Severna Park High School viral racist/ableist incident

[Anonymous]

Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

This is something that’s occurring now, how is it trolling to bring it up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

No the difference is the response.

SP parents are MAGA idiots, racists, anti semites, and down right well not that bright .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

This is something that’s occurring now, how is it trolling to bring it up

Pretending it’s something unique to SP is the trolling part. That living in MoCo or Fairfax would prevent exposure too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

No the difference is the response.

SP parents are MAGA idiots, racists, anti semites, and down right well not that bright .

Then I guess MoCo is full of MAGA racist idiots too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

How is this anti-Severna Park trolling? DCUM posts about AA County have no issue categorizing Crofton, Edgewater, and Pasadena as “racist trash” as opposed to Severna Park (when Crofton is actually far more liberal and racially diverse than SP), but the second that anyone says anything critical about SP they’re a “troll.”


Yes, these types of incidents can happen at any school, but what separates SPHS from the others is SPHS’ lack of a response to these issues. Take notes on the response to anti-Semitic graffiti at Walt Whitman HS a few weeks ago. There was a much larger and firm community and school response in opposition to the incident than there is at SP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

How is this anti-Severna Park trolling? DCUM posts about AA County have no issue categorizing Crofton, Edgewater, and Pasadena as “racist trash” as opposed to Severna Park (when Crofton is actually far more liberal and racially diverse than SP), but the second that anyone says anything critical about SP they’re a “troll.”


Yes, these types of incidents can happen at any school, but what separates SPHS from the others is SPHS’ lack of a response to these issues. Take notes on the response to anti-Semitic graffiti at Walt Whitman HS a few weeks ago. There was a much larger and firm community and school response in opposition to the incident than there is at SP.

Because neither the act nor the response is an outlier for the region. As for comments about Crofton et al two wrongs don’t make a right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

This is something that’s occurring now, how is it trolling to bring it up

Pretending it’s something unique to SP is the trolling part. That living in MoCo or Fairfax would prevent exposure too.

An incident of this magnitude is pretty rare. Racism may not be, but bullying a special needs kid to the point of calling him “c****le” and threatening him with violence isn’t common at Fairfax or MoCo high schools, don’t sit there and act like it is. This is the result of SP letting kids get away with everything and some of the parents in the community failing to instill morals in their kids.

[Anonymous]

He also told him he’d put his black a** in the electric chair. That is a death threat to a minority group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because neither the act nor the response is an outlier for the region. As for comments about Crofton et al two wrongs don’t make a right.

The response from the school is definitely an outlier, take note from similar incidents in the same county

Arundel High School’s principal sent home a letter to parents Monday saying that she was saddened and stunned “by the mere existence of the petition, to say nothing of the wording used in it.” But she also said she was equally heartened by the resolve of staff, parents, students and the community.

“The collective message has been clear: Arundel High School will not be defined by this incident,” Principal Gina Davenport wrote. “We will remain one community that celebrates our diversity.”

Davenport asked parents and students to join her at the school this week to discuss “where we as a community go from here.”

Two 2014 graduates of Arundel High — Wilglory Tanjong, now a Princeton student, and Irvin McCullough, now a Cornell student — called on school officials to recognize the petition as hate speech, punish the petitioners, clarify policies toward student hate speech, and “educate students about both systemic and overt racism by hosting inclusive discussions and reshaping course curriculums.”

In a letter to parents, the school's principal, Jim Todd, said the message was racist.

"The contents of this post were outrageous, deplorable, and entirely unacceptable. I condemn them in the strongest possible terms," Todd wrote

Walt Whitman High School's Jewish community gathered Thursday morning for a walkout/assembly amid recent cases of antisemitic graffiti in Montgomery County, including one at the school last week. They were joined in the walkout by hundreds of students.

Where exactly is this response from SPHS? All I see is SPHS trying to downplay the incident as much as they can (i.e. saying “racial epithet” instead of “racist slur,” saying “belittling towards our special needs student” instead of “using threatening and offensive language towards one of our special needs students.” I also see that they’re more focused on finding out who airdropped the video than they are on gathering the community together and sending the message that this isn’t okay.

[Anonymous]

For those who haven’t watched the video and are comparing it to other incidents. This is beyond what I see on scum and agree with PP that there’s no adequate response from SPHS.

Here is the transcript:
"I'm about to beat the sh*t out of you"
"Yo, F*** you"
"Go bother some other N****r"
You can then hear his friend say "Brandon Chill"
Brendan Continues...
"Yo, shut the actual F*** up and leave"
"Get the F*** out of here with your little black a*s, f***ing cripple"
"You F***ing Cripple"
"I'm going to put you in an electric chair, March 15th"
"I'm actually going to put this kid in an electric chair and shove dynamite up your a*s"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of DC area schools have had similar incidents but of course the anti Severna Park troll is first on the scene.

-Key School parent living in Davidsonville

No the difference is the response.

SP parents are MAGA idiots, racists, anti semites, and down right well not that bright .

Then I guess MoCo is full of MAGA racist idiots too.

Full? No.

MoCo is no SP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He also told him he’d put his black a** in the electric chair. That is a death threat to a minority group.

He wasn't even black was he?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who haven’t watched the video and are comparing it to other incidents. This is beyond what I see on scum and agree with PP that there’s no adequate response from SPHS.

Here is the transcript:
"I'm about to beat the sh*t out of you"
"Yo, F*** you"
"Go bother some other N****r"
You can then hear his friend say "Brandon Chill"
Brendan Continues...
"Yo, shut the actual F*** up and leave"
"Get the F*** out of here with your little black a*s, f***ing cripple"
"You F***ing Cripple"
"I'm going to put you in an electric chair, March 15th"
"I'm actually going to put this kid in an electric chair and shove dynamite up your a*s"

I guess I've led a sheltered life ( I'm in my 50s), but even being able to say something so disgusting is something I don't understand for the life of me. I just don't get it. What could be wrong with someone that they could say all that, and while they are LAUGHING, and in front of other people, and to another human being's face (disabled or not, but definitely worse that the poor kid was disabled)? It's just something that I can't wrap my head around at all.

[Anonymous]

I dont live in either SP or Chesapeake, but as MAGA as Chesapeake cluster schools in Pasadena are, I’ve seen far better responses from the principals there when racist incidents occur, more community outreach, and a far larger community response than I do at SP. Some Chesapeake parents even founded an anti-racist organization called “One Pasadena” in response to racism at Chesapeake.

At SP, the response is always “this doesn’t define our community. These few kids were just out of hand and they won’t do it again. End of discussion.”

IIRC, SP was under a fire a few years ago for calling a Black player on the Arundel HS football team the n-word. The Arundel community was talking about it for weeks, while the SP community hardly talked about it and the player got a slap on the wrist.