Reading Langley HS Student Twitter accounts, drugs, F bombs, partying, middle finger pictures

[Anonymous]

I was reading the twitter of some of the langley students who were showing their support for the recent suicides and was shocked by the blatant cursing, drug / drinking talk and suggestive pictures. There are also tons of suggestive photos and selfies of flicking people off etc...

Is this the norm nowadays?

Do parents feel this is the way kids express themselves and it's ok?

What will future employers think?

As a owner of a company I am wondering if you just ignore high school years because it's so public?

In my past I would never post anything online or publically but facebook and twitter weren't around.

[Anonymous]

As an employer I always check fb and twitter accts of potential employees.

More than one promising resume was filed in the garbage due to an inappropriate cover photo or tweet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an employer I always check fb and twitter accts of potential employees.

More than one promising resume was filed in the garbage due to an inappropriate cover photo or tweet.

Soon, you doing that will probably be considered illegal due to some sort of violation of whatever right one wants to make up as the flavor of the day. Me? I think you are correct in doing so as it helps you determine character.

Wait for it though - your behavior will be the behavior that's considered inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

[Anonymous]

Kids will be kids, but parents need to counsel them on privacy and security. If the Langley kids' accounts were protected, you'd kept your blissful ignorance.
I am not too worried about their future employment, parents will find cushy jobs for this bunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was reading the twitter of some of the langley students who were showing their support for the recent suicides and was shocked by the blatant cursing, drug / drinking talk and suggestive pictures. There are also tons of suggestive photos and selfies of flicking people off etc...

Is this the norm nowadays?

Do parents feel this is the way kids express themselves and it's ok?

What will future employers think?

As a owner of a company I am wondering if you just ignore high school years because it's so public?

In my past I would never post anything online or publically but facebook and twitter weren't around.

sadly, I've seen this even with middle school kids. And these are well off kids from good families.

[Anonymous]

With all the social outlets, Facebook, instagram, twitter, it's all out there for everyone to see. Across the country, in every town and high school. Not isolated to Northern VA or any one school. That's just the facebook sites you were snooping through.

[Anonymous]

Breaking news: students at Langley are teenagers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Which school are you at now? And which school was it that you went to? Those are definitely considerations for where I want my kids to grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Some people like to make it sound like the porridge is just the right temperature at their school, and that the porridge at other schools is either too hot/too rich or too cold/too poor.

It would be a shame if someone decides to use a tragedy at an area school as the pretext to lobby for their own neighborhood or embue their own schools with characteristics that they may not really possess.

[Anonymous]

Overall langley is rich, smart and genius students with little common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Some people like to make it sound like the porridge is just the right temperature at their school, and that the porridge at other schools is either too hot/too rich or too cold/too poor.

It would be a shame if someone decides to use a tragedy at an area school as the pretext to lobby for their own neighborhood or embue their own schools with characteristics that they may not really possess.

+100 I'd love to see the school that is actually "perfect". It doesn't exist.

[Anonymous]

Can you provide the link you are viewing? At #SaxonStrong all I am seeing is some realy nice but sad kids expressing condolences for two lost classmates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you provide the link you are viewing? At #SaxonStrong all I am seeing is some realy nice but sad kids expressing condolences for two lost classmates?

That isn't appropriate, but go to #SaxonStrong your self and click through some of the twitter accounts of the students.

[Anonymous]

This thread is sort of merging with the suicide thread.
First, whatever your kid puts out on the Internet, they will learn, both good and bad, what that entails. Pictures of a kid drinking,smoking, fake ID usage, etc = goodbye scholarships, goodbye possible govt security work, and having any job possibly taken away. Kids are kids, and they make mistakes. Parents need to be parents.

Next, what occurred at Langley isn't a function or by-product of wealth, higher society status, etc. As for poster 10:14, you went to a "white" school. I wonder how you define that? What about privileged? So, you took your kids to a more "diverse" school. Yet, your own words imply that wealth and economic success results in parent apathy, zero supervision, etc. So, will you ban your kids from getting college degrees? Because there is a very high correlation between education and economic success. Or will they just be compassionate enough to not become arrogrant, because of the way you taught them? Nice social engineering.