Anonymous
11/28/2022 02:23
Subject: Fights in MS - what are they fighting about?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Former middle school teacher here: They are fighting about anything, everything and most times nothing that would warrant a fight. Lack of communication skills and increase of technology use are a huge problem with adolescents due to lockdown. Most of those issues were around before lockdown but increased drastically because of lockdown. Kids don’t know how to talk to each other to solve an issue. They are quick to post something online but not solve a problem they may have with a friend. Also there is a big mob mentality as well. Putting on a show for everyone to video tape it or talk about it.
Current middle school teacher here--100% this. It's different from when we were kids.
Meh. My UMC suburban public school in the 80s routinely had kids “meeting to fight at the water tower” (so they wouldn’t get in trouble from the school). Word got around by the last class of the day and crowds of kids gathered to watch.
Anonymous
11/28/2022 01:48
Subject: Fights in MS - what are they fighting about?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My DS has come home a number of times this year and mentioned another fight in school. He goes to a W MS. What the heck are these kids fighting about.
Are they white kids? Why dont school admin do simething tobthem? Is this a perfect chance to show they don’t give white and rich kids a break but always target minority students?
If this is at one of the segregated schools, that lesson will be lost on them further cutting wealthy kids' breaks is SOP.
I graduated from Whitman, we had fights in school. Kids got suspended for a few days, came back. That was that.