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I was (barely) educated in that school system. They are very good at Covering their posteriors and making sure that if someone is going to get the short end of the stick it sure wont be them. If you did not stick up for yourself and bring your parents in and throw a fit in general the administration did not give a rats tail about you or your education.

I remember I tried for two years to get into a gifted class for English because I was not learning anything in the regular classes. This was in high school. They went back to a test they gave me in fourth grade right after I had moved and attempted to keep me out of the gifted class. I finally got in my junior year, after passing 10th grade English with a 99%! It was one of the toughest and best classes I took in high school. I should find Mrs. Sadler and buy her a drink of choice because she is the reason I can write coherent sentences today. I got B in that class, but I worked harder for that B than I did for all the other a's I got the rest of my high school English years.

Our neighbor (tall skinny dork with glasses type) was being pestered by a local sewer rat. They had adjoining lockers. Our neighbor requested the person please keep his hands to himself, and was rewarded with a punch to the face that broke his glasses and bloodied his nose. The school system suspended both of them for a week even though our neighbor had done nothing wrong but be harassed and then assaulted. The school said they would not spend the time to find out what happened. That they had better things to do. Now lets see a fellow who had a record as long as my leg vs the geek who had never so much turned in his homework late. I am sure that would have taken a whole lot of investigation to figure out what happened.

Two stories to illustrate the incompetency and idiocy of this particular school system.

And if the kids had been throwing small pebbles or wood chips at each other and at kids at the busbstop would the children have been suspended for the rest of the year.....,I doubt it. Only because there was an evil gun was this level of disciplined used.

I was going to reply, but mother bear took care of most of what I could say. What I will add is that while I also vote and pay attention to the school system I WILL NOT sacrifice my children education or their very souls on the alter of a suicide pact education. I care very much what is being taught in the schools but my kids come first to me.

In case you missed what I said...the schools I went to permitted horrible abuse to occur to me on their watch. I am very much in favor of keeping that from happening to anyone, but I will be CURSED to Perdition if I let it happen to my kids.

If your neighbor babysitting you beat the living tar out of you would you send your children to the same babysitter? I doubt it.

It is bovine excrement....This is the close to the neighborhood I grew up in. That is the middle school my siblings went to. Even in VA you have to be at the school bus stop to be considered under school authority. Being in a yard half a block away is not under the authority of the schools--I know this because I experienced thier "not my table policies" in my day.

These particular schools did such a "good job" protecting my siblings and I that we would not send our dogs to these schools and they are considered "good schools." They are pretentious miserable places where the majority of the teachers, if you were not in a gifted class, did not try to teach you anything. If you were the 100lb 12 year old being bullied you were told to "stand up to the bully" that was 100 lbs heavier and a foot and a half taller--but don't get yourself punched because then they will have you suspended for a week.

How I despise these schools. The teachers are happy to let Lord of the Flies take place as long as it makes their path smooth. They get all uppity about kids playing in a yard half a block from the bus stop, but did not bother to stop me being thrown into thorn bushes and having to run home from school and lock my doors. It got to the point where I joined enough after school clubs to be able to stay after nearly everyday till my mom was done with work--those days I could not stay after I took another bus and sat on my moms car till she was done.

No, I have nothing but contempt for them and their policies, and my kids will never ever darken the door of a VA public school.