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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid at a region 4 school said there are fights pretty much daily, usually with circles of kids filming them. Also that teachers close off bathrooms to prevent vaping, which makes it difficult when the bathroom closest to a classroom isn't open.

Instead of saying "these schools are good, these schools are bad," I think every parent needs to accept that violence can happen at any school at any time.

That's why the metal detectors are being implmented. [/quote]

Some 200 fights each year at your region 4 high school being filmed and posted on social media daily by students?

Sorry, but that is not happening.[/quote]

PP is definitely exaggerating. But by your same logic it's also not true then that schools like Justice and Herndon are full of overt violence and drugs, because if they were we'd be seeing it all on social media very frequently. And that's clearly not the case for any FCPS school despite the constant accusations of violent gangs at specific pyramids. [/quote]

I totally agree.

If you saw my other posts, I clearly said while there is lots of vapung in tge bathrooms and also drug use at all tge high schools, tgere is no way there are daily fights, or even 5 or 10% of students, certainly not 20-30% of students, engaged in fighting and violence at school, not even at the so called "bad" schools like Mount Vernon, Justice, Herndon or Lewis.

School violence to that magnitude is just not happening.

The kids would be filming, posting and live streaming that stuff in real time.  It would be clear anarchy if hundreds or close to 1000 students at the large high schools were engaging in that behavior.

I would even say that 5-10% of students are not cutting classes and wandering around the schools each day.  Again, that would be hundreds of students.

Vaping in the bathrooms? Sure.  There are easily hundreds of kids doing that at all the schools everywhere, even the "good" high schools.

But the schools are not as violent as those posters are claiming, and the violent kids are a small group that should be removed from the high schools and sent to bryant.

That would do more to keep students safe than the very performative metal detectors.[/quote]

I also suspect that if you had a frank and honest discussion with the teachers, admin, counselors and other students, in 99% of the fights, no one is shocked by the kids involved.[/quote]

It’s usually the Hispanic kids.[/quote]

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