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Briar Woods/Eagle Ridge

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by sandaddy, May 11, 2012.

  1. latka

    latka Active Member

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    My kids have homework every night. They also have a flex period every other day for 1:30 to do homework.
     
  2. sugarc

    sugarc New Member

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    I'm a teacher in the county but not at ER or BW. Parents, if you have issue with some of your child's teachers you MUST say something to the administration! If parents complain, things are addressed. Also, the no homework policy is part of the whole middle school philosophy that I'm not a fan of.
     
  3. shim

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    Unfortunately, I believe the problem is the administration, lackluster and invisible. Is there a parent out there that has had a substinative converation with a member of the BWHS Admin?
     
  4. diana5869

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    I am not a math teacher, or a teacher for that matter, but I do work at BWHS, and I can say that students passing the class, and failing the SOL could definitely happen. As a whole, the state of VA passed 28% fewer students this year than in years past. The test was more "technology" heavy, meaning there were more tools for them to have to use, and some of the questions could have more than one answer, something that they have never done before. Students and teachers had very little time "days" to see samples of the questions, making the test more difficult.

    I am not saying that the test should not be more difficult, it absolutely should be, but the tests were significantly harder this year, and I don't think everyone was prepared for the added difficulty.
     
  5. shim

    shim shim

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    :conf2:
     
  6. wahoogeek

    wahoogeek New Member

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    Can anyone tell us the official rationale for the no homework policy?
     
  7. chattycat

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    Did any of you go to "grammar" school? Wow. Reading some of these was painful!
    By the way, ask yourself one thing. Is your child happy?
     
  8. ker

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    I went to Eagle Ridge from 2002-2004 and I noticed teachers did absolutely nothing about the bullying of disabled children. I witnessed a lot of these Broadland's kids torment kids with autism or other small disabilities. I talked to the teachers about it and they did absolutely nothing to prevent it.

    I would invite these loners to sit with me at lunch because I did not want them to have to sit alone, but one kid was tormented so much, he ended up taking his own life. I feel like the Eagle Ridge administration should have done something more about the bullying I reported...

    I was also bullied a lot for associating with these group of kids so, I transferred to Stone Bridge High School. I was never bullied at that school and I was very glad I escaped having to go to Briar Woods. All my friends that remained at Briar woods were bullied into the last day of their senior year.

    If this isn't bad enough, the students at Briar Woods/ Eagle ridge also have a much more promiscuous culture and they are considered the "STD" school of Loudoun County, So parents...Beware! Briar Woods also has a reputation for a lot of rich, spoiled, kids who go out drinking and destroying property.
     
  9. PDILLM

    PDILLM Well-Known Member

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    Ker,

    As someone that was also bullied in school, I have great empathy for those that were\are bullied, and I was tracking with you until the last paragraph.

    I've just spent the last hour on google and can't find one statistic or report that provides STD rates by high school or identify a mechanism that shows how a STD reported to a family doctor is alligned to that person's high school. Based on what you wrote, it seems like you would have graduated in 2008. Is your assertion based on four year-old rumors? I don't even know how to address your allegations of " a promiscious culture". I never went to either school, but do students fill out a report every time they have sex while in high school that our school board collates for the residents? BW is the "STD School"? Thank goodness the LC School Board have been able to force all these people into one school so their morals don't impact the other schools in Loudoun County (note sarcasm). Your two assertions reek of hyperbole and personal bitterness. If I am wrong, please disclose your sources for the claims you made.

    If your allegations regarding reporting kids being bullied and teachers did nothing to stop as well as students taking their life from being bullied, I'm surprised there wasn't a flock of lawyers descending on the administration and school board. Nothing happened to anyone?

    Now, for "spoiled rich kids"..... I'll give you that only because we are in a more affluent location than some. Spoiled? OK...maybe. I also recoil when you said "who go out drinking and destroying property". One just has to look at the police reports to see that happens, but are you asserting they do that because they are "rich and spoiled"? I think its more lack of parental supervision and boredom. I graduated high school in the early 1980s and confess that I also did that. Oh, and I grew up in a very poor working class neighborhood in a poor state. A cursory glance shows petty crime occurs all across the metro area, so is our entire VA\DC\MD area rich and spoiled?

    It took me 10-15 years to get over getting bullied and I have never and will never go back to my high school for any reason or reunion. The healthiest thing you can do is stop lashing out at the school, the people who did this to you no longer go there. The claims you are making about the current students are not the same kids that went there when you were in the school system. Now that you are over 21, you need to focus on yourself, your job or career, and let this part of your life go......
     
  10. latka

    latka Active Member

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    I don't remember any student in Briar Woods or Eagle Ridge taking their own life.
     
  11. pamD

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    I don't think Ker was talking about statistics - just reputation. But sometimes that tells a truth about things...
     
  12. vacliff

    vacliff "You shouldn't say that."

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    ker-

    Are you aware that half the kids at Eagle Ridge go to Stone Bridge, not Briar Woods?
    Are you aware that Stone bridge was the feature in a Washington Post story about the excess of "spoiled rich kids" in Ashburn?
    Please don't try to start petty high school versus high school fights.
     
  13. ker

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    He took his life after he graduated. I should have clarified that. You are right though, there are spoiled kids everywhere.
     
  14. Brassy

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    My daughter eventually came to like BWHS, she was dissapointed in tot being able to attend SBHS, like my son had. She was much familiar with it and we knew how great a principle Mr. Person is. Foregin lang dept there is much better.
    She began taking German in Middle school. AT HS, she continued through the fifth year, which is AP German 5. She was very unhappy and thought she wasn't learning much. The issuse I had is the teacher said he had to teach to every level...but promised he'd only speak German in the class the follwoing year, which never happend. Seriously? At least by the 3-4th year, they should only be speaking German in class, and it should have weeded out the ones who didn't get it, or only need two years.
    So she thinks, despite taking German now for 7-8 years, she wont' do well in it at the college level - which is what she wants to minor in. I think she is better than she thinks, but its hard to measure with the way she was taught. At SBHS? we have friends who took German there all the way though AP5 and they can speak it like a native!
     
  15. ker

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    Yeah, My friend took German at SBHS into AP German and he can speak fluently. He minored in it in college and did pretty well. I took Spanish for all 5 years as well and, by my senior year, we were speaking it fluently in class. I found it very helpful in college and my future career.

    I can't speak for Briar Woods at all, and I didn't realize half the Eagle Ridge kids go to Stone Bridge (because they didn't when I went there). I took Algebra 1 at Eagle Ridge, transferred to Stone Bridge, and I was way behind all the kids that took Algebra 1 at Belmont Ridge.
     
  16. vacliff

    vacliff "You shouldn't say that."

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    Yep. Southern half of Ashburn Farm goes there. They will be opening a new middle school near Gloucester/Claiborne Parkway intersection in a few years and that is where all of the Farm will go.
     
  17. andrewhoya

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    As someone who goes to BWHS, we are considered the party school and are full of spoiled rich kids who do go partying every chance possible. The STD thing, though, is false. However, we are known for something else somewhat similar (also false).

    I know there was a very small number of Eagle kids who went to SBHS when I left ER-- and based on recent numbers it is still that way. It is nowhere near half-- BWHS controls close to 70%, with the last 30 split between Broad Run and Stone Bridge.

    Bullying is practically non-existant at BWHS, and I never witnessed anything at Eagle either. There are other problems, like theft and vandalism, however.

    Last thing.... I find it funny that we have all of these critics of BWHS and ERMS, yet most people posting do not know the difference between principal and principle. As stated before, the grammar is terrible, too.
     
  18. cindyb

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    I can tell you that bullying is definitely in BWHS. Our family knows from being on the receiving end, not just by students, but by their parents and the administration. With boundary changes, we have experienced Broad Run, Stone Bridge, Briar Woods, Farmwell, and Eagle Ridge. Granted, this was over time and things do change but Eagle Ridge and Briar Woods definitely were more disappointing than the others. We actually got comments from the administration like "Oh well, it's just this class. These kids are horrible." Ker's experience with bullying sounds very much like our experience.
     
  19. andrewhoya

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    When was that? I can vouch and say there have been two terrible classes recently.... No bullying, just no respect for authority.
     
  20. chattycat

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    Touche, Andrew...
     

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