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Anonymous wrote:Question - do the magnet kids get a better or separate lunch area? We are considering TPMS for our DD for the magnet program. We would prefer that she eats lunch away from all of the bad kids and gang fights.

This isn't ES. I don't think they have assigned tables by class in MS.

Have your doctor write her a note that she has severe social anxiety and needs to eat lunch in the counselor's office everyday. It's working for a student I know. Mommy has ensured no sitting with "bad kids" for her.

Anonymous wrote:I actually overheard my 8th grader "face timing" with a friend back home and talking about this incident. We moved here from a different part of the country and these types of things are very much a culture shock for my kids, so she definitely had a lot to say. I'm not exactly sure how to approach the subject with her, so j think I'll just leave it be for now.

When you bought your house here, the real estate agent should have mentioned to you that MD has a long, proud tradition of fights at school, an odd cultural phenomena unknown in the other 49 states, DC, or US territories. I think most travel guides have some helpful tips for visitors on what to do if you encounter an unruly native MD eighth grader and he or she attempts to school fight you.

Anonymous wrote:Hoover may not have fights, but according to my DS in 7th, it is a snake pit of vicious bullying.

And that is just as bad. Too many kids commit suicide from bullying. Academic bullying is pretty rampant in the so-called good W clusters.

Hoover may not have fights, but according to my DS in 7th, it is a snake pit of vicious bullying.

Anonymous wrote:Question - do the magnet kids get a better or separate lunch area? We are considering TPMS for our DD for the magnet program. We would prefer that she eats lunch away from all of the bad kids and gang fights.

This isn't ES. I don't think they have assigned tables by class in MS.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Is this TPMS, or Ballou??? Glad my DD is at Hoover.

White kids get into fight. News at 11.

I'm sure no one ever gets into fights at Hoover.

Actually, they don't get into fights at Hoover. I had two kids go through there, one just finished last year, and they told me they never saw kids fighting. Do kids get in trouble for doing other stupid things typical of adolescents? Sure, but my kids never felt unsafe at school and no one has been offering them "designer" drugs though I'm sure they exist all over the county. Sorry to burst your bubble.

I agree with PP. My DS went to Hoover for 3 years and never witnessed a fight.

It is not a diversity issue per se, but certainly this happens much less at the private schools. Not because of wealth, but because kids at private schools tend to come from more stable (yes, better) family environments (intact families, SAHMs, less money stress, working fathers).

I attended public schools through high school in the 70s and 80s, and certainly the kids who got into fights tended to come from unstable family environments -- often with alcoholic/abusive or absent fathers. You don't tend to find that at private schools, simply because those types of parents cannot fork out 15-40k/year on private.

At the same time, we had plenty of kids from my public high school graduating class who went off to Ivies (both public and private), won Pulitzers, etc.

I actually overheard my 8th grader "face timing" with a friend back home and talking about this incident. We moved here from a different part of the country and these types of things are very much a culture shock for my kids, so she definitely had a lot to say. I'm not exactly sure how to approach the subject with her, so j think I'll just leave it be for now.

Question - do the magnet kids get a better or separate lunch area? We are considering TPMS for our DD for the magnet program. We would prefer that she eats lunch away from all of the bad kids and gang fights.

PP who referenced the incident at a Bethesda martial arts studio: it'd be great if you started a separate thread on that one if you have any info. My kids went there as well, and I hadn't heard that parents found inappropriate texts from the creep. Fwiw, we were also totally dumbfounded that some (many?) of the long-time parents were begging the TKD studio to reopen and seemed almost nonchalant about the kind of guy who had spent so much time around their kids.

Anonymous wrote:My DD in 7th grade heard nothing about this. She is in the magnet.

Does it matter? Each grade gets lunch at the same time.

Anonymous wrote:Note TPMS lunchroom is featured in these videos. The radiation agitates the nervous system. It does not help to support a calm environment to have all these wireless routers in a school. The school needs to be addressing these issues as a priority not dumping money into tech. More screens does not solve these problems.

Was this thread just a set up to get another wifi post started?

PP, you need to send you kid to school with a foil hat to keep away the radiation and alien signals.

Note TPMS lunchroom is featured in these videos. The radiation agitates the nervous system. It does not help to support a calm environment to have all these wireless routers in a school. The school needs to be addressing these issues as a priority not dumping money into tech. More screens does not solve these problems.

My DD in 7th grade heard nothing about this. She is in the magnet.