Fights break out after BCC vs WJ Football game

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09/08/2024 16:33

Subject: Fights break out after BCC vs WJ Football game

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Anonymous wrote:What's the official statement from WJ and BCC principals or newly hired Jones? Or are they waiting on MCPS communications to fine tune their letters?

Why would a letter to the community be needed? The necessary precautions were in place to ensure a safe game. Parents didn’t pick up their kids after and two individuals got in a fight in the nearby shopping center.

Because MCPS routinely puts out community letters about things that involve MCPS students and public safety/criminal matters.

In fact, just this last week, the principals of Odessa Shannon MS, Kennedy and Wheaton HS just put out a joint community letter after students from those three schools engaged in a shootout at the Glenmont shopping center after school hours.

You're comparing a kid slapping a kid to a shooting?

I’m comparing a police-involved incident with students to another police-involved incident with students.

Or did you not see the police intervening in the videos posted? Your attempt to minimize the report of numerous fights down to merely down to merely a slap, despite a complete absence of additional information, belies an allegiance that you are hiding. Are you the parent of one of the students involved or are you a BCC admin who doesn’t want to take the blame for your students making the news for bad behavior once again?

Whoa. So now BCC admin are responsible for the behavior of students after hours? Is that in their job description? Where were the students' parents or guardians? Were these students aged 18? Why are you questioning HS admin about actions of students they are not responsible for after school hours? And if the altercation was off school site (yet to be confirmed based on comments here).

This is not a genuine question, but I’m going to answer it anyway for the benefit of onlookers:

Admin are responsible for school climate and culture. A school climate where violence and aggression are tolerated and perpetuated is absolutely an admin problem. Given that BCC has a track record of fights breaking out after football and basketball games, as evidenced and noted by several posters in this thread, it is clear there is a longstanding culture and climate problem at BCC that admin have failed to address.

If this doesn’t compute for you, then that says more about you and your comprehension and critical thinking limitations.

Sounds like your beef is with the G Square landlords for not maintaining a positive culture, since the fight was as G Square.

The WJ students have been basically told not to go to G square after games—many of the business around that big courtyard close early so it’s just a big blank space. That’s why they had the cops there. It’s a known issue. I think the kids that are less interested in trouble go over to Wildwood and get ice cream there, or just go straight to a friends house. I do wish G square could be a better space for teens to hang out but it’s been a problem spot and I don’t let my kids go there in the evenings.