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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not live right across the street from SH, but a few blocks away. What I do know that that there is not one corner market within 6 blocks of SH that allows anyone under 18 in the store without a parent due to SH students. This is since 2020.

Earlier this week, I walked by the playground with my dog during what looked like gym class the other day - and there was a group of girls hanging on the fence, yelling at passers-by. Was I scared or worried? No. But the teacher in charge didn't care at all. The discipline problems are real.

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You are not qualified to comment on "discipline problems" based on disliking language from students on a playground at recess. Or groups of students using aggressive language outside the school. The girls on the playground also sometimes comment on me and my dog. Usually it's "your dog is cute, can you bring him over here." Sometimes there are small groups that are behaving like teens testing boundaries; those groups use louder more aggressive language to see what kind of reaction they get. Which is in my experience no different than any other MS environment. Except in this case it is black and brown faces and not white ones in the burbs wearing Gucci.

Teachers at all grades need to pick their battles. This is especially true of teachers at MS in areas with a mix of kids from all backgrounds. The idyllic behavior to which you and others seem to think the students and school should aspire is in some cases culturally biased and in most all cases not worth the battle when there are larger battles to fight. If you don't understand this then you don't work in or around public education.

And let me add, before some dimwit tries to equate loud kids on a playground with the bullying described by another poster...NOT THE SAME THING. Do not waste your time trying to equate the two.  [/quote]

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