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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I recommend you spend some time in Tenlytown both before and after school.  Talk with the folks who work in the businesses around the school.  Or just sit on the bench by the library and observe.  It will give you a good feel for the school.[/quote]

What exactly will you learn about the school from observing how kids behave as soon as they're done with school for the day?[/quote]

NP here. You learn a lot, insomuch as the behavior of the kids that attend the school. Im in Tenleytown most days around that time, and have been threatened routinely inside of my car, outside of my car, I watch kids smoking weed out in the open, screaming at eachother, running in packs from various police officers posted to keep behavior in check,  the stress of the managers at Target over shoplifting, the stress and eye-rolling of the local businesses, kids sneaking in the backdoor of Wawa to get around the timed entry. The general manners of the portion of the student body observed (terrible). The drive-by shooting that took place outside. Its precisely BECAUSE of the observation of students outside of the building that I would never send my kids there, and I'm in the feeder pattern. I don't what we are going to do because we can't afford private, but understanding my own expectations for my kids and their behavior, being surrounded by what I see every day around J-R makes this school a non option. Maybe we move in bounds for MacArthur. There is nothing to do or mess with retail wise so maybe kids will just...go home? [/quote]

OP, I would encourage you to keep one fact in mind when reading this: this poster does not have children at JR or even seem to know anyone with children at JR. They are assuming all of the kids they are observing are JR kids, and they are extrapolating behavior from a group of kids who may or may not be JR students to a student body of 2200. (And this assumes you take the poster’s assertions about the observed behavior at face value. I mean, “threatened routinely”? Come on.)

Meanwhile, throwing in the shooting is a real dog whistle. The shooting had nothing to do with the school except for proximity. I suspect the poster knows this, since it was widely reported, but they really want you to think JR students were involved.

The only good thing about this post is the poster’s promise not to send their kids to JR. Thank goodness for that.[/quote]

Ditto. My kid has THE NICEST friend group! All highly motivated kids with terrific parents and lots of potential. They aren’t shoplifting or threatening anyone. But they have learned to navigate that smaller group of troubled students (mostly by ignoring them and realizing their circumstances in life are not ideal so…empathy). [/quote]

Well, FWIW the troublemakers are bullies and thugs, who routinely get away with messing with other kids. [/quote]

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