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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redistricting is hopefully what will come soon for CHS. We do not want Neelsville and some students from Montgomery Village that go to CHS. Serious safety and behavior concerns have been brought up about these students. Not all, but enough to be a trend. Parents have voiced their concerns in parent meetings and board meetings. CHS will reflect the community of Clarksburg once this is done.[/quote]

You can’t just ‘redistrict’ all the poor kids away . If there are already bunches in the neighboring district how is that going to help rebalance things?
Why are there so many poor, apparently unsupervised kids in our county? Are they citizens? What jobs do they do that they can’t supervise their kids? 
Do these schools need to be better staffed starting in Kindergarten ? 
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I work in an ES that feeds into Neelsville. There are many unsupervised kids. A lot of elementary kids being watched after school by their middle and high school siblings, who expose them to things way beyond their maturity level. Then they try to emulate them by acting tough and "cool". These kids know things that no elementary student should know.  There has been a lot of trauma in these students' lives, and I'm talking about the ones who are born here and speak only English because people assume it's the immigrants who are the issue. That's a different issue, but impacts the kids in a more academic way rather than in a behavioral way.

The 5 or so most extreme behavior issues in our building are AA males born in the US. There is usually a single parent and the kids are left to pretty much raise themselves and then they crave and seek attention any way they can get it whether it's positive or negative. Parents are mostly unresponsive--they don't show up to meetings, don't answer the phone when we call, don't return emails, and when they do they are hostile and pretty much tell us it's our problem to deal with during school hours. The parents are typically not willing to entertain referrals to outside resources because they don't typically trust "outsiders" to get involved in their lives.

Schools need more staffing period. But I really don't see extra staffing in Kindergarten to be enough to change this problem. [/quote]

Sounds tough and sad both. [/quote]

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