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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard more “horror” stories for girls at kenmore and Swanson than boys.

We have boys in kenmore with no issues (so far) but there are fights.  They do not have any recess outside time unless it is an all hands on deck of staff event.
Most fights are in the Hispanic part of the school or “tough” guys from ashlawn who seemed to have gotten pummeled several times by south Arlington kids.  Keep
In mind many 8th graders there are 16 already and no “tough” 12 or 13 year old will last long against them.

Half their friends (boys and girls at Swanson) seem to have similar issues of middle school. The girls we know (twins) have seen the mean girl thing for a few years and it was especially hard on one of the two who was a target/bullied; while the other seemed to skate through.
The boys at Swanson still hang out with their kenmore friends and our kids and seem to relate it is very clique oriented but they all are athletic so no major issues.
They did get banned as a school from the shops in westover due to behavior issues after school a year or two ago.[/quote]

DS went to Ashlawn/Swanson, and his friends who went to Kenmore had uniformly terrible experiences that were nothing like what he experienced. Swanson is mediocre, but Kenmore is another world that is jolting for kids who went to a nurturing elementary school. [/quote]

You're saying that south arlington ES feeding into Kenmore are not "nurturing?"
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