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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at Carson and has not mentioned any fights. His friends have discussed fights, mainly between girls from the conversations I have overheard. This is no different than when I was in MS and HS. There were fights, plenty of them. I did not actually witness any but I knew kids were suspended for fighting and hurt in fights. Teens are hormonal, impulsive, and lacking tools to make good decisions. This was the case when we were teens and is the case today, even at the “good schools.”

I promise you that there have been more than 3 fights at Carson and every other MS this year. The email is telling you that other teens are not listening to teachers who are giving instructions while trying to break up or deal with the fight and that a big issue is kids trying to film the fight.

I would not be surprised if there are some teens who are asking their friends to film the fight because they think it wold be great tiktoc material. 
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There is a cadre of parents who want to protect the old reputation of Carson (gen of FCPS middle schools, TJ feeder) at any cost that they are unwilling to accept that it is simply no longer the case. You all pipe in any time someone dares to criticize. You know it is okay to demand better?[/quote]

I could care less about Carson’s reputation. My kid is having a great experience there and has not seen the fights and the like. He has friends who have. I know the age and that this is not abnormal. What is new is adding the videotaping of the fights because of cell phones. I don’t know where you went to MS and HS but fighting in school happens, this has always been the case, at schools in the US.

I wish that the schools would return to more discipline in all level of schools but schools changed what they were doing because people complained about who was being punished. Too many White, MC, and UMC were being let off with warnings and detentions, because parents challenged suspensions, while more minorities and poor kids were being suspended, because parents were less likely to challenge suspensions. The optics looked like crap so instead of suspending more White and rich kids, they stopped disciplining all kids. [/quote]

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