How is bullying handled at Cooper or Longfellow?

[Anonymous]

Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

The rules put in place during the Obama administration make administrators fearful of suspending kids--particularly kids of color. That is a fact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

The rules put in place during the Obama administration make administrators fearful of suspending kids--particularly kids of color. That is a fact.

This is true - those rules need to change.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve had four years of experience at Longfellow and never heard of a bullying problem. We have a very high opinion of how Ms. Kihm runs the school.

I suspect there is one parent or child who keeps posting these extreme versions of how Longfellow is run.

I also find all these posts saying bullying happens because of the AAP program to be suspect.

x10000

I wonder if the non AAP posters (OP) are looking for trouble where there is none. Watch it, the admin knows who you are, seriously - they didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

We have had kids at both Longfellow and Cooper and have seen no bullying. If you do, then address it with your child, but don't go in to any school anticipating that there will be a problem, or you just might create one.

What a strange post!

The admin knows who the sh*t stirring moms are. You can quote this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve had four years of experience at Longfellow and never heard of a bullying problem. We have a very high opinion of how Ms. Kihm runs the school.

I suspect there is one parent or child who keeps posting these extreme versions of how Longfellow is run.

I also find all these posts saying bullying happens because of the AAP program to be suspect.

x10000

I wonder if the non AAP posters (OP) are looking for trouble where there is none. Watch it, the admin knows who you are, seriously - they didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

We have had kids at both Longfellow and Cooper and have seen no bullying. If you do, then address it with your child, but don't go in to any school anticipating that there will be a problem, or you just might create one.

Bullying ANYONE, including AAP students, is NOT tolerated.

What a strange post!

Agreed. Sounds like the PP wants everyone to think the AAP crowd runs the show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve had four years of experience at Longfellow and never heard of a bullying problem. We have a very high opinion of how Ms. Kihm runs the school.

I suspect there is one parent or child who keeps posting these extreme versions of how Longfellow is run.

I also find all these posts saying bullying happens because of the AAP program to be suspect.

x10000

I wonder if the non AAP posters (OP) are looking for trouble where there is none. Watch it, the admin knows who you are, seriously - they didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

We have had kids at both Longfellow and Cooper and have seen no bullying. If you do, then address it with your child, but don't go in to any school anticipating that there will be a problem, or you just might create one.

Bullying ANYONE, including AAP students, is NOT tolerated.

What a strange post!

Agreed. Sounds like the PP wants everyone to think the AAP crowd runs the show.

Resubmit:

Bullying ANYONE, including AAP students, is NOT tolerated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

You “don’t care what color someone is,” yet you made a point of highlighting the alleged bully’s race in your prior post. I’d bet there’s more to the story than either you know or are admitting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

You “don’t care what color someone is,” yet you made a point of highlighting the alleged bully’s race in your prior post. I’d bet there’s more to the story than either you know or are admitting.

Wrong, but nice try. I mentioned the bully’s race because it was an obvious part of the situation - the fact that she “took offense” at the other girl rapping to what the bully considered “her” music. If I hadn’t mentioned her race, the very first question would have been, “What race was she?”

Forgive me for laying out all the facts from this event up front. I know how people such as yourself analyze everything, manufacturing reasons to be offended.

And let’s be real here: there is no way a school system *wouldn’t* have expelled, or at the very least, suspended, any white student who had physically or emotionally bullied a black student. You can’t have it both ways.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

You “don’t care what color someone is,” yet you made a point of highlighting the alleged bully’s race in your prior post. I’d bet there’s more to the story than either you know or are admitting.

Wrong, but nice try. I mentioned the bully’s race because it was an obvious part of the situation - the fact that she “took offense” at the other girl rapping to what the bully considered “her” music. If I hadn’t mentioned her race, the very first question would have been, “What race was she?”

Forgive me for laying out all the facts from this event up front. I know how people such as yourself analyze everything, manufacturing reasons to be offended.

And let’s be real here: there is no way a school system *wouldn’t* have expelled, or at the very least, suspended, any white student who had physically or emotionally bullied a black student. You can’t have it both ways.

You’re as far removed from keeping it “real” as could possibly be. Like no one could have surmised the other student’s race (without your spelling it out to set up your racist claim that AA kids get preferential treatment, when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

You “don’t care what color someone is,” yet you made a point of highlighting the alleged bully’s race in your prior post. I’d bet there’s more to the story than either you know or are admitting.

Wrong, but nice try. I mentioned the bully’s race because it was an obvious part of the situation - the fact that she “took offense” at the other girl rapping to what the bully considered “her” music. If I hadn’t mentioned her race, the very first question would have been, “What race was she?”

Forgive me for laying out all the facts from this event up front. I know how people such as yourself analyze everything, manufacturing reasons to be offended.

And let’s be real here: there is no way a school system *wouldn’t* have expelled, or at the very least, suspended, any white student who had physically or emotionally bullied a black student. You can’t have it both ways.

You’re as far removed from keeping it “real” as could possibly be. Like no one could have surmised the other student’s race (without your spelling it out to set up your racist claim that AA kids get preferential treatment, when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary).

I'm not sure what this HUGE chip on your shoulder is about, but I simply stated the facts of the situation. Had I left out the students' races, it would have been the first question asked of me - probably by you, in fact. You're simply unable to look at this objectively and admit that any kid beating up another kid - regardless of their race, for crying out loud - deserves to be punished. But because the bully is black, you refuse to acknowledge that what she did constitutes bullying. It is clearly *you* who has the racist views here. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve had four years of experience at Longfellow and never heard of a bullying problem. We have a very high opinion of how Ms. Kihm runs the school.

I suspect there is one parent or child who keeps posting these extreme versions of how Longfellow is run.

I also find all these posts saying bullying happens because of the AAP program to be suspect.

x10000

I wonder if the non AAP posters (OP) are looking for trouble where there is none. Watch it, the admin knows who you are, seriously - they didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

We have had kids at both Longfellow and Cooper and have seen no bullying. If you do, then address it with your child, but don't go in to any school anticipating that there will be a problem, or you just might create one.

What a strange post!

Agreed. Sounds like the PP wants everyone to think the AAP crowd runs the show.

I'm not the PP, but I am a Cooper parent of non-AAP students (who have experience no bullying). I think what the PP was trying to say was that a person would be remiss to go into Cooper with assumptions about a particular group, else she would make a problem out of nothing. It's like walking in with a chip on your shoulder.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Truly disturbing if those events did occur at LMS as PP described.

This is not the norm at Longfellow by any stretch, and by PP’s one-sided account it lasted no more than a week. If you think it’s easy being an AA student at Longfellow (much less at Cooper, which had almost no AA students) you are missing the bigger picture.

I am the PP who described these events and they are absolutely true. I find it interesting that you seem willing to excuse the bully because it's not "easy" being an AA student at Longfellow. What an apologist you are. I don't care what color someone is - if they are slapping and punching another child, they need to be suspended and/or expelled. Stop making excuses.

You “don’t care what color someone is,” yet you made a point of highlighting the alleged bully’s race in your prior post. I’d bet there’s more to the story than either you know or are admitting.

Wrong, but nice try. I mentioned the bully’s race because it was an obvious part of the situation - the fact that she “took offense” at the other girl rapping to what the bully considered “her” music. If I hadn’t mentioned her race, the very first question would have been, “What race was she?”

Forgive me for laying out all the facts from this event up front. I know how people such as yourself analyze everything, manufacturing reasons to be offended.

And let’s be real here: there is no way a school system *wouldn’t* have expelled, or at the very least, suspended, any white student who had physically or emotionally bullied a black student. You can’t have it both ways.

You’re as far removed from keeping it “real” as could possibly be. Like no one could have surmised the other student’s race (without your spelling it out to set up your racist claim that AA kids get preferential treatment, when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary).

I'm not sure what this HUGE chip on your shoulder is about, but I simply stated the facts of the situation. Had I left out the students' races, it would have been the first question asked of me - probably by you, in fact. You're simply unable to look at this objectively and admit that any kid beating up another kid - regardless of their race, for crying out loud - deserves to be punished. But because the bully is black, you refuse to acknowledge that what she did constitutes bullying. It is clearly *you* who has the racist views here. Grow up.

Let's just say I'm highly skeptical that your account is accurate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DC went to Longfellow and experienced bullying. I think the bullying was cultivated by the aggressive, competitive nature of the students and a weak admin staff. The adults didn't punish the bullies, or hold their crappy parents accountable. So aggressive, mean kids can thrive there, weaker students may have the worst two years of their lives.

I have heard Cooper has less bullying and is more friendly, but there have been drug problems there. So neither school is perfect.

Cooper was considered “friendlier” when all its AAP kids were sent to Longfellow and Kilmer. The AAP kids in the Langley pyramid go to Cooper now, so Longfellow and Kilmer have lower enrollments and percentages of AAP students.

This is true, much of the bullying is within the AAP group and poor social skills and ahole parents that seem to go along with them.

+100

The AAP kids and the parents of AAP kids are the worst. They are the bane of FCPS schools.