Bullied Northwest HS student murdered; mother got no help from BOE

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/kolbiereports/status/1486141379571032065?s=21

Watch the interview.. really upsetting.

[Anonymous]

Painful to watch.

[Anonymous]

I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

[Anonymous]

Man. I feel like MCPS is falling apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man. I feel like MCPS is falling apart.

Or maybe it’s just Montgomery County falling apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

MCPS has a virtual academy but you needed to request that way back in the spring to get in.

[Anonymous]

They have a SESES program at Northwest (formerly called the Emotional Disabilities program). Many times kids move from a non-public placement to that program. I wonder if that is what mom is saying? It sounds like he was in a school with a higher level of support and they took that away from him.

[Anonymous]

Incredibly sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

MCPS has a virtual academy but you needed to request that way back in the spring to get in.

Then maybe it should have been requested because this isn't making sense. The mother is accusing MCPS of killing her child but...he went missing on Jan. 7th. He was not found murdered (in a residential neighborhood) until Jan. 25th. In the same county and same area he's from - so he wasn't kidnapped or abducted across the country or into the woods somewhere.

So where's he been for the past 3 weeks? Obviously alive somewhere. Hanging with the wrong crowd?

[Anonymous]

So many bad decisions by mcps/BOE and these are the consequences that are coming to light. It’s disgusting and harmful to children and their families. They can talk all they want about ‘equity’ and standing up for vulnerable families but at the end of the day MCPS/BOE has caused so much irreparable harm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

MCPS has a virtual academy but you needed to request that way back in the spring to get in.

Then maybe it should have been requested because this isn't making sense. The mother is accusing MCPS of killing her child but...he went missing on Jan. 7th. He was not found murdered (in a residential neighborhood) until Jan. 25th. In the same county and same area he's from - so he wasn't kidnapped or abducted across the country or into the woods somewhere.

So where's he been for the past 3 weeks? Obviously alive somewhere. Hanging with the wrong crowd?

LOOK at the picture. He was under a bridge.

[Anonymous]

Did it take that long to find his body from Jan 7th to Jan 25th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Man. I feel like MCPS is falling apart.

Or maybe it’s just Montgomery County falling apart.

Agreed. I’ve lived in this county for 15 years and have watched this county decline in so many ways. Our County leadership is a disaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have a SESES program at Northwest (formerly called the Emotional Disabilities program). Many times kids move from a non-public placement to that program. I wonder if that is what mom is saying? It sounds like he was in a school with a higher level of support and they took that away from him.

Isn’t that the same program that they have at Magruder?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did it take that long to find his body from Jan 7th to Jan 25th?

Some bodies are never found.