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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a high farms school that was also a failing school. I came from an UMC family that was wonderful and I still have trouble processing what my high school was like. Sometimes the fights replay in my mind too because they were so violent and brutal. I'm a petite female and was beat up before I learned to be a bit smarter (don't sit at this table, don't walk down this hallway, look down and don't smile, don't talk to people- there were so many rules and I was naïve). Luckily I made friends but I did spend a few months eating lunch in the bathroom crying. A group of guys from school tried to rape me and my friend, luckily we ran and ran and found a police officer who did protect us. Man when you talk about taking police out of schools, it blows my mind. I can't imagine how unsafe my school would have been.

I saw tons of fights, lots with knives, lots with fists and they didn't end well. My teacher had her arm broken. I took all AP courses to escape the hell that was the rest of the school, but when I had to retake tests in other classrooms- it was like the wild wild west there. Pretty sure there was zero learning going on.

But apart from the drugs and violence that I witnessed, there was a lot of trauma. So much sexual abuse and physical abuse that my classmates had. Teenaged pregnancies, no parents, homeless classmates. That was the part I was naive about.

I don't want my kids to grow up in a bubble, but exposing them to trauma like this? I hope they're never exposed. Diversity and low SES is good, trauma? hell no [/quote]

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