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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can uninvolved kids manage to stay out of the fray?[/quote]

No because many of the halls are so narrow they get caught[/quote]

Is this true? This sounds terrible. My kid who’s at Hardy claims the fights are only between the kids who like to fight and seems pretty unbothered by them.

But I hope this is an exaggeration regarding Deal.  [/quote]

I think so.  My 8th grader has never been touched by a fight. I'm not saying others haven't been jostled or worse - I don't know.  But my kid has without trying has "managed to stay out of the fray."

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my post was missing a crucial "don't."  I [b]don't[/b] think it's true that kids can't stay out of the way of the fights.  Mine has without trying.  But I agree the school has discipline issues. There seems to be a lot of skipping class going on. Kids skip and go to classes where there is a substitute or to gym class where they can blend in with friends.  Or they roam the halls avoiding adults.  It shocks me a bit that this is a regular occurrence in middle school by a subset of kids. [/quote]

Any school with that many kids stuffed into it will have discipline issues, and to pretend that it shouldn't is ignoring reality. Doesn't matter where it's located (urban or suburban), doesn't matter what the school's socioeconomic makeup is, you're going to have discipline issues with that many middle-school kids on one campus. And from the times I've had to pick up my kid early from Deal, the admins/security personnel are *very* strict about kids roaming the hallways after the bell. [/quote]

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