Anonymous wrote:Can you provide the link you are viewing? At #SaxonStrong all I am seeing is some realy nice but sad kids expressing condolences for two lost classmates?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Some people like to make it sound like the porridge is just the right temperature at their school, and that the porridge at other schools is either too hot/too rich or too cold/too poor.

It would be a shame if someone decides to use a tragedy at an area school as the pretext to lobby for their own neighborhood or embue their own schools with characteristics that they may not really possess.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to a white, privileged FFX Co HS (I'm not saying which one).

My conclusion: I would never send my kids to a school with those demographics. I would send my kids to a very good school with high academic achievement--but with socio-economic diversity. The pecking order, the mean girls, the 'bro-culture', the excess of drugs and zero supervision, the parent body that was arrogant.

We left the city because we would have been forced into doing private middle school and HS. The parent and student culture at these schools--like some of the affluent suburbs-- were not what we wanted for our kids. The elitisim, the turning a cheek, the extreme wealth with little supervision, the parents never admitting their kids could be in the wrong, etc.

We purposely chose one of the close-in VA HS that offers this compromise--lots of down-to-earth people with diversity. My kids see and our friends with kids that don't have all the benefits they do. It forces them to be compassionate, to be thankful, to open dialogoue, to be worldly and non-insular. It is a very good school. People try to trash it on these forums and I can't quite wrap my head around it. I think it may be that they chose to live in an area solely for the schools so if it looks like somebody that lives somewhere with more than that--they have to trash it.

Anonymous wrote:I was reading the twitter of some of the langley students who were showing their support for the recent suicides and was shocked by the blatant cursing, drug / drinking talk and suggestive pictures. There are also tons of suggestive photos and selfies of flicking people off etc...

Is this the norm nowadays?

Do parents feel this is the way kids express themselves and it's ok?

What will future employers think?

As a owner of a company I am wondering if you just ignore high school years because it's so public?

In my past I would never post anything online or publically but facebook and twitter weren't around.

Anonymous wrote:As an employer I always check fb and twitter accts of potential employees.

More than one promising resume was filed in the garbage due to an inappropriate cover photo or tweet.