Yorktown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ive heard many concerning things about Yorktown's hook up/party culture. If you have a student at YHS, has your child avoided that?

My child goes to school and comes home -- no parties, no friends, nothing on the weekends. It sucks, but maybe it's better than the hook up / party culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ive heard many concerning things about Yorktown's hook up/party culture. If you have a student at YHS, has your child avoided that?

My child goes to school and comes home -- no parties, no friends, nothing on the weekends. It sucks, but maybe it's better than the hook up / party culture.

Yikes, that's worrisome. There's a lot of grey area between no friends and hooking up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, where does Yorktown get this reputation?

https://wjla.com/news/crime/arlington-police-students-arrested-for-underage-drinking-while-playing-a-football-game

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dozens-of-teens-face-underage-alcohol-charges-after-party-in-arlington/2048270/

https://www.arlnow.com/2017/06/01/acpd-18-drug-arrests-on-public-school-grounds-this-year/

https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/440486/the-juuls-so-cool-kids-smoke-it-in-school

https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/police-investigate-incident-at-yorktown-high-school/

https://www.arlnow.com/2020/04/27/driver-charged-in-serious-crash-on-n-glebe-road/

These generally happened off-campus. The bigger problem is YHS admin that doesn't refer actual drug offenses to APD and things are swept under the rug.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ive heard many concerning things about Yorktown's hook up/party culture. If you have a student at YHS, has your child avoided that?

My child goes to school and comes home -- no parties, no friends, nothing on the weekends. It sucks, but maybe it's better than the hook up / party culture.

Yikes, that's worrisome. There's a lot of grey area between no friends and hooking up.

My kids are the same, at a different school. Perhaps we should "hook them up." they need social connections outside of school and home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's a big school. Some kids are partiers. Many are not. My Yorktown kid has lots of friends, is involved in activities, and doesn't drink or hookup at all. I don't think most of her friends do either. They do occasionally sneak off campus and go to the Harrison Shopping Center for coffee or lunch.l0

Ummm yeah sure...

I’m not pp, but why is that unbelievable to you?

I guess people who convince themselves that all high schoolers are skipping school to drink and hook up in the poison ivy aren’t really rational, so forget I asked.

Keep clutching those pearls and move along. You probably don't really know your high schooler(s).

NP These kind of broad brush statements make me laugh. Parents, by and large, do know their own kids. I guess because either you were one of those degenerate high school kids or your kid is one - you can’t imagine that there are kids that have good relationships with their parents and aren’t sneaking off to a strip of 5 trees to drink. It shows such ignorance. But my real guess is that you can’t afford Yorktown. Signed a HS that didn’t skip school but drank and smoked pot.

NP. We can afford Yorktown easily. We built a house very close to Yorktown a couple years ago. Our son (9th) goes to Wakefield on an AP Capstone transfer. He had no interest in Yorktown because of the culture there.