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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 think Covid is responsible for some of the most recent particularly egregious behavior problems. Kids sat at home on screens for a long time and got (even more) addicted to technology and didn’t have the consistency of school/rules/expectations.

I don’t want to turn this into a union or parent or teacher bashing thread, I just wanted to point out that I believe recent horribleness can be tied to the large scale interruption of learning for public school kids.

At the high school level, I think the legalization of weed (and the narrative of adults saying they use weed to help with their own adhd, and the general normalizing of weed use across the board) is driving the growth in the number of students who come to school high every day, or get high in the bathrooms in the day.

Covid + weed legalization + screen addiction = the present sorry state of many MCPS high school students

(Still think MCPS is doing generally ok, still send my kids there, and still think a churchhill-like attitude is right… it’s better than the alternative!) [/quote]

I think parents like you find all kinds of ways to rationalize this when it's a combination of the parents and kids.  Weed is legal in the state but not the federal level and you need a prescription for it.  Parents like you re 100% the problem.[/quote]

So you DO want to make this into parent bashing. Got it. I don’t. Again, I think it’s a lot of things- an unholy mix of Covid + screen addiction + legalization of weed. At least one teacher above agreed with me…[/quote]

Another Mcps educator who completely agrees[/quote]

Again, parents and teachers are allowing this behavior.  It’s not screen addiction.  Kids are bored, so they turn to screens.  Older teens don’t drive and it’s easier to chat online than meet up.  Parents aren’t monitoring and supporting their kids and don’t give consequences for bad behavior.  Parents allow weed in their homes.  Weed had always been here.  It’s not nothing new.  None of this is.  [/quote]

The kids are absolutely addicted. They are no more bored than they ever were. It’s hard to compete with The Internet/Social Media when it’s at their fingertips and their brains have been wired up (since Covid) to need that dopamine hit more and more. Lots of kids smoke weed out/with friends/in school bathrooms whose parents wouldn’t let them smoke at home. There is indeed a different landscape around weed in the last few years. Parents and teachers are just as good (and sometimes bad) as they ever were. Bashing them is so unproductive. I would argue that our schools need to have stiffer rules around the phones, but with all the school shootings (again, another larger cultural factor at play) parents and teens justifiably would say they need them to be safe. So, I’ll add gun violence to my unholy equation here-

Covid + screen addiction + weed legalization + gun violence = public school mess.

And still.

I’d choose it over the alternative. [/quote]

So, then limit your child's social media and here's an idea, set a good example and get off social media.  It's funny that you are complaining online about social media.  Think about it.

We need security, metal and other detectors, and consequences at school and home for bad behavior.

My kids don't have much time for social media or drugs as we have them in lots of activities and spend time as a family and they are teens.  Why aren't you doing the same?[/quote]

These are among the dumbest ideas I've seen.  Metal detectors won't solve anything and the problem isn't social media. You people need to look in the mirror sometime.[/quote]

What do you propose?   What everyone is doing now is not working. [/quote]
dp... phone pouches for a start. They are being implemented all over the country.

And I don't have a phone addiction, neither does DH.  We rarely look at our phones.  DH doesn't even have a social media account. I only have FB because the activities my kids are involved in communicate via FB, which I hate.

We never allow phones at the dinner table. Still, my kids are addicted to their phones.  They walk around everywhere with the phone in their hands.. bathroom, doing chores, ... They text us when they need pickup, but we've told them that unlike them, we don't have the phones glued to our hands, so if they need a pickup, they need to call. We can hear the phone ringing but  not the text notification.
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