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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same old.  There have been issues with SH kids brawling within a block of the school from time to time for decades.  No SH administration ever gets a handle on the situation.  
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Yes, but the rowdiness rises and falls over time.  I  live around the corner.  The brawling essentially stopped under the pre Covid head, the IB families-minded young guy who left for grad school at Harvard. [b]Apparently, he put an elaborate system in place to head off bad behavior outside the school and made it work.[/b]  Hobson kids all but stopped appearing in our back alley to hoop, holler, fight and toss trash from their snacks around. He must have read them the riot act.  Last year school year, after he'd left, was also quiet, due to DL.  Now we're seeing the brawling again.  I saw the fight, too.  Argh.[/quote]

Not really. My kid said previous principal's  authority ended at doorstep and kids had free reign off school grounds.  Current principal well liked and respected by parents, teachers and students.  Stuff like this is annoying but normal MS behavior.  See hyperventilating over similar Deal incidents on separate thread.[/quote]

Maybe your kid's right about the previous head.  We've lived across E St. from the school for more than 15 years, but don't know what goes on inside the building. I can tell you that I observed fewer brawls within a block of the school under the previous principle than before he was in charge.  Before he arrived, kids not only fought outside the building occasionally, but were known to be arrested on school grounds in the public eye.

The "annoying MS behavior" you describe just isn't good PR for SH with IB families.  After all the rowdiness I've seen on the part of SH kids over the years, I won't send my kids, who are in the upper grades at a Hill DCPS ES.  We're hoping they can attend a charter or parochial school where, to our knowledge, "normal MS behavior" doesn't include brawling in public. 
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