Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 23:16     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:I'm 11:04 and I totally agree - kids talk back and disrupt in every school. My beef is - I feel that CPES are too lenient in their handling of it (compared to other Vienna schools - and no, I don't have the data! I do have a daughter at another Vienna Elementary school but it's mainly from talking to other parents). Some of the "incidents" my younger daughter has told me about at CPES I feel should have been dealt with more severely.

No school is perfect - CPES does have a lot going for it, it's small and friendly and generally has a great staff, but it is not that academically challenging and it does have discipline issues.

I'm not going to haul my daughter out and I love the fact that it's diverse, I just wouldn't necessarily choose it if I had free choice.

Just being honest!


Wow! What hard hitting data! We've got some report from a few parents and from a kid who likely were not privy to consequences that may have been meted out privately.I certainly hope your daughters are being taught how to support a statement better than their mother was taught.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 22:21     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:I'm 11:04 and I totally agree - kids talk back and disrupt in every school. My beef is - I feel that CPES are too lenient in their handling of it (compared to other Vienna schools - and no, I don't have the data! I do have a daughter at another Vienna Elementary school but it's mainly from talking to other parents). Some of the "incidents" my younger daughter has told me about at CPES I feel should have been dealt with more severely.

No school is perfect - CPES does have a lot going for it, it's small and friendly and generally has a great staff, but it is not that academically challenging and it does have discipline issues.

I'm not going to haul my daughter out and I love the fact that it's diverse, I just wouldn't necessarily choose it if I had free choice.

Just being honest!


You can't really expect a child to know how every incident is being handled. What your kid sees is the tip of the iceberg.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 20:26     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Besides, most of these kids all end up at Thoreau MS...don't really see anyone talking that school down having kids coming in from CPES.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 20:18     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of talking back and class disruption. It's okay - I have a kid there, she likes it, but I wouldn't send her there if I had the choice of one of the other Vienna schools.


Post like this crack me up. So are you traveling around from school to school on Vienna and observing how teachers respond to misbehavior? There are at least 25 classrooms in each school. Please share how you are able to make such a statement and what your data is to support it.


Agree, with PP. It depends on the teacher. My kids attended 3 different schools in Vienna, none of them CP. Kids talked back and acted out at all three, and just wait until you see middle school. Parents who think if their kids are in certain Vienna or whatever, upper income neighborhood schools, they'll be sitting in classes with angels and never lose time to bad behavior, are kidding themselves. Kids are kids everywhere.


What about not speaking English


That's every school in Vienna. Where have you been?
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 19:48     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:I'm 11:04 and I totally agree - kids talk back and disrupt in every school. My beef is - I feel that CPES are too lenient in their handling of it (compared to other Vienna schools - and no, I don't have the data! I do have a daughter at another Vienna Elementary school but it's mainly from talking to other parents). Some of the "incidents" my younger daughter has told me about at CPES I feel should have been dealt with more severely.

No school is perfect - CPES does have a lot going for it, it's small and friendly and generally has a great staff, but it is not that academically challenging and it does have discipline issues.

I'm not going to haul my daughter out and I love the fact that it's diverse, I just wouldn't necessarily choose it if I had free choice.

Just being honest!


Thanks for explaining - it is very easy to be hounded away here when people jump on you for saying something they don't want to hear.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 19:34     Subject: Cunningham Park
I'm 11:04 and I totally agree - kids talk back and disrupt in every school. My beef is - I feel that CPES are too lenient in their handling of it (compared to other Vienna schools - and no, I don't have the data! I do have a daughter at another Vienna Elementary school but it's mainly from talking to other parents). Some of the "incidents" my younger daughter has told me about at CPES I feel should have been dealt with more severely.

No school is perfect - CPES does have a lot going for it, it's small and friendly and generally has a great staff, but it is not that academically challenging and it does have discipline issues.

I'm not going to haul my daughter out and I love the fact that it's diverse, I just wouldn't necessarily choose it if I had free choice.

Just being honest!
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 17:00     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of talking back and class disruption. It's okay - I have a kid there, she likes it, but I wouldn't send her there if I had the choice of one of the other Vienna schools.


Post like this crack me up. So are you traveling around from school to school on Vienna and observing how teachers respond to misbehavior? There are at least 25 classrooms in each school. Please share how you are able to make such a statement and what your data is to support it.


Agree, with PP. It depends on the teacher. My kids attended 3 different schools in Vienna, none of them CP. Kids talked back and acted out at all three, and just wait until you see middle school. Parents who think if their kids are in certain Vienna or whatever, upper income neighborhood schools, they'll be sitting in classes with angels and never lose time to bad behavior, are kidding themselves. Kids are kids everywhere.


What about not speaking English


You're saying not speaking English makes kids talk back more?
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 16:24     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of talking back and class disruption. It's okay - I have a kid there, she likes it, but I wouldn't send her there if I had the choice of one of the other Vienna schools.


Post like this crack me up. So are you traveling around from school to school on Vienna and observing how teachers respond to misbehavior? There are at least 25 classrooms in each school. Please share how you are able to make such a statement and what your data is to support it.


Agree, with PP. It depends on the teacher. My kids attended 3 different schools in Vienna, none of them CP. Kids talked back and acted out at all three, and just wait until you see middle school. Parents who think if their kids are in certain Vienna or whatever, upper income neighborhood schools, they'll be sitting in classes with angels and never lose time to bad behavior, are kidding themselves. Kids are kids everywhere.


What about not speaking English
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 16:17     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of talking back and class disruption. It's okay - I have a kid there, she likes it, but I wouldn't send her there if I had the choice of one of the other Vienna schools.


Post like this crack me up. So are you traveling around from school to school on Vienna and observing how teachers respond to misbehavior? There are at least 25 classrooms in each school. Please share how you are able to make such a statement and what your data is to support it.


Agree, with PP. It depends on the teacher. My kids attended 3 different schools in Vienna, none of them CP. Kids talked back and acted out at all three, and just wait until you see middle school. Parents who think if their kids are in certain Vienna or whatever, upper income neighborhood schools, they'll be sitting in classes with angels and never lose time to bad behavior, are kidding themselves. Kids are kids everywhere.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 15:10     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:Not to mention: the richer the kids, the more they consider themselves superior to the teachers (maybe they are learning this at home?) and the more likely they are to talk back. You will see this at ANY school in Vienna.


I have never observed this
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 14:51     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Not to mention: the richer the kids, the more they consider themselves superior to the teachers (maybe they are learning this at home?) and the more likely they are to talk back. You will see this at ANY school in Vienna.


Not at Stenwood. Our students are, on the whole, a wonderful bunch.


Most FCPS schools are, on the whole, filled with wonderful kids.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 13:21     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:Not to mention: the richer the kids, the more they consider themselves superior to the teachers (maybe they are learning this at home?) and the more likely they are to talk back. You will see this at ANY school in Vienna.


Not at Stenwood. Our students are, on the whole, a wonderful bunch.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 13:15     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:Not to mention: the richer the kids, the more they consider themselves superior to the teachers (maybe they are learning this at home?) and the more likely they are to talk back. You will see this at ANY school in Vienna.


Not really, but perhaps it makes you feel better.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 13:12     Subject: Re:Cunningham Park
Not to mention: the richer the kids, the more they consider themselves superior to the teachers (maybe they are learning this at home?) and the more likely they are to talk back. You will see this at ANY school in Vienna.
Anonymous
Post 07/27/2014 11:17     Subject: Cunningham Park
Anonymous wrote:A lot of talking back and class disruption. It's okay - I have a kid there, she likes it, but I wouldn't send her there if I had the choice of one of the other Vienna schools.


Post like this crack me up. So are you traveling around from school to school on Vienna and observing how teachers respond to misbehavior? There are at least 25 classrooms in each school. Please share how you are able to make such a statement and what your data is to support it.