Sure kids make mistakes, but if there are no consequences how will they ever learn from it, change their behavior, and become better human beings? Parenting and running a school can be tough jobs, but they are jobs that should be done well. Trust me everyone will respect those who do it well - even if that means being tough sometimes, setting boundaries, and enforcing consequences. In the end, you will be respected more by everyone, even the offenders.