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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have some friends whose kids go to Woodson. They've told me that the environment there is like a pressure cooker. [b]Because the school is known for its high test scores, it's ingrained in the culture that it is very important that it be maintained. [/b]Test scores are everything. [/quote]

That doesn't stand up to the logic test.  If that were true, then schools like Langley, McLean, Madison, Oakton and others in the DMV area would also have a lot of suicides... but as far as I know, they don't.  Something is going on.  I suspect that when it happens once, there is a sense that it's a possibility for other kids.  But, something needs to be done.  [/quote]

It's not just because they have a good test record. According to the students I've spoken with, it's the over the top culture of perfectionism and lofty standards, [b]specific to Woodson's administration. [/b][/quote]

I do not doubt this. My daughter was brought to near emotional collapse at another FFX Cty school due to what she called, her inability to please staff and impossibly high standards. No matter what she did, no matter how high her grades were (and she was a straight A student), she felt as if they wanted her to do more and more and more. The administration of these high schools care only about their numbers it seems.[/quote]
Agree.[/quote]

No tragedy fails to bring out Bullis Mom and her gripes against Langley, based on her daughter's one year there (which was five or six years ago).  Sigh. [/quote]
Stop. Just stop.[/quote]

No.  It's Bullis Mom who needs to stop trying to make everything about her.  That act - which centers around spreading a narrative about Langley that no one else with kids there recognized - got tired years ago and has not aged well. [/quote]

It's not about me, you moron. When I see yet another area child has taken his life, it breaks my heart in a million pieces. And if I can do something to help, I damn well will. SO STFU.[/quote]

Not the PP, but it is most certainly "about you," or at least, you'd like it to be.  You're like an ambulance chaser.  As soon as you sniff out the word "suicide," you're off and running on DCUM, telling whomever will bother to listen to you that these kids took their lives because of "school pressure."  You clearly don't have the slightest inkling of what causes clinical depression and the myriad reasons someone might choose to take their life.  Newsflash:  IT ISN'T ALL ABOUT SCHOOL.  Those with mental illnesses find it difficult and often impossible to climb out of their blackness, and school pressure certainly adds to that.  But you do realize teenaged suicides occur everywhere, right?  Not just in our little DC area bubble.  Mental illness is the cause - you can't possibly simplify it down to "school pressure."  There's so much more to it than that, and to act like you and you alone are on some sort of perverted crusade to "save" these kids from depression is the height of hubris.  Your kid had a bad experience (though it sounds completely exaggerated and made up, FYI).  Stop extrapolating her experience onto the lives of thousands of other kids - most of whom handle stress in vastly different ways than the few who decide to take their lives.

Do some reading on mental health.  And stop posting about your one-off experience as if teenage angst somehow equals depression.  You're incredibly tiresome.[/quote]

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