Drugs at Hardy (?)

[Anonymous]

Why aren't the Instagram accounts shut down immediately, by the school, the parents, or if there are sexual statements about students, the police?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't the Instagram accounts shut down immediately, by the school, the parents, or if there are sexual statements about students, the police?

someone must have complained because some months ago the school sent out letters and put out statements that it’s not their responsibility to monitor kids behavior online and on social media. The pages aren’t overtly sexual so they wouldn’t involve police. They are mean, demeaning and immature but nothing that would trigger an Insta ban. One ranks kids against each other. It’ll compare kid A and kid B including a picture and it shows which kid got the highest vote. They do it for boys and girls and even teachers. These accounts are very common in the middle school world. Gossip pages too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our income distribution is way messed up (thanks to government policy!), but what do you want people who have made a lot of money to do? Not spend it because you don’t like confronting envy?

Oh sweetheart, is this what mommy told you? That people were just jealous?

Not envious in the least. It's about what is important to me and who I surround my kids with. It's about the choices people make and their values (and yes that includes how you choose to spend your money). Your assumption that everyone envies the rich is precisely why you are gross to be around and I'd prefer you weren't. You assume that everyone wants the upper NW life. I guess it would rock your world to imagine that others find meaning outside of their STUFF and your life ain't all that. You also seem to derive meaning from thinking that people envy the rich. PS...that life is not the default mode we're all wishing we had. Your mindset is what I don't like around me and my kids. Plus, that kind of thinking usually means y'all are just boring people.

Now we got kids running around here whose parents think it's normal to flippantly call a 250K salary a "charity case" at a DC private. You guys make me laugh. You might want to get out of your bubble every once in a while.

I’m the person you are responding to. We are far from rich and own 0 homes. I just don’t avoid rich people anymore than I avoid poor people. And I think everyone has a right to be welcomed in public schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our income distribution is way messed up (thanks to government policy!), but what do you want people who have made a lot of money to do? Not spend it because you don’t like confronting envy?

Oh sweetheart, is this what mommy told you? That people were just jealous?

Not envious in the least. It's about what is important to me and who I surround my kids with. It's about the choices people make and their values (and yes that includes how you choose to spend your money). Your assumption that everyone envies the rich is precisely why you are gross to be around and I'd prefer you weren't. You assume that everyone wants the upper NW life. I guess it would rock your world to imagine that others find meaning outside of their STUFF and your life ain't all that. You also seem to derive meaning from thinking that people envy the rich. PS...that life is not the default mode we're all wishing we had. Your mindset is what I don't like around me and my kids. Plus, that kind of thinking usually means y'all are just boring people.

Now we got kids running around here whose parents think it's normal to flippantly call a 250K salary a "charity case" at a DC private. You guys make me laugh. You might want to get out of your bubble every once in a while.

You chose your neighbors. Why?

[Anonymous]

It’s well known that the richest kids do the worst things

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s well known that the richest kids do the worst things

Sure. Let’s continue with the stereotypes. Both poor and rich kids may have issues.

So much bitterness and anti-wealth vitriol in this thread, as if that’s the root of all evil. If that was the case, the poorest wards would be heaven. Why do you even want to come to Ward 3 schools then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is parents don't take this problem seriously 😒and the kids with a parent like you vaping and use drugs anywhere is without consequences. 🙄

But it is the parents like OP who are naive & idealistic whose kids are the ones flying under the radar and doing drugs because the parent is naive.

I fully expect there is drug use at all middle schools and high schools including my kids because that was the case 30-40 years ago when I was in school.

And I fully expect some among the crowd my kids are in will experiment, possibly including my own kids, because I and many others did at the same age.

Having said that in net my guess is that there is a lot less drinking (which concerns me a lot more than pot smoking) and drug use than when I was growing up.

Sorry to break it to you, but you must have been in a TERRIBLE school. Yes some kids were smoking weed and doing harder drugs in maybe 10th-12th grade in the 90s, but MIDDLE SCHOOL? Before they're even a TEENAGER? Maybe that happened in middle school in like, the projects, but that's about it

Doggywhistle alert.

DP: This happened at my blue ribbon suburban middle school.

Was going to post the same thing. I was one of the bored wealthy kids at my wealthy suburban middle school smoking pot and drinking beer in 7th grade.

[Anonymous]

I went to private school for 1 year in 9th grade. That’s where the good drugs were. My public school experience was kids stealing booze from parents and occasionally smoking pot. But that 9th grade year was when I had access via my gated community friends to LSD, coke, etc. do not underestimate lack of supervision + financial resources and a sense of entitlement as a catalyst for bad behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Our income distribution is way messed up (thanks to government policy!), but what do you want people who have made a lot of money to do? Not spend it because you don’t like confronting envy?

Bravo some people don't not their kids at all
And the problem here is the school is acting like it noting is happening. Why???

Oh sweetheart, is this what mommy told you? That people were just jealous?

Not envious in the least. It's about what is important to me and who I surround my kids with. It's about the choices people make and their values (and yes that includes how you choose to spend your money). Your assumption that everyone envies the rich is precisely why you are gross to be around and I'd prefer you weren't. You assume that everyone wants the upper NW life. I guess it would rock your world to imagine that others find meaning outside of their STUFF and your life ain't all that. You also seem to derive meaning from thinking that people envy the rich. PS...that life is not the default mode we're all wishing we had. Your mindset is what I don't like around me and my kids. Plus, that kind of thinking usually means y'all are just boring people.

Now we got kids running around here whose parents think it's normal to flippantly call a 250K salary a "charity case" at a DC private. You guys make me laugh. You might want to get out of your bubble every once in a while.

You chose your neighbors. Why?

[Anonymous]

There is a difference between kids smoking in drinking while middle school-age and smoking/drinking *at* middle school. A lot of us were exposed to the former; fewer of us were exposed to the latter.

A well-run school doesn’t have an ongoing problem *at* the school.

Maybe the barriers to suspension and expulsion are the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a difference between kids smoking in drinking while middle school-age and smoking/drinking *at* middle school. A lot of us were exposed to the former; fewer of us were exposed to the latter.

A well-run school doesn’t have an ongoing problem *at* the school.

Maybe the barriers to suspension and expulsion are the problem?

It seems perhaps difficult to prove which kids are involved and what they swallowed. The chewables are small. Apparently they are taking several at a time but it is easy to do this discretely

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a difference between kids smoking in drinking while middle school-age and smoking/drinking *at* middle school. A lot of us were exposed to the former; fewer of us were exposed to the latter.

A well-run school doesn’t have an ongoing problem *at* the school.

Maybe the barriers to suspension and expulsion are the problem?

I cant believe some of you live your life this way

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Today my kid came back home saying that their going to be testing kids if they use drugs. Unbelievable. These issues are getting worse. Why parents who care can get together and open an investigation vaping, shoplifting ,graffiti and now drugs .

Please stop trolling and go do your homework.

Lol. Is this the non- English speaker PP was referring to? Your post makes zero sense, so I’m assume English is not your first language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They also 7graders . Is this group of privilege girls at the School and they catch one of them shoplifting at Safeway.
Where are the parents of this kids ???

Jes*s Chr*st. Can you write in English, please?

[Anonymous]

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I have no idea how many Uber rich kids go to DCPS but at Hardy there are a handful and most kids know who they are. One family flies a private jet and owns 3-4 houses. Apart from this family there are several others who own houses in the Palisades/Foxhall along with one other summer/beach house.

Oh my God, homeowners who have a beach house? In MY public school? Heaven forfend. I don't want my kids having anything to do with such wealth. What if our families became friends and they invited us to the beach? We might catch rich.

Spoken like a classic clueless DC elite who completely downplays and dismisses the ridiculous and excessive amounts of (generational) wealth it takes to own both a multimillion dollar house in the Palisades as well as another in OBX or wherever else it is y’all hang. It’s funny how you think we WANT to hang out with you at your beach house. Lol. No thanks. Im good slumming it at the weekly rental condo in Ocean City.

Meh. They still can’t afford private so not really wealthy- just over-spenders. Truly wealthy families do NOT send their kids to DCPS. No way, no how.