Physical fights in the hallways?

[Anonymous]

Fights at our MS are frequent but most often, its girls doing the fighting and its vicious. Scratches, hair pulled, thrown down and mobbed girls who did nothing to provoke. I wish they would kick all the aggressors out. They just get temporarily pulled from class and do it again. It's a wild mix of kids at our school so some parents get shell shocked, not having encountered that before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fights at our MS are frequent but most often, its girls doing the fighting and its vicious. Scratches, hair pulled, thrown down and mobbed girls who did nothing to provoke. I wish they would kick all the aggressors out. They just get temporarily pulled from class and do it again. It's a wild mix of kids at our school so some parents get shell shocked, not having encountered that before.

Similar at our school- lots of "girl fights"- but in our case, innocent kids do not get pulled in

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is this a common-ish thing at your middle school? DD comes home maybe once a month and says there was a fight. Does this continue into high school?

FCPS parent here. Middle School, yes, specially girls. Once a month? how about once per week...

My kids are in high school now and there is barely any fights at all.

OP here. I wonder why it’s so “popular” amongst MS kids?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

What’s interesting is public schools do suspend for a fight but private schools do not.

PP. We’re in private. They absolutely suspend. There is no wiggle room.

[Anonymous]

W cluster, and yes it happens all the time in both the MS and the HS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welcome to Alexandria.

Don't you mean the jungle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this a common-ish thing at your middle school? DD comes home maybe once a month and says there was a fight. Does this continue into high school?

FCPS parent here. Middle School, yes, specially girls. Once a month? how about once per week...

My kids are in high school now and there is barely any fights at all.

OP here. I wonder why it’s so “popular” amongst MS kids?

hormones going nuts.

I think this is partly why so many MS focus on social/emotional learning rather than academics.

[Anonymous]

My kid says this has settled down a lot from middle school. In fact, the only time I hear about fights anymore is when it's MS kids fighting on the bus. HS kids seem to be mostly over it. And the MS kids fight on the bus because the school seems to have done a pretty good job of minimizing that kind of behavior in the actual building.

Now if they could just address the kids smoking weed on campus and having sex in the bathrooms...

[Anonymous]

I am so happy for this thread and feel validated. Our MS has an issue with these coordinated and posted fights. It’s like a weird social media trend. He wants to MOVE over it! I keep telling him it happens everywhere, but he doesn’t believe me.

[Anonymous]

No because all the students know they will be suspended if involved in a fight and even expelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No because all the students know they will be suspended if involved in a fight and even expelled.

Sure, Jan. What unicorn school do your middle schooler’s attend?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s because they don’t suspend kids any more. This used to be an automatic suspension.

I’m gettting jeered at in another thread for defending my DS’s school’s high suspension rate. Fights there happen but it’s rare and they are broken up immediately and kids suspended. They do not f around. As a result the school is relatively very calm.

PP here. Our newish middle school principal brags that he lowered the suspension rate by a lot. It’s because he simply doesn’t suspend people, not because behavior has improved.

PP. Our MS principal is unflinching about discipline - and my kid has been suspended! Also zero phones allowed. I’m wondering when some busy body will try to force the school to lower suspension rates.

Most of the suspensions are in-school, which works because the kids are bored and they are also forced to do some school work. It definitely helped my kid straighten up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy for this thread and feel validated. Our MS has an issue with these coordinated and posted fights. It’s like a weird social media trend. He wants to MOVE over it! I keep telling him it happens everywhere, but he doesn’t believe me.

Phones should be banned in school.

[Anonymous]

Yes common at our middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Minor fights occasionally (maybe one a year) but the kids get suspended immediately. K-8 private (coed).

Lol

Laugh all you want but it works. Kids know if they misbehave they’re getting suspended.

What’s interesting is public schools do suspend for a fight but private schools do not.

Any physical altercations at my kid’s private school ended in suspensions and possibly expulsion.