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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, it's been like that for decades...it's just more documented, shared on 24/7 social media, and overall parents being more sensitive about their snowflakes.

Grew up in FCPS - fights in the parking lot, weed in the bathrooms, jocks and jerks making fun of the nerds, class clowns and their school pranks, writings all over the bathroom stalls, and the list goes on.

It's nothing new...just a 21st century twist.[/quote]

I totally disagree. I’m the Cooper parent from above and had two older children attend.  There was a drug incident at Cooper a few years ago, but it was handled swiftly and the children were disciplined and counseled.

It feels now like ANYTHING goes. There are no clear expectations for behavior. One example - the kids are supposed to only get out of the cars in the carpool line at the official kiss and ride drop off. This was spelled out in several emails at the beginning of the year and is in place for obvious safety reasons. However,  plenty of parents now drop their kids off on Balls Hill Road instead of waiting in the carpool line.  The director of student services is out directing traffic in front of the schools and sees this going on every day.  What does he do?  He fist-bumps the kids who is  he just saw brake the rules. This in and of itself is not terrible and maybe it helps develop student-administration relationships, but I think it likely contributes to the general culture of rules going unenforced. Sometimes the SRO officer is even there in the cross walk and it makes no difference. [/quote]

NP here. I have a kid at Cooper and hear no terrible behavior stories at Cooper. And your carpool line story doesn’t sound like a very big deal. Are you seriously thinking the kid should be disciplined because the parent dropped off the kid in the wrong place? My kid normally rides the bus but he missed it recently and I drove him to school. He would have been late if I actually went in the carpool lane so I dropped him off at the church next door. It really was not that big of a deal.

At our old elementary school, there were always people dropping kids off on side streeets.[/quote]

Thank you... I was sort of confused as to why this is so much drama about dropping kids off not at specific location.  It's a residential area, you could live there and your kid could walk to school, or your kid could take public transit or a ride and walk a few blocks, what's a big deal?  I come from the city where kids commute to schools on their own, so this complaining is very weird to me[/quote]

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