Reply to Kenmore, Swanson, or private?

Forum Index » VA Public Schools other than FCPS

Reply to "Kenmore, Swanson, or private?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a fourth grader and are moving to a larger house. We are considering putting offers on one of two homes - one zoned for Kenmore and one zoned for Swanson. I've heard fairly negative things about both middle schools, for different reasons (Kenmore not being terribly rigorous and having a lot of fights, and Swanson being overcrowded with more bullying than the standard middle school). Interested in perspectives of those whose kids have attended both schools. We might just suck it up and pay for private but would prefer not to. [/quote]

Swanson’s old principal (Loft) is back and things are under control. The previous bullying incidents were highly publicized but it was mainly one student bully, who is no longer at the school. It’s a nice, walkable, community school that actually looks like that Hollywood image of the classic jr high school — red brick facade, green lawn out front. It’s a very old school building (roughly 85 years old) that has a lot of charm. The auditorium still has the stained wood paneling. It’s nice how students can walk to Swanson and patronize the shops in Westover Village.

Kenmore has a newer building and has the largest auditorium of all the APS schools. The arts focus there is popular and students would often transfer in for that program specifically. There was a highly publicized incident this year of a group of Kenmore students in a physical altercation with a Dorothy Hamm MS basketball player waiting for the bus at the bus stop. [/quote]

What was one bully doing that it got negative attention for the entire school? He (I'm assuming) must have been busy.[/quote]

PP is incorrect. The kids that bullied the child with autism are still there. The kid who brought a taser to to school is different, he is no longer there.[/quote]

I was thinking of the taser incident. By they time OP’s DC is in middle school any bullies still there should be long gone. [/quote]

Both incidents made the news. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics