Sandburg MS Principal charged with assault after spanking a kid

[Anonymous]

!!!!!

WTF is going on at Sandberg???

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/va-middle-school-principal-charged-with-assault-over-spanking-allegations/2017/07/18/6faa96ae-6bc9-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_principal-1215pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.3dc3563b8c44

[Anonymous]

I can't imagine how he thought this was appropriate.

[Anonymous]

Lapse of judgement in this day and age. The student probably deserved it, however.

[Anonymous]

Illegal, yes, but I bet the kid deserved it. Can't fault the principal for doing SOMETHING.

[Anonymous]

I want to see something like this happen in a McLean or Langley feeder. The parents would be up there with torches and calling up the local news.

It's crazy. You don't touch students in an aggressive manner. Hell, you don't touch students period if you can avoid it.

I teach elsewhere, but lived in Belle Haven and heard awful things have Sandburg. I knew a lot of parents (from Belle View, Hollin Meadows, WayneWood, Fort Hunt, and Stratford landing who did elementary, pulled their kids out for private in middle school and then went back to public at West Potomac. It's got a strangely awful reputation in that community.

We chose to move from the area because of other reasons, but the middle school issue is something people talk about down there. Something's just wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Illegal, yes, but I bet the kid deserved it. Can't fault the principal for doing SOMETHING.

Yes. You can fault the principal for hitting a kid, which is illegal. Sure-- consequences might be warranted here, although we do not have all the facts. . Detention, sure. A sit down with parents, okay. Removal from extracurriculars. Even suspension, if this is not the first strike. But hitting a kid, no matter how annoying, or how severe their actions, is really terrible judgment. FCPS has a detailed discipline policy. Principals can and should do something. They can and should follow the consequences in the discipline policy.

Is this how ya'll run things in the Eastern County? Because if the Carson principal did this, the principal would have been suspended the next day. This was in April, and is just now coming out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Lapse of judgement in this day and age. The student probably deserved it, however.

No child ever deserves to be hit for refusing to pick up a piece of trash.

--a teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Illegal, yes, but I bet the kid deserved it. Can't fault the principal for doing SOMETHING.

Yes. You can fault the principal for hitting a kid, which is illegal. Sure-- consequences might be warranted here, although we do not have all the facts. . Detention, sure. A sit down with parents, okay. Removal from extracurriculars. Even suspension, if this is not the first strike. But hitting a kid, no matter how annoying, or how severe their actions, is really terrible judgment. FCPS has a detailed discipline policy. Principals can and should do something. They can and should follow the consequences in the discipline policy.

Is this how ya'll run things in the Eastern County? Because if the Carson principal did this, the principal would have been suspended the next day. This was in April, and is just now coming out.

Did you read the article?

The kid immediately reported it to a teacher who immediately initated the appropriate report and the principal was removed quickly. The incident happened months ago, but he hasn't been there for months and has long ago resigned. The legal system moved slower than the school system in this case.

[Anonymous]

Surprised this didn't make the news until now. PP is right. In the RRMS/Franklin/Carson feeder patterns, like Langley and McLean, this sh* t would have hit the fan. Bigly.

[Anonymous]

“I said, ‘Girl, if you don’t pick that up, I’m going to spank you.’

Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to see something like this happen in a McLean or Langley feeder. The parents would be up there with torches and calling up the local news.

It's crazy. You don't touch students in an aggressive manner. Hell, you don't touch students period if you can avoid it.

I teach elsewhere, but lived in Belle Haven and heard awful things have Sandburg. I knew a lot of parents (from Belle View, Hollin Meadows, WayneWood, Fort Hunt, and Stratford landing who did elementary, pulled their kids out for private in middle school and then went back to public at West Potomac. It's got a strangely awful reputation in that community.

We chose to move from the area because of other reasons, but the middle school issue is something people talk about down there. Something's just wrong.

If all of these UMC schools feed into Sandburg, why is it so bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to see something like this happen in a McLean or Langley feeder. The parents would be up there with torches and calling up the local news.

It's crazy. You don't touch students in an aggressive manner. Hell, you don't touch students period if you can avoid it.

I teach elsewhere, but lived in Belle Haven and heard awful things have Sandburg. I knew a lot of parents (from Belle View, Hollin Meadows, WayneWood, Fort Hunt, and Stratford landing who did elementary, pulled their kids out for private in middle school and then went back to public at West Potomac. It's got a strangely awful reputation in that community.

We chose to move from the area because of other reasons, but the middle school issue is something people talk about down there. Something's just wrong.

If all of these UMC schools feed into Sandburg, why is it so bad?

We'll, it certainly sounds like their tone at the top needed some work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Lapse of judgement in this day and age. The student probably deserved it, however.

No child ever deserves to be hit for refusing to pick up a piece of trash.

--a teacher

You're right that no student should be hit, however she definitely deserved it after talking back.

[Anonymous]

I went to Sandburg in the early 90s. It was terrible back then, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to see something like this happen in a McLean or Langley feeder. The parents would be up there with torches and calling up the local news.

It's crazy. You don't touch students in an aggressive manner. Hell, you don't touch students period if you can avoid it.

I teach elsewhere, but lived in Belle Haven and heard awful things have Sandburg. I knew a lot of parents (from Belle View, Hollin Meadows, WayneWood, Fort Hunt, and Stratford landing who did elementary, pulled their kids out for private in middle school and then went back to public at West Potomac. It's got a strangely awful reputation in that community.

We chose to move from the area because of other reasons, but the middle school issue is something people talk about down there. Something's just wrong.

If all of these UMC schools feed into Sandburg, why is it so bad?

PP here. Because an equal amount of struggling high poverty schools also feed into this school. It works at West Potomac, but for some reason it is a shit show in the middle school.