Deal Behavior

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Anonymous wrote:The kid was taken to the hospital. Lots of blood. My kid came home with the story.

Yes the boy was in my DC’s class apparently he was in the hospital for a couple of days with a head injury. If I would be pressing criminal charges against that girl, if he were my son. I would also have an unending crusade to get her kicked out of school period.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess it depends on what "off the rails" means. Fights, skipping class, etc.? Yup, since the beginning of the year - much of it is recapped during dinner. Our 6th grader has brought home stories of students who regularly roam the hallways during class, physical altercations, stolen cell phones, etc.

How would your child know who’s roaming the halls unless they were also roaming the halls? ?

There is a student in that t routinely leaves the classroom. I’m assuming the student is roaming hallways, I supposed they could be leaving the school altogether and then returning. It comes up at dinner because my kid is in disbelief that the student gets away with it without consequences.

Or the child has a 504 plan or an IEP that allows them to leave the classroom when needed. Tell your kid to worry about themselves.

If your child is seeing someone stealing phones or fighting, they need to report it, obviously. But there are other explanations for 'wandering' which may be legitimate.

So their 504 or IEP allows them to roam the halls all day and go in and out of other classrooms as they please when class is in session? I don't think so.
I don't know why you're set on defending this behavior or pretending it doesn't exist at Deal. I have 2 kids there and have many Deal students over to my house each week. They all see this going on because it does and if you ask them, they'll tell you about it. Either that or they're all in a giant conspiracy to make things up. I hear about it from both of my kids and from whatever kids they're with.
Regarding 6th grade: there are about a half-dozen 6th graders that just do what they please.
There have been fights in the hallways. Lots of illicit cell phone use. Lots of disrespect to teachers, including cursing at teachers. Tons of profanity, period. This is all 6th grade. My kid is learning but it's not a serene environment. I can imagine it would
be difficult for a kid who is easily distracted or otherwise more sensitive.

In general DCPS does a crappy job with special needs kids. This isn’t a Deal problem but rather a DCPS problem in all schools. If your kid is in the faster-paced classes, there is less behavioral problems. My DC uses this as motivation to be on the honor roll every term.

In the faster-paced classes, kids learn to say, "...there are fewer behavioral problems."

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Anonymous wrote:I guess it depends on what "off the rails" means. Fights, skipping class, etc.? Yup, since the beginning of the year - much of it is recapped during dinner. Our 6th grader has brought home stories of students who regularly roam the hallways during class, physical altercations, stolen cell phones, etc.

How would your child know who’s roaming the halls unless they were also roaming the halls? ?

There is a student in that t routinely leaves the classroom. I’m assuming the student is roaming hallways, I supposed they could be leaving the school altogether and then returning. It comes up at dinner because my kid is in disbelief that the student gets away with it without consequences.

Or the child has a 504 plan or an IEP that allows them to leave the classroom when needed. Tell your kid to worry about themselves.

If your child is seeing someone stealing phones or fighting, they need to report it, obviously. But there are other explanations for 'wandering' which may be legitimate.

So their 504 or IEP allows them to roam the halls all day and go in and out of other classrooms as they please when class is in session? I don't think so.
I don't know why you're set on defending this behavior or pretending it doesn't exist at Deal. I have 2 kids there and have many Deal students over to my house each week. They all see this going on because it does and if you ask them, they'll tell you about it. Either that or they're all in a giant conspiracy to make things up. I hear about it from both of my kids and from whatever kids they're with.
Regarding 6th grade: there are about a half-dozen 6th graders that just do what they please.
There have been fights in the hallways. Lots of illicit cell phone use. Lots of disrespect to teachers, including cursing at teachers. Tons of profanity, period. This is all 6th grade. My kid is learning but it's not a serene environment. I can imagine it would
be difficult for a kid who is easily distracted or otherwise more sensitive.

In general DCPS does a crappy job with special needs kids. This isn’t a Deal problem but rather a DCPS problem in all schools. If your kid is in the faster-paced classes, there is less behavioral problems. My DC uses this as motivation to be on the honor roll every term.

In the faster-paced classes, kids learn to say, "...there are fewer behavioral problems."

Sure. Whatever. You’re totally right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone else been hearing from their kid that behavior at Deal has gone off the rails?

Deal behavior has always been off the rails, however they usually hide it well and don't report it.

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I’ve heard of teachers getting hit.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid also mentioned lots of unruly behavior at Deal. Kids hiding in the bathroom with their phones. Lots of cursing and aggressive behavior.
I am pretty disappointed as it seems worse than a few years ago when my older child was there. Work load also seems to have decreased.

finally the Deal secret is out, check out your older kids and ask them what went on downstairs, in hallways, bathrooms, and the level of disrespect over the past 5 years has gone downhill.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid also mentioned lots of unruly behavior at Deal. Kids hiding in the bathroom with their phones. Lots of cursing and aggressive behavior.
I am pretty disappointed as it seems worse than a few years ago when my older child was there. Work load also seems to have decreased.

finally the Deal secret is out, check out your older kids and ask them what went on downstairs, in hallways, bathrooms, and the level of disrespect over the past 5 years has gone downhill.

[Anonymous]

So how many people whose kids with witnessing illegal or violent behavior are withdrawing your students.

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Anonymous wrote:I guess it depends on what "off the rails" means. Fights, skipping class, etc.? Yup, since the beginning of the year - much of it is recapped during dinner. Our 6th grader has brought home stories of students who regularly roam the hallways during class, physical altercations, stolen cell phones, etc.

How would your child know who’s roaming the halls unless they were also roaming the halls? ?

There is a student in that t routinely leaves the classroom. I’m assuming the student is roaming hallways, I supposed they could be leaving the school altogether and then returning. It comes up at dinner because my kid is in disbelief that the student gets away with it without consequences.

Or the child has a 504 plan or an IEP that allows them to leave the classroom when needed. Tell your kid to worry about themselves.

If your child is seeing someone stealing phones or fighting, they need to report it, obviously. But there are other explanations for 'wandering' which may be legitimate.

So their 504 or IEP allows them to roam the halls all day and go in and out of other classrooms as they please when class is in session? I don't think so.
I don't know why you're set on defending this behavior or pretending it doesn't exist at Deal. I have 2 kids there and have many Deal students over to my house each week. They all see this going on because it does and if you ask them, they'll tell you about it. Either that or they're all in a giant conspiracy to make things up. I hear about it from both of my kids and from whatever kids they're with.
Regarding 6th grade: there are about a half-dozen 6th graders that just do what they please.
There have been fights in the hallways. Lots of illicit cell phone use. Lots of disrespect to teachers, including cursing at teachers. Tons of profanity, period. This is all 6th grade. My kid is learning but it's not a serene environment. I can imagine it would
be difficult for a kid who is easily distracted or otherwise more sensitive.

In general DCPS does a crappy job with special needs kids. This isn’t a Deal problem but rather a DCPS problem in all schools. If your kid is in the faster-paced classes, there is less behavioral problems. My DC uses this as motivation to be on the honor roll every term.

Which faster paced classes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how many people whose kids with witnessing illegal or violent behavior are withdrawing your students.

None because other schools are worse, just that at Deal they pretend everything okay. I know of it, of parents who've made reports, and about 4 years ago teachers had a petition. Saying that for the majority of kids it is still okay as most of the troubled kids are in same classes, trouble occurs in hallways, after school, etc. Not sure about the Dean but at least thy now have one so was thinking problems are better than in the past. The other pressure is overcrowding...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard of teachers getting hit.

I don't believe that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kid was taken to the hospital. Lots of blood. My kid came home with the story.

So what's the story exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how many people whose kids with witnessing illegal or violent behavior are withdrawing your students.

I’m not. Most everything discussed, excluding the girl pushing the boy down the stairs—only because we didn’t have any, happened at my middle school. Pretty normal, IMHO. I think DC has a large number of pearl-clutching parents who want their kids to have some small town middle school experience. They just can’t deal with the reality that their children are attending a large urban middle school so they lash out at minorities, OOB, and poor kids. They have a chip on their shoulder that they can’t afford Sidwell or St. Albans/NCS.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid was taken to the hospital. Lots of blood. My kid came home with the story.

So what's the story exactly?

My dc said the boy was being annoying so the girl pushed him down the stairs. DC said the girl has pretty bad anger issues.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid was taken to the hospital. Lots of blood. My kid came home with the story.

So what's the story exactly?

My dc said the boy was being annoying so the girl pushed him down the stairs. DC said the girl has pretty bad anger issues.

Thanks.

This sounds like a police matter. Where they involved?