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The apologist have lost their damn minds.  The same people that didn't want our kids to learn anything new for 1.5 years so everyone could sink to the lowest common denominator and wanted to keep everyone virtual (because there was no loss of learning there :roll: ).  Schools are seeing an uptick in antisocial and aggressive behavior because many households involved neglect or abuse of these kids during the 'virtual year' of Covid.  Many homes had no supervision and behavior ran amok and kids were on tik tok and snapchat and surfing stuff well beyond their years...while they had their cameras turned off because they weren't even required to keep them on.

Regression in behavior and school was real.  I do think of all the sound bites, stories and news clips about the school shooters, so much like this that just kept getting ignored and writing it off as just 'kid stuff'.  [/quote]

No.  Just no.  Do not conflate groups of people because it fits your narrative.  The kids I know who are basket cases and attend north Arlington middle schools are from well off families who wanted their kids in school, but in the interim handed over the whole internet on their iPhones, didn't keep an eye on online school and so on.  They threw up their hands rather than parenting even harder.  I also know families who wanted schools closed, and those who wanted schools open, who stayed very tuned into their kids.

I agree with you that apologists have lost their damn minds.  If it's true that Central Office told the Swanson principal that she should be calling them rather than the police when an illegal weapon was found on campus, someone should lose their job.  I'm about to join the FOIA-crazy parents looking for evidence of any communication asserting that as the appropriate course of action.  If this kid is back in school on April 19th, you might also see parents calling the cops daily saying "there's a person on campus who has made threats against the school.  Whether he's armed is unknown."  APS doesn't want it known that cops have been called there 22 times already?  Let's try daily for the rest of the year if this disturbed individual is returned to a general education environment.
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We talked to our 7th grader about this yesterday. Presumably there is nothing to stop the kids from calling 9-1-1 if this kids shows up again with a weapon. We told our kid to do that because we have no faith in APS calling the police now.

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