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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is still the case.  Kids are required to go to a certain hallway and sit on the floor until the bell rings for the first "passing period" before 1st period.  Kids are still not allowed to just show up to teacher's classes or the Media Center without prior appointment/pass in the AM.

Also, "late lockouts" for lunch happen periodically.  From time to time throughout the year the principal and magnet coordinator decide that they are tired of kids arriving late to lunch, so they just lock the lunch doors when the bell rings and don't permit kids to come in unless they go back and get a pass from a teacher.  Of course, many times it is a cranky teacher who kept the kids late to begin with so, kids don't want to go back and get the pass.  Even if they do, more than half of lunch period is over.  For kids who don't buy lunch, they just find some sympathetic teacher's room to eat in or go to some unnoticed corner of school.  For me this typifies the arbitrary, aggressive and demeaning way the school is run.  No one inquires as to why the kids are late or thinks that maybe 3 minutes late to lunch isn't a disaster.  No one fixes the real problem -- which stems from teachers not letting kids out on time.

Other problems I hear repetitively from DC -- teachers who are very demeaning.  Just the other day one student asked when an assignment was due because kids in a similar class in another period had a different idea of the assignment details and due date.  The teacher's response to the child, "you have a tendency to remember every stupid thing that passes through your head."  Of course, a student wouldn't need to ask a question about an assignment if the teachers posted assignment details to Edline, which almost none do.

School teachers and administration focus on nit-picky unimportant details and miss the truly important stuff.  For example, last year during Slap Ass week, the principal's main response was to send an email which asked parents to tell their kids that some kids don't think it's funny.  The principal essentially treated pervasive acts of sexual harrassment as a 'joke'.

This is not even to mention the academic environment, which is also terrible.  The school has failed to make AYP in a number of categories for a number of years.

Please look at the many other threads on Eastern on DCUM for a more comprehensive set of [/quote]

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