WJ - Senior Prank Gone Bad?

[Anonymous]

What happened at WJ earlier in the week? - a bunch of parents were talking at our pool about an incident involving extensive vandalism that happened earlier in the week, but everyone was foggy on the details. Some said the destruction involved some very questionable substances being thrown around. We are slated to feed into WJ in a couple of years, and the rumors circulating around were really concerning.

[Anonymous]

Fecal matter and urine in the hallways

[Anonymous]

Apparently, a custodial service worker was also injured in this incident. I hope that person is pressing charges. Does anyone know if consequences have been given to the students involved? Were they all seniors?

[Anonymous]

They do need to press charges and enforce some consequences. It sounds like it was pretty bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They do need to press charges and enforce some consequences. It sounds like it was pretty bad.

LOL lucky if they get a slap on the hand. They will brush it under the rug.

[Anonymous]

Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

[Anonymous]

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They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Different parent here. I don't gather that they've had more issues than other schools this year. From my experience as a parent, I think they've done a great job of bringing kids back into the classroom after a year or more in virtual school.

[Anonymous]

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They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Different parent here. I don't gather that they've had more issues than other schools this year. From my experience as a parent, I think they've done a great job of bringing kids back into the classroom after a year or more in virtual school.

That's good they've done a great job but they've also had their share of issues this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

this is so true, One kid uses the N word at a W school and it makes the news. It gets used 1000 times a day at the poorer schools and it is just kids being kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

this is so true, One kid uses the N word at a W school and it makes the news. It gets used 1000 times a day at the poorer schools and it is just kids being kids.

Less than one page later, and this thread has gone from a verifiable destructive and dangerous act at a predominantly white school, and become about "those kids" in other schools. This is white supremacy in action - any excuse to move the blame to Black people and exonerate the whites.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

this is so true, One kid uses the N word at a W school and it makes the news. It gets used 1000 times a day at the poorer schools and it is just kids being kids.

Less than one page later, and this thread has gone from a verifiable destructive and dangerous act at a predominantly white school, and become about "those kids" in other schools. This is white supremacy in action - any excuse to move the blame to Black people and exonerate the whites.

I don't think so; there was a white supremacy incident of spray paint on WJ and in the neighboring area. WJ rallied against hate. As for the Senior prank reported here, it hardly sounds like an acutal Senior prank. Rather, if it happened, it sounds like vandalism.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

this is so true, One kid uses the N word at a W school and it makes the news. It gets used 1000 times a day at the poorer schools and it is just kids being kids.

Less than one page later, and this thread has gone from a verifiable destructive and dangerous act at a predominantly white school, and become about "those kids" in other schools. This is white supremacy in action - any excuse to move the blame to Black people and exonerate the whites.

I don't think so; there was a white supremacy incident of spray paint on WJ and in the neighboring area. WJ rallied against hate. As for the Senior prank reported here, it hardly sounds like an acutal Senior prank. Rather, if it happened, it sounds like vandalism.

I agree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Walter Johnson is a wonderful school, as has been explained in multiple threads on this forum if you bother to look. The only issue is that lots of other people think so too, and it's terribly overcrowded, but most core subject teachers are great and the administration is excellent. The kids are mostly all normal, decent, kids. They don't all throw their poo

I haven't heard of this prank, and I really don't think it's important enough to weigh in your decision to let your kids attend. Academics and daily crowds are what affect students the most. Also consider that in 2025 there will be another high school nearby, which is in construction today - Charles Woodward. The boundaries will have to be tweaked. I'm sure both school will be equally good, but I just want to let you know that your kids might not end up at WJ.

They have had their fair share and more of issues this year.

Hmm... I keep track of these things, and the multiple knife and guns found on MCPS high school students this year have been evenly distributed among a lot of schools. WJ has been pretty quiet in that area.
Sure, there's always the odd racist incident that is systematically blown out of proportion in wealthy white suburbs (because any excuse to bash on those schools), and completely ignored and swept under the rug in lower-income schools (because they're dealing with enough teen absenteeism and getting everyone to graduate that they don't even count racist slurs).
The sex scandal '22 was at Walt Whitman crew.
As for academic issues, frankly, WJ is doing better than most.

this is so true, One kid uses the N word at a W school and it makes the news. It gets used 1000 times a day at the poorer schools and it is just kids being kids.

Aside from the crux of the point, the difference is that the kid that is probably using the N-word at the W school is, well, White, and at "poorer" schools, it's not used as much as people think. Even if it is used, it's with a different, more harmful intent in mind. Common sense says that the people affected by the word get to use it in whatever way they want. Certain groups of people can't under ANY circumstance, and for good reason. So let's not use this as a time to excuse the n-word or try to bash on lower-income schools, because whether they use it or not doesn't automatically predict their academic and overall achievement at all. Please and thanks.

"...because any excuse to bash [on] those schools" these racist incidents there aren't odd or "systemically blown out of proportion" - it's what's done every day at those schools and people are calling it out, not bashing. It deservedly gets attention because of the historical context and reputation of those schools. What the poster is trying to do is obviously use coded language such as "teen absenteeism" and "getting everyone to graduate" as though their standards are lower and talented students are not there, so excuses should be made for them. It's constant on this forum and it's quite frustrating, not to mention sickening, as adults set the tone and kids pick up on it. This comes from someone who went to East County schools from K-8th and a W for HS, so I've seen both sides. Again, this isn't the main point, but wanted to call it out.