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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have friends who have sent children to Argyle for the magnet.  The magnet classes are great.  The student population, however, is not great.  Getting the wrong teacher for a class can mean that your child is in a group that is completely out of control.  Phones out, videos being watched, even chairs being thrown instead of learning. Kids are physically harmed and threatened with worse if they report it in the locker room after gym class (where there is no adult supervision).  This is not an exaggeration. [/quote]

DP here.  Anonymous board, maybe we have the same friend, but I heard a strikingly similar story directly from the parent of an affected boy.  In the locker room, larger students were grabbing the 6th grader and squeezing him until 6th grader could not breathe.  Bigger problem was the nonresponse from the administration; 6th grader did not know attackers' names, so they would not do anything nor send male PE teacher into locker room to supervise.  in addition to physical bullying, there were problems in the classroom.  Yes, some dramatic like chairs being thrown.  Others less so, such as teachers purposely not calling on successful out of boundary students to "give others a chance" when participation was 10% of the grade.  [/quote]

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