Fighting in Middle School

[Anonymous]

Another fight at Hardy middle school this morning. Is this the norm for DCPS middle schools? Hardy seems to have students fighting each other on a weekly basis. How does a school go about fixing this problem? I realize you probably can't force the offending kids to leave.

[Anonymous]

My wealthy suburban Michigan middle and high schools (public) both had kids fighting a few times a month. It happens.

[Anonymous]

This is an adolescence problem, not a DCPS problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an adolescence problem, not a DCPS problem.

+1,000,000. Why is this so hard to understand?

[Anonymous]

We had a lot of fights back in a day in SU. We even had 2 brothers fight each other who usually had each others backs. Most fights were right around middle school.
No, we were not bad kids. Not sure why we ran out of words suddenly and needed to use hands. Didn't happen in high school though or even in elementary school.
Why are you picking on Hardy? I'd say it happens in any middle school.
You expect Hardy to fix a problem that happens in almost every middle school? I'm sure they are going to sit down and talk about it.
Our teachers hardly got involved, because both parties kept quiet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an adolescence problem, not a DCPS problem.

+1,000,000. Why is this so hard to understand?

Exactly! OP is weird. Were you home schooled?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a lot of fights back in a day in SU. We even had 2 brothers fight each other who usually had each others backs. Most fights were right around middle school.
No, we were not bad kids. Not sure why we ran out of words suddenly and needed to use hands. Didn't happen in high school though or even in elementary school.
Why are you picking on Hardy? I'd say it happens in any middle school.
You expect Hardy to fix a problem that happens in almost every middle school? I'm sure they are going to sit down and talk about it.
Our teachers hardly got involved, because both parties kept quiet.

Hormones / puberty make it harder to regulate emotions.

[Anonymous]

Local Middle School: Boys fighting; girls gossiping.

News at 11!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had a lot of fights back in a day in SU. We even had 2 brothers fight each other who usually had each others backs. Most fights were right around middle school.
No, we were not bad kids. Not sure why we ran out of words suddenly and needed to use hands. Didn't happen in high school though or even in elementary school.
Why are you picking on Hardy? I'd say it happens in any middle school.
You expect Hardy to fix a problem that happens in almost every middle school? I'm sure they are going to sit down and talk about it.
Our teachers hardly got involved, because both parties kept quiet.

Curious, what is SU?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My wealthy suburban Michigan middle and high schools (public) both had kids fighting a few times a month. It happens.

Uh ... mine most definitely did not. Kids would get expelled for that shiz.

[Anonymous]

C'mon -- I thought everyone read Wonder?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is an adolescence problem, not a DCPS problem.

+1,000,000. Why is this so hard to understand?

Exactly! OP is weird. Were you home schooled?!

Lol!!

[Anonymous]

Fists? Happens everywhere. Weapons? Seems to be a logger problem in DC. I suspect you need to focus on reducing both types to reduce the latter, but it is really only the latter that I find very concerning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fists? Happens everywhere. Weapons? Seems to be a logger problem in DC. I suspect you need to focus on reducing both types to reduce the latter, but it is really only the latter that I find very concerning.

Where did it say that the fighting at Hardy or the other thread on Stuart-Hobson say anything about weapons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fists? Happens everywhere. Weapons? Seems to be a logger problem in DC. I suspect you need to focus on reducing both types to reduce the latter, but it is really only the latter that I find very concerning.

Are you a charter school advocate?
Six years ago at this time we were reading these same type of posts on DCUM and elsewhere as a new HRCS was trying attract Hardy inbound students.