Is your middle school a mess regarding behavior post-covid?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

Barely opened for the last month? DCUM loves to spin the truth. It was 3 months.

My ES age kids didn't go back until well into April. School is over in early June. How is that three months?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everywhere is a hot mess. This isn't an FCPS thing or a middle school thing. It's not about rich kids or poor kids. It's all across the country.

Yes and no. Not every school system kept kids out of buildings and left kids on their own to fend with distance learning as long as FCPS. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. No kids in middle school but definitely noticed freshmen in multiple HS this year who behaved like oversized 6th or 7th graders.

My sister and brother both teach in schools that only closed for a brief time (public school in Nevada, parochial school in Michigan) They are experiencing the same mental health/behavior issues there as we are here. And they are behind in academics. It's the stress of the pandemic wearing on, the constant rotation of teachers and students being out with covid, the shortages of teachers, the polarization of everything etc.

I wonder if it’s neurological or hormonal damage from COVID infections?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everywhere is a hot mess. This isn't an FCPS thing or a middle school thing. It's not about rich kids or poor kids. It's all across the country.

Yes and no. Not every school system kept kids out of buildings and left kids on their own to fend with distance learning as long as FCPS. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. No kids in middle school but definitely noticed freshmen in multiple HS this year who behaved like oversized 6th or 7th graders.

My sister and brother both teach in schools that only closed for a brief time (public school in Nevada, parochial school in Michigan) They are experiencing the same mental health/behavior issues there as we are here. And they are behind in academics. It's the stress of the pandemic wearing on, the constant rotation of teachers and students being out with covid, the shortages of teachers, the polarization of everything etc.

I wonder if it’s neurological or hormonal damage from COVID infections?

Everywhere closed for the last third of the spring 2020 school year. Then lots of things were closed down that summer. That alone is a HUGE disruption to learning and development for kids.
Our local school systems decided to double down on the damage and keep schools closed the next year. Our kids are much worse off, but that doesn't mean other kids aren't damaged as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where does FCPS dump the violent middle schoolers? Burke?

I work in an FCPS MS and I honestly don't know. We had a student who in April had to leave after many discpline issues (walking out of every class, etc.), problems with other students, criminal charges (assault on a bus), etc...now he is gone. Where to? I have no idea.

And this is the extreme. Most kids who skip class, intimidate others, blatantly disobey teachers, etc. are still there, putting on a show for all the other kids and taking up 98% of the attention so others can't learn.

[Anonymous]

The only alternative site for ES and MS is Burke School so that's where they all get dumped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only alternative site for ES and MS is Burke School so that's where they all get dumped.

There are CSS sites at some middle schools. That’s usually the first stop before Burke, unless it’s a serious or repeated offense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

Barely opened for the last month? DCUM loves to spin the truth. It was 3 months.

My ES age kids didn't go back until well into April. School is over in early June. How is that three months?

DP, My ES (6th grader) went back in March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

Barely opened for the last month? DCUM loves to spin the truth. It was 3 months.

My ES age kids didn't go back until well into April. School is over in early June. How is that three months?

DP, My ES (6th grader) went back in March.

Same. Mid-March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are we still blaming Covid for behavioral problems a year later?

My middle school kid is pretty moody. He stayed home for a year and went back to school last spring. He has been back in school for over a year. He is shy and socially awkward. Thirty years ago, I was also a shy, socially awkward, moody middle school student. There were plenty of bad kids at my middle school. They tried to be cool.

Of course. Schools were closed for over a year, then barely opened for the last month or so and just had the kids staring at screens in person. Now middle schoolers won't even take masks off their faces b/c they are afraid for people to see what they really look like.

Barely opened for the last month? DCUM loves to spin the truth. It was 3 months.

My ES age kids didn't go back until well into April. School is over in early June. How is that three months?

DP, My ES (6th grader) went back in March.

Same. Mid-March.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The only alternative site for ES and MS is Burke School so that's where they all get dumped.

There are CSS sites at some middle schools. That’s usually the first stop before Burke, unless it’s a serious or repeated offense.

No, CSS sites require students to have an IEP for certain categories (ED, ASD). They aren't for juvenile delinquents, necessarily.

[Anonymous]

Yes, ours went back March 16, for two days a week and continued no Monday instruction (constant all year) through the end of the school year. I'm sure those @ 20-ish ? days of in person school spent on laptops with a monitor made a huge difference for my now-7th grader. Life-changing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think part of the problem is the administration who seem intent on punishing small things but are leaving bigger things to fester.

How else can the woke political hacks running FCPS address the so-called problem of "disparate discipline"? Crack down on some groups while letting others get away with causing all sorts of problems. Gotta get those statistics right for equity! You get the school district you vote for.

[Anonymous]

Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

No, it's not a horrible age. It's a horrible school district.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let's face MS in FCPS is a holding pen. We don't know what to do with these not small children anymore, not really teens yet so let's dump them all together for 2 years. It's a horrible age.

No, it's not a horrible age. It's a horrible school district.

Oh please. You can blame FCPS for lots of things but MS kids acting like little sh7ts? Do you blame FCPS for the kids behaviors outside of school as well?
And yes, no other school districts have this issue!