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[quote=Anonymous]I understand the concept of questioning whether the kids might be exaggerating or something. However, I would believe 100% that all of this happened at Brent. DC, now gone from Brent, was repeatedly verbally sexually harrassed and the principal, who knew about it independently while I had no idea how bad it was, let it go on. Other kids were "jumped" on the playground. Some kids' ridiculous behavior went on for years, same behavior, same kids, without any improvement. Brent principal seems to be biased toward certain kids who can have really poor behaviors but he practically dotes on them. Other kids might be struggling with similar behaviors and they are held to higher standards.

DC is gone from Brent, partially because of that situation. From friends I know that such matters go on. Punching, throwing to ground, kids feeling nervous about what might happen with other kids. Some kids more seriously punished, others given a free pass. The Beh Tech is good, but there are too many problems and too many kids who need more full time support.

I say all this not to be critical of kids who need support learning how to control their emotions and behavior. Kids are kids and not all of them have the same abilities. I say it to say that if a kid isn't able to have that control, there should be help put in place for the other kids. Can't keep yourself from saying "suck my d---" to the girls at the cafeteria table? You sit at a different table away from the girls. Your child repeatedly swears the teacher in front of the whole class? Parent needs to come in to help put together a plan of action. Other kids don't want to hear their beloved teacher a mother f'in b on a regular basis.

Brent has a lot of wonderful things about it and other schools undoubtedly have similar issues, but there are too many instances of this and other kids suffer. I regret telling DC to ignore, move away, focus on friends, because I had no idea how bad it was actually. I should have probed more or asked the principal who apparently knew exactly what was going on![/quote]

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