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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you elaborate on the violence you mentioned?[/quote]

I have had two kids in Eastern. It is so overcrowded that the narrow hallways and stairwells are so packed that kids get shoved and jostled. My first DD who went through Eastern literally fell and got stepped on by a crowd of kids coming out of the lunchroom. That was in part an administration problem because there were too few lunch periods. Lunch is the worst time; the supervision is entirely inadequate. Last year, my first DD's group at lunch had kids at another table winging milk cartons, pencils, etc. at them. No one got seriously hurt but the lunch supervisors and administration really did not address the situation adequately at the time.

My older DD started eating in the media center, and my younger DD goes there for lunch as well. Both loved/love the program, and wouldn't have changed their decisions to attend the program, but the overly-crowded facilities and the inadequate staffing/supervision really can cause problems. I think the current principal is much better than the previous one (Casey Crouse of Damascus scandal infamy) and has taken steps to ameliorate the situation, but there's only so much that he can do in light of a crowded and outdated building, inadequate staff resources, and the revisions to the disciplinary policy.[/quote]

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