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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

You are encouraging young girls to not report sexual assault. You are showing young girls they won't be believed and they are being "too sensitive." You basically just said the equivalent of "boys will be boys." How disgusting.

You are being ridiculous. A little smack on the tush is not a “sexual assault”

You're right, its simple sexual battery.

Was the touch unwanted?
Was it in an intimate area, even if clothed?

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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

You are encouraging young girls to not report sexual assault. You are showing young girls they won't be believed and they are being "too sensitive." You basically just said the equivalent of "boys will be boys." How disgusting.

You are being ridiculous. A little smack on the tush is not a “sexual assault”

It may not be assault but it’s completely inappropriate. Teach your son to keep his hands to himself before he gets to high school and learns the hard way.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

You are encouraging young girls to not report sexual assault. You are showing young girls they won't be believed and they are being "too sensitive." You basically just said the equivalent of "boys will be boys." How disgusting.

You are being ridiculous. A little smack on the tush is not a “sexual assault”

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Anonymous wrote:Carson is a good school but not perfect. It has the same problems that every MS has, hormonal teens that make poor choices and can treat each other awfully. The difference is that if there is a fight at Carson, someone starts a topic about it. If there is a problem on the bus, someone starts a topic on it. If the principal sends an email home, someone starts a topic on it. All of this is happening at every other MS in the country but the anti-Carson crowd seems to think that it is strangely unique to Carson and a demonstration of some failing.

Some folks seem to have this weird drive to prove that Carson is awful.

People who have experience there share their experiences because they know that it is a normal MS and that the poor experiences of a few are not the experiences of the majority of kids.

The constant “Carson sucks here is this months example” topic is a bit too much of crying wolf.

It sounds like Carson parents are the ones who start a thread about every incident that takes place at Carson. Parents at other schools aren’t tracking Carson fights, bus incidents, and principal emails.

EXACTLY. RIO mommas trying to convince other parents that Franklin-Oakton is their saving grace. We all know there are fights at Franklin, too. Just nobody posts about them here.

They’ll get to Franklin and realize how bad it is compared to Carson and be begging to go back. lol.

The funny part is that the ones I know have kids in Carson AAP so, no, they won't be moving to Franklin, they will be staying at Carson. They are the epitome of wanting other people's kids to move to a less desirable school so that their kids can stay where they want them to stay. Crossfield sports families are so stupid and clueless, they're just following along like sheep.

Why? Franklin has AAP and in a few years, there will not be a choice to attend Carson for AAP if you are zoned to Franklin.

The leaders of RIO have late elementary/middle school children. Their kids will be in high school by the time this happens.

Amazing! Franklin has had AAP for at least 15 years. These must be time-traveling kids if they think they must go to Carson for AAP.

I've had AAP kids at both, and yeah, you sort of do have to go to Carson if you want to hit the ground running in HS. Franklin has some very good and involved teachers but its not like Carson AAP.

+1 I’ve said this too and was poo pooed. Franklin is a joke compared to Carson AAP. When your kids get to high school you will see.

I think it's dependent on the teachers your kids have. My kids had both some strong and some weak teachers at both schools. The AAP English and History teachers, as well as the Geometry and Spanish teachers, at Franklin prepared my kids very well for high school, and their reading and writing instruction was far better than what my kids at Carson got. However, the science and coding instruction at Carson was far superior to Franklin's. My kids who went to Carson were much better prepared for high school science than my kids who went to Franklin were.

It really is dependent on the teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Carson is a good school but not perfect. It has the same problems that every MS has, hormonal teens that make poor choices and can treat each other awfully. The difference is that if there is a fight at Carson, someone starts a topic about it. If there is a problem on the bus, someone starts a topic on it. If the principal sends an email home, someone starts a topic on it. All of this is happening at every other MS in the country but the anti-Carson crowd seems to think that it is strangely unique to Carson and a demonstration of some failing.

Some folks seem to have this weird drive to prove that Carson is awful.

People who have experience there share their experiences because they know that it is a normal MS and that the poor experiences of a few are not the experiences of the majority of kids.

The constant “Carson sucks here is this months example” topic is a bit too much of crying wolf.

It sounds like Carson parents are the ones who start a thread about every incident that takes place at Carson. Parents at other schools aren’t tracking Carson fights, bus incidents, and principal emails.

EXACTLY. RIO mommas trying to convince other parents that Franklin-Oakton is their saving grace. We all know there are fights at Franklin, too. Just nobody posts about them here.

They’ll get to Franklin and realize how bad it is compared to Carson and be begging to go back. lol.

The funny part is that the ones I know have kids in Carson AAP so, no, they won't be moving to Franklin, they will be staying at Carson. They are the epitome of wanting other people's kids to move to a less desirable school so that their kids can stay where they want them to stay. Crossfield sports families are so stupid and clueless, they're just following along like sheep.

Why? Franklin has AAP and in a few years, there will not be a choice to attend Carson for AAP if you are zoned to Franklin.

The leaders of RIO have late elementary/middle school children. Their kids will be in high school by the time this happens.

Amazing! Franklin has had AAP for at least 15 years. These must be time-traveling kids if they think they must go to Carson for AAP.

I've had AAP kids at both, and yeah, you sort of do have to go to Carson if you want to hit the ground running in HS. Franklin has some very good and involved teachers but its not like Carson AAP.

+1 I’ve said this too and was poo pooed. Franklin is a joke compared to Carson AAP. When your kids get to high school you will see.

The issue is that those at the top send a message to school-based administrators that they want to see "improvements" in student behavior. The message is fairly clear that you get rewarded for reporting fewer disciplinary issues, and criticized if you report more, particularly if students of particular races or backgrounds are written up more frequently.

This discussion is disheartening and pointless. Everyone will keep voting blue no matter who. The democrats don't give a shit. If you don't understand that at this point, between the FCPS admin and school board, the DA, the judiciary, the local politicians, the governor, who all add bits and pieces to the quilt of garbage dump politics that puts virtue signaling over innocent girls and boys lives at all costs it's hopeless.

I am a Carson parent. I've put multiple kids through Carson. I'm hispanic and white. It's shocking and stupid that the mouth breathers in this thread are calling this issue a non issue that is the result of white parents outside the school boundaries.

Every time I read this forum I get more depressed at how hopeless Fairfax County is. Some of you people are so hopelessly stupid and politicsbrained that I just don't see how we can move forward, and this is exactly why kids are allowed to molest other kids with no accountability, why young girls are locked in school for 8 hours a day to be molested by illegal aliens just because these people crossed the border.

Seriously, what is wrong with some of you?

And just to add materially - my child is in 7th grade. This dance was 8th grade only. She heard about this fight. I don't know any details about demographics. My child is in AAP and we have had many, many, many issues of targeted harassment, bias issues, and inappropriate touching. The administration does nothing. Westfield doesn't either. The elementary school doesn't either.

At this point I think FCPS should be declared a total loss, Reid and everyone in admin should be barred from being around children for life and probably behind bars locked away with the little angels and darlings they protect, the district should be shuttered, it should be split into smaller school districts, and the name should be changed forever. It gets worse each day.

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Anonymous wrote:Carson is a good school but not perfect. It has the same problems that every MS has, hormonal teens that make poor choices and can treat each other awfully. The difference is that if there is a fight at Carson, someone starts a topic about it. If there is a problem on the bus, someone starts a topic on it. If the principal sends an email home, someone starts a topic on it. All of this is happening at every other MS in the country but the anti-Carson crowd seems to think that it is strangely unique to Carson and a demonstration of some failing.

Some folks seem to have this weird drive to prove that Carson is awful.

People who have experience there share their experiences because they know that it is a normal MS and that the poor experiences of a few are not the experiences of the majority of kids.

The constant “Carson sucks here is this months example” topic is a bit too much of crying wolf.

It sounds like Carson parents are the ones who start a thread about every incident that takes place at Carson. Parents at other schools aren’t tracking Carson fights, bus incidents, and principal emails.

EXACTLY. RIO mommas trying to convince other parents that Franklin-Oakton is their saving grace. We all know there are fights at Franklin, too. Just nobody posts about them here.

They’ll get to Franklin and realize how bad it is compared to Carson and be begging to go back. lol.

The funny part is that the ones I know have kids in Carson AAP so, no, they won't be moving to Franklin, they will be staying at Carson. They are the epitome of wanting other people's kids to move to a less desirable school so that their kids can stay where they want them to stay. Crossfield sports families are so stupid and clueless, they're just following along like sheep.

Why? Franklin has AAP and in a few years, there will not be a choice to attend Carson for AAP if you are zoned to Franklin.

The leaders of RIO have late elementary/middle school children. Their kids will be in high school by the time this happens.

Amazing! Franklin has had AAP for at least 15 years. These must be time-traveling kids if they think they must go to Carson for AAP.

I've had AAP kids at both, and yeah, you sort of do have to go to Carson if you want to hit the ground running in HS. Franklin has some very good and involved teachers but its not like Carson AAP.

Anonymous wrote:“Every kid at Carson would have…” you do understand that the school is huge and highly
Segregated by pod? In fact, many middle schools are. Not every kid is connected. And much like a lot of the split feeders, kids don’t always connect with the wider school outside of their classes. From what I hear, the 8th grade dance and all dances are hardly attended compared to overall population. The resistance here is huge. This is why Carson is problematic and Carson parents are problematic and this is why admin never has to be responsive. What would admin waste time creating a responsive and appropriate culture at school that demands young women not be assaulted? The parents in an effort to protect their dear treasure of AAP feeder to TJ will dismiss any whiff of impropriety. Reputation above all. Reputation above responsiveness.

You sound crazy. And honestly maybe a little jealous, and I have a child at Carson and don't think that you have anything to be jealous of. It's a regular middle school with the regular middle school problems.

100% - FCPS admin do nothing, and it’s at enormous risk to the broader community.

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Anonymous wrote:Used to be lessons like this were taught off of school grounds.

Given the behaviors in school lately and how schools pass it off, I am surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

If the system doesn't provide justice, people provide their own. It's always been that way. I'm not in favor of this approach but it shouldn't be a surprise AT ALL given the schools won't do anything.

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Anonymous wrote:“Every kid at Carson would have…” you do understand that the school is huge and highly
Segregated by pod? In fact, many middle schools are. Not every kid is connected. And much like a lot of the split feeders, kids don’t always connect with the wider school outside of their classes. From what I hear, the 8th grade dance and all dances are hardly attended compared to overall population. The resistance here is huge. This is why Carson is problematic and Carson parents are problematic and this is why admin never has to be responsive. What would admin waste time creating a responsive and appropriate culture at school that demands young women not be assaulted? The parents in an effort to protect their dear treasure of AAP feeder to TJ will dismiss any whiff of impropriety. Reputation above all. Reputation above responsiveness.

Oh, please. Every middle school has different "teams". When a fight happens, someone videos it every time, and every kid in the school has seen that video by the next day. I had kids at another MS that was a split feeder, they connected just fine with kids from other elementary schools. Split feeders are simply not a big deal and not problematic.

Agree! And, if they haven't seen the video, they have sure heard about it. And, your little hothouse kids are not isolated all the time. And, if they are, that is even more troubling.

Anonymous wrote:“Every kid at Carson would have…” you do understand that the school is huge and highly
Segregated by pod? In fact, many middle schools are. Not every kid is connected. And much like a lot of the split feeders, kids don’t always connect with the wider school outside of their classes. From what I hear, the 8th grade dance and all dances are hardly attended compared to overall population. The resistance here is huge. This is why Carson is problematic and Carson parents are problematic and this is why admin never has to be responsive. What would admin waste time creating a responsive and appropriate culture at school that demands young women not be assaulted? The parents in an effort to protect their dear treasure of AAP feeder to TJ will dismiss any whiff of impropriety. Reputation above all. Reputation above responsiveness.

Oh, please. Every middle school has different "teams". When a fight happens, someone videos it every time, and every kid in the school has seen that video by the next day. I had kids at another MS that was a split feeder, they connected just fine with kids from other elementary schools. Split feeders are simply not a big deal and not problematic.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

You are encouraging young girls to not report sexual assault. You are showing young girls they won't be believed and they are being "too sensitive." You basically just said the equivalent of "boys will be boys." How disgusting.

I think that the PP was saying she doubted the fight happened--not denying the girls.

But, we don't know, now do we? This could be absolutely true. It could also be absolutely not true. Or, it could be somewhere in the middle.
And, yes, girls should report assault. I don't think PP was saying that they should not.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

You are encouraging young girls to not report sexual assault. You are showing young girls they won't be believed and they are being "too sensitive." You basically just said the equivalent of "boys will be boys." How disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither my 7th or 8th grader heard anything about a fight at Carson last week. Is this even real?

I doubt it happened, maybe some shoving. If there was a group attack on one kid we would have gotten an email about a fight. I would guess that the kid was smacking girls on the butt, not groping or pinching, and that the kid got shoved around a bit.

Carson only emails to say please don’t video fights 🤣