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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember seeing a documentary where fat teens talked about being bullied horribly. These kids were moved by their parents to a private school where they were helped with their weight loss at the same time they were being educated. All those kids said how much better things were for them, how much happier they were, how they had thought about suicide, but now saw a future ahead of them. They described a situational depression, and that type of depression is horrible when you feel trapped. And high school kids ARE trapped, in that if parents don't hear their concerns, if administrators don't hear their concerns, they feel hopeless.

My point, of course, is not about weight so please don't go there.  My point is that environment makes a huge difference, and we DO have choices for our kids. One can move them to another public school in the area, move them to private school, or home-school (there are large communities of home-schoolers, programs, social events, etc).

For me, as I've mentioned, my first son had a learning disability that would now be accommodated (i.e. kids can bring tablets, etc), but at the time, was not. Moving him to a school where the kids brought laptops daily made the problem disappear.  My daughter was just not happy in her public high school. After moving her, she's discovered that she loves a smaller, interactive environment where she has more influence and can get to know her teachers as people. She's choosing a college with that in mind.  My youngest simply got a taste for private over public, and that was it for him. He moved to the same school as my eldest child, and it's like he has always belonged there.

All three kids loved the public elementary. My daughter loved the public middle school, the same one my son hated.  Listening to the kids, understanding their needs and desires, made a huge difference.

Kids go through K-12 one time; why keep it miserable for them? Why allow administrators to do so? School boards? Politicians? As parents, it's our job to fight for what isn't working and sometimes, to know when to drop and punt.[/quote]

Yes, Linda, that's well said, but not everyone can afford three private school tuitions, and you never should have extrapolated to the extent you did based on your daughter's own personal experience to bash Langley, particularly over the past 10 days.  That was incredibly painful and distressing to people there at a time when what they most needed was love and support. [/quote]

You can change publics, yes?  I know people who have left Langley for Herndon, for McLean, and it's been a great change. We have talked on FB and I understand that your experience was lovely; but clearly it is NOT lovely for a lot of the other students at Langley, and other high-pressure schools across the nation, and if ADULTS don't hold other ADULTS accountable for their behavior, then nothing changes. What's painful and distressing to me is that two young lives were lost, and countless others across the nation are at risk. Love and compassion are grand things; so is action and change.[/quote]

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