Silver Creek Incident with Edibles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when kids are not challenged or have no standards or high expectations or expectations of decency. If there are no real world consequences kids have no motivation to do the right thing just because it's the right thing. That is higher level thinking but to get there you must master lower level thinking which is more focused around consequences.

Does anyone even train kids on proper expected behavior or what is the right thing?

Yes the people/place doing the training is school. Hence why you see all the behaviors.

Your kids spend far more time with you than they do at school. Why aren’t you training them how you want them to behave even when you aren’t around? Do you model integrity for them as you move through society as a family?

If your kids spend more time at school than with you, your parenting is still the problem. Cut back on Orange Theory and Fabrasy Football and do the difficult work of guiding your child’s development of ethics.

[Anonymous]

I have a 10th grader at BCC who went to Silver Creek and a current 6th grader at Silver Creek. From talking to friends with kids at other MCPS middle schools, I think Silver Creek is doing better than most in terms of fights, drugs, etc. I disagree with the OP that the administration doesn’t take this stuff seriously. The comment about roughhousing was made at a 6th grade parent town hall about what they’re seeing among 6th graders in the hallways and they were addressing it. They had the counselors visit 6th grade classes to talk to the kids about keeping their hands to themselves, etc. That was not a comment in the context of an actual fight. The student who was the agressor in the fight the OP mentioned has been suspended and I’m sure Dr. Awkard will be willing to answer questions about any steps the school is taking to prevent future fights at tomorrow’s principal’s coffee. She is actually very open and accessible to the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when kids are not challenged or have no standards or high expectations or expectations of decency. If there are no real world consequences kids have no motivation to do the right thing just because it's the right thing. That is higher level thinking but to get there you must master lower level thinking which is more focused around consequences.

THIS

It starts in elementary school in MCPS. Kids learn early that they won’t get in trouble and that they can behave poorly without consequence. It just gets worse in MS.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter if the kids eating edibles are rich or poor. It doesn’t matter if they are challenged or not challenged at school. It doesn’t matter if they have a supportive home environment or not. All middle school kids are vulnerable to making a dumb decision, and all of us have to work together to educate them, hold them accountable for mistakes and do our best to support them so they don’t make the kind of dumb decision that can kill them. If you’re an involved parent yourself, please consider taking special interest in a child who has uninvolved parents or a struggling single parent or no parents at all rather than wishing they weren’t your kid’s classmate or screaming into the wilderness here. Let’s all do our part instead of blaming “bad” parents or blaming the school. We don’t know anyone else’s backstory, and we are talking about 12, 13 year olds kids who need adults to be adults and care about them and help them make good choices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Low-income
(27% of students)

So much lower than the median for MCPS...

W schools are lower

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sit in on your children's classes! I can not express this enough, as a teacher and a parent. As a parent, I sit in on my childrens classes. I want to know my childs teacher and how their teaching style. I want to know what engagement and participation looks like. I want to know what classroom management look likes. I want to know if there are disturbances in the class, beyond the teachers control, that would disrupt my childs learning process. I want to observe any other students behavior issues that could impact my childs education. As a teacher, I welcome parents in my classroom. Come see how your child interacts in my class, other classes, their transitions, how their social interactions with peers look, how engaged they are, their behavior, how I run the classroom, etc. Come see the fights that break out and how I have to protect the other kids. I welcome you to go complain because my complaints are not enough. Come see the behavior child that chucks pencils and scissors across the room and I am just told that I must remove those from the classroom. Come see the students that fill my classroom with the smell of weed and I can not do a thing but open the window. Stop relying on what the kids have to say when they go home. When you observe it, witness and document it, then will admin be forced to intervene.

Is this a thing that's possible? Sitting in on classes to witness what's going on? Sounds like a great idea...