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Anonymous wrote:When you see these types of responses I realize why this happens. Many parents think this is normal. I hope these incidents stop during the summer since students are on free time.

Seriously. The "other schools have fights" are whacked.

They may be fine with fights. I expect fights at my kids' schools to be far and few between and dealt with quickly and effectively by admin. Otherwise, we're changing schools because not all schools have such disruptive kids.

Where do your kids go to school? Be specific.

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Anonymous wrote:McA has alot of out of boundary students. Momentum is not quite there with neighbors yet.

Growing by the year. Next year is the first year where Hardy students don’t have a choice on feeder pattern. Buy-in and excitement of current Hardy students is very strong. We have a rising Hardy 8th grader and are planning on McA. Tipping point is coming very, very soon. If not next year, definitely the year after. This school is extremely promising

Or they could go private or lottery elsewhere.

There aren't enough private and lottery seats to go around. At our high income McA feeder, kids leave in elementary or middle school to secure seats at private schools. By the time high school rolls around, everyone who isn't comfortable with the feeder pattern (Hardy and JR up until now) is long gone. Sure, some families will scramble, but the average wealth in the feeder neighborhoods is significantly higher than in Deal/JR neighborhoods and people aren't relying solely on one year's worth of application/lottery luck for their kids' educations.

There are also a lot of very engaged OOB families at the feeders that have been driving their kids across town to H-A or other feeders for years and years. They don't have the resources to apply out in fourth grade like IB families, but are also going to drive up the academic expectations and economic demographics of the OOB population once they don't have the option for JR.

It's easy to look at the school currently and write it off, but original PP is correct that there's a lot of momentum and once the feeder pattern is Hardy to McA only, the school is going to change quickly and significantly. Guessing in the next 3-5 years it will look a lot like Hardy - about 10-15% at-risk and one-third OOB.

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Anonymous wrote:McA has alot of out of boundary students. Momentum is not quite there with neighbors yet.

Growing by the year. Next year is the first year where Hardy students don’t have a choice on feeder pattern. Buy-in and excitement of current Hardy students is very strong. We have a rising Hardy 8th grader and are planning on McA. Tipping point is coming very, very soon. If not next year, definitely the year after. This school is extremely promising

Or they could go private or lottery elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:McA has alot of out of boundary students. Momentum is not quite there with neighbors yet.

Growing by the year. Next year is the first year where Hardy students don’t have a choice on feeder pattern. Buy-in and excitement of current Hardy students is very strong. We have a rising Hardy 8th grader and are planning on McA. Tipping point is coming very, very soon. If not next year, definitely the year after. This school is extremely promising

Anonymous wrote:When you see these types of responses I realize why this happens. Many parents think this is normal. I hope these incidents stop during the summer since students are on free time.

Seriously. The "other schools have fights" are whacked.

They may be fine with fights. I expect fights at my kids' schools to be far and few between and dealt with quickly and effectively by admin. Otherwise, we're changing schools because not all schools have such disruptive kids.

When you see these types of responses I realize why this happens. Many parents think this is normal. I hope these incidents stop during the summer since students are on free time.

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Anonymous wrote:I just found out that there was a fight yesterday a girl.
Was jump.I was thinking about putting my daughter in this school but I see that it is very dangerous.

A fight at a high school? Now I've heard everything.

My kid showed the video. It was bad!

I guarantee you there were just-as-vicious fights at thousands of other high schools around the country on the same day, and at numerous high schools in this area (including many of them at allegedly better schools in Montgomery and Fairfax counties). To say this type of incident is unique to MacArthur is just being dense. You don't seem very bright.

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it all rich kids? Look at the boundary — it’s literally all wealthy areas.

No, low neighborhood buy in. Majority of kids OOB and low income. It’s a title 1 school poorly performing school. It’s got a very long way to go.

I saw the video and most of the students involved are not from the area. These schools and their leaders are not taking these things seriously. What's the next thing we're going to see is someone getting hurt from fighting or excessive drug use?

McA has alot of out of boundary students. Momentum is not quite there with neighbors yet.

Isn’t it all rich kids? Look at the boundary — it’s literally all wealthy areas.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just found out that there was a fight yesterday a girl.
Was jump.I was thinking about putting my daughter in this school but I see that it is very dangerous.

A fight at a high school? Now I've heard everything.

My kid showed the video. It was bad!

Anonymous wrote:I just found out that there was a fight yesterday a girl.
Was jump.I was thinking about putting my daughter in this school but I see that it is very dangerous.

A fight at a high school? Now I've heard everything.

That fight was pretty bad!

I just found out that there was a fight yesterday a girl.
Was jump.I was thinking about putting my daughter in this school but I see that it is very dangerous.