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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem at the school is that the principal is not honest. It was not just a steak knife.  It was a sharp, straight edge, knife. Another student’s life was threatened if he told.  Fortunately, older kids saw the knife and told the teacher. . [/quote]

I also have child in the school and would like to know more. Was the kid in the immersion program? I saw the police in the school and nothing was done to warn the school. There was a STEAM fair going on so there were lots o f parents inside the school presenting.

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A couple of things:

1) They will never tell you whether it was an immersion kid or an Academy kid, nor should they.

2) There was no threat once the knife was confiscated. I don't think it would have made sense to disrupt the STEAM fair to say that a thing happened and was over, coming from the perspective of someone at another school.

3) There is an open question about why this is all happening at SCES this year. If PP is to be believed, this is a different kid than the one creating chaos earlier in the year. SCES is not a school that usually has multiple highly disruptive violent kids. I do have a theory, but I'd be curious to hear from the "insider" on this thread about where these kids are coming from. Are they coming in from other schools?

I ask because the school where I work is the "twinned" school to a dual immersion program. When this was rolled out five years ago, we were told that we would receive kids who couldn't access the bilingual curriculum due to learning differences. However, we're actually receiving kids who can't access the curriculum because they are extremely violent. Since SC shares a middle school with a dual immersion program, part of me wonders if that's happening there as well. [/quote]

Interesting theory, but SCES is not a "dual immersion" program with a "bilingual curriculum."  The French immersion program is full French immersion.  There is no English (except for specials, and except for English reading starting in 4th grade).  So this probably has no relevance to your example.

And yes, the earlier issue in the thread involved a K student and the recent issue with the steak knife that was allegedly a butcher knife was a 2nd grader.  BTW, there may be other incidents not mentioned on this thread but those two specifically were in the Academy program.  Just troubled kids who obviously need more/different interventions than the school can provide.  But there is nothing unique about SCES.  
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Just to be clear, the theory was not that Sligo Creek was dual immersion. It was that Rolling Terrace is dual immersion and paired with Sligo Creek in the sense that both articulate to Silver Spring Middle School. If it's anything like my school, they are shunting kids over to the English program because they weren't successful in dual immersion, but the issue isn't actually learning differences, it's violence. [/quote]

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