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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you mean kids get bullied or beat up, or what’s happening at Eastern?[/quote]
The lunch room is a shit show. My child has not experienced bullies but definitely steers clear of certain groups of people. For example she says she approached a lunch table and was told to “get the F—-away”. I’m sure it happens at all middle schools, but IMO it’s worse at Eastern than our home middle school (my older kids have gone to home middle school). 
Her PE/health class is almost entirely ESOL so they can’t even seem to communicate to play games in PE. 
The facilities are beyond depressing. 
Think of all the reasons you don’t want to buy a home zoned to a low income school and that’s what Eastern is. Kids who don’t have parental supervision as much as they should, lots of absences, middle schoolers having sex, bad language (again true at all middle schools but rougher here).  It’s a very strange system to mix these two very different groups of kids, then label them magnet and comprehensive. Of course there is a divide. [/quote]

My kid is at a non-W Middle School, and there are definitely issues, but Eastern is quite different, IMO.  We had a relative at Eastern MS and it's a lot to ask for an 11 year old to deal with the racial issues that arise when you stick some magnet kids in a school such as Eastern.

Our nonW lunch room is also crazy, but not at the level that we have heard about Eastern.

I know this year, some 6th grade magnet parents approached admin about the situation, but there has not been much improvement.  Definitely talk to some current students and parents and go visit for yourself.  Agree that you should check out the lunch room.[/quote]
DP. Can random parents 'check out the lunch room' by just walking in at a random school day?
Honest question, at our current ES [b]you have to be buzzed in and then sign up after showing an ID[/b].[/quote]

This is supposed to be the protocol at all schools now.[/quote]

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