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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be true, but I also think it’s a cop out. I have 2 elementary boys. They are both kind, respectful and would never behave that way even at their craziest. Neither would their friends. 95 percent of their class is the same. So why does the 5 percent (or less) get to ruin it for everyone? It seems like “the pandemic was so hard” is the new “boys will be boys”. Throw up your hands and shake your head. I call BS. [/quote]

Maybe those kids were abused while home for the past year and away from school. Maybe they lost a patent or other relative to COVID. Maybe a caregiver lost a job and the child went to bed hungry and is now facing eviction. So many kids have experienced real trauma leaving deep scars over the past year.

Be grateful your kids are not among them.[/quote]

Yeah, no. I know some kids who are acting out. We are in what DCUM terms a “nice neighborhood”, highly desirable school pyramid with two parent families who have been teleworking the entire time. Possibly they went to bed hungry in their $1.5 million dollar house, but I highly doubt it. Conversations with their parents have been on how hard it is for their boys not to do sports. They are literally in the Arlington pipeline to become UMC entitled white males. Using this excuse for them minimizes the actual trauma other children have experienced.[/quote]

There are no highly desirable school pyramids in Arlington.[/quote]

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