Tenleytown Wawa Fight

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone see this? 300 kids is crazy!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyb4nnyxlo1/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This is the welcoming Ward 3 that Matt Frumin promised you. Promises made, promises kept!

Why the hell not?

These kids know the city council and mayors office intentionally created conditions where kids face:

- zero consequences.

Why not break shit and rampage?

Guess DC politicians want it this way.

I think it's pretty shocking that the police report just sort of dismissed the whole thing. I mean, police were on the scene, the whole thing must be on video feed and the kids easily identifiable. I don't care if they were black, white or some other color kid brawling--it's inappropriate and there should have been some kind of consequence for the ones brawling. Maybe it was a he said, she said situation--but names should have been taken and parents called. A warning at the least. How would a parent even know if their kid was involved?

I think it’s one of those situations that sounds worse that it actually was.

Football game lets out and a hundred or so kids mulling around.

Someone starts beef and throws some punches. Some friends on both sides jump in.

Police break it up and send the kids away. No one was seriously hurt and importantly for DC in this day and age, no weapons were brandished.

Seems like everything was handled the way I would expect.

The bigger concern is if this leads to a longer term need where one kid plots revenge. That’s how kids end up murdered in this city.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people on here want to focus this discussion on Tenleytown and others on Dc in general. DC is experiencing high crime at the moment, there's no doubt about that when you look at the statistics. Most of NW DC, as in the past decades, is mainly insulated from that. Again, see the stats. There is no rash of carjackings, shootings, drug turf wars, etc in upper NW DC. I went to high school in this area in the late seventies and until recently, had kids in DCPS schools around Tenleytown. Back in the day, there was a lot more underage drinking, plenty of weed use and more teenage pregnancy. Kids driving under the influence seems to have also been much, much higher. Fights occurred at schools just like today. I remember going to some of the first Ft. Reno concerts; there was mayhem afterwards with stoned, drunk kids with cigarettes dangling from their mouths seeking the closest party after each event. Today, parents come to functions like those concerts and bring their kids! The number of unhoused people has gone way up but that's everywhere. Retail has struggle around here [like in many places] since online shopping became popular.
There is certainly more diversity today: There are way more Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups living in the formerly all-white neighborhoods of upper NW although this part of DC could still be labeled Caucasia as we used to do - decades ago. I think some people are triggered by seeing large groups of African American students at JR HS and hanging out at adjacent Tenleytown. Several decades ago, kids hang out even more - remember, there was no internet and as I remember it, there was much less helicopter parenting and kids could "free range" more than they are allowed to now. So things have changed as everywhere does but what strikes me, having lived here as a youth and returned decades later, is how much it has stayed the same.

100% this.

Do you really think that people who choose to live in DC are triggered by large groups of African Americans YES, or could it be large groups of seriously misbehaving teens LOL ONLY THE BLACK ONES ARE CONCERNING? You're so clearly a tedious NW DC apologist, a overly defensive JR parent, or both. NOT SURE WHAT A NW DC APOLOGIST IS BUT DEF NOT A JR PARENT

So you can hop inside people's minds and spell out what they are thinking in ALLCAPS?

Shouldn't you have been at the Chevy Chase Civic Core tonight complaining about the city's plan to trade you one brand new community center and library for a little bit of affordable housing and how that will just be the absolute end of your world?

What is the “Chevy Chase Civic Core”? Do you even live in this area?

It's the phrase that triggers people like you who refer to it as the Chevy Chase Commons.

Huh? No one refers to it as that either. Way to out yourself.

Did you click the link? It's to the ANC website. Which has a whole page dedicated to the Civic Core. A term used by lots of folks in the area to describe that area w/ the library and community center. Here's another from a group of different backgrounds of area residents. Here's one from the Ward's CM. The ones who call it the Commons and bristle at the "civic core" are those that that signed the NIMBY petition and tried to enforce restrictive covenants established by a white supremacist over a 100 years ago.

“Civic Core” is the term that planning is using. It is not a term that anyone actually uses. Like, “let’s go to the CC Civc Core” or “i’ll meet you at the Starbucks in CC Commons” is not something anyone has ever actually said. What it indicates to me is that you spend all of your time online and perhaps don’t live in the area so you don’t know anyone or talk to real people in the area.

Planning has been holding meetings themselves and within the ANC for *years* at this point where they call it the Civic Core. Of course no one in the area says they are going to the Civic Core - they are either going to the Community Center or the Library or maybe fencing. But the *property* has at this point been referred to as the Civic Core so damn much. The "Commons" crap is what the nimby folks came up with because they hate OP so much they had to have their own branding for it.

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38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see this? 300 kids is crazy!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyb4nnyxlo1/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

This is the welcoming Ward 3 that Matt Frumin promised you. Promises made, promises kept!

Why the hell not?

These kids know the city council and mayors office intentionally created conditions where kids face:

- zero consequences.

Why not break shit and rampage?

Guess DC politicians want it this way.

I think it's pretty shocking that the police report just sort of dismissed the whole thing. I mean, police were on the scene, the whole thing must be on video feed and the kids easily identifiable. I don't care if they were black, white or some other color kid brawling--it's inappropriate and there should have been some kind of consequence for the ones brawling. Maybe it was a he said, she said situation--but names should have been taken and parents called. A warning at the least. How would a parent even know if their kid was involved?

I think it’s one of those situations that sounds worse that it actually was.

Football game lets out and a hundred or so kids mulling around.

Someone starts beef and throws some punches. Some friends on both sides jump in.

Police break it up and send the kids away. No one was seriously hurt and importantly for DC in this day and age, no weapons were brandished.

Seems like everything was handled the way I would expect.

The bigger concern is if this leads to a longer term need where one kid plots revenge. That’s how kids end up murdered in this city.

Sure. That is a totally valid bigger concern in DC. When we don't intervene a little more robustly, we are saying as a society that we are OK with kids ending up in the bigger concern places... today, or down the line. But if you don't draw some line when it's little stuff, we all know it turns into bigger stuff. Maybe that's why JR has been called Yale or Jail for so many decades.

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Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

Better yet, if an out of boundary student commits a major infraction then s/he should be removed from the OOB school and sent back to the on-boundary school. And to proceed from one feeder division to the next, the student should maintain at least a C average. The privilege of attending an OOB school shouldn’t be wasted on troublemakers and lazy slackers.

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Something tells me you meant that for a different thread...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

Better yet, if an out of boundary student commits a major infraction then s/he should be removed from the OOB school and sent back to the on-boundary school. And to proceed from one feeder division to the next, the student should maintain at least a C average. The privilege of attending an OOB school shouldn’t be wasted on troublemakers and lazy slackers.

This is a very good idea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

Better yet, if an out of boundary student commits a major infraction then s/he should be removed from the OOB school and sent back to the on-boundary school. And to proceed from one feeder division to the next, the student should maintain at least a C average. The privilege of attending an OOB school shouldn’t be wasted on troublemakers and lazy slackers.

This is a very good idea

How about if they are sent to an alternative school for kids who routinely commit major infractions? when did we stop doing that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

Better yet, if an out of boundary student commits a major infraction then s/he should be removed from the OOB school and sent back to the on-boundary school. And to proceed from one feeder division to the next, the student should maintain at least a C average. The privilege of attending an OOB school shouldn’t be wasted on troublemakers and lazy slackers.

This is a very good idea

How about if they are sent to an alternative school for kids who routinely commit major infractions? when did we stop doing that?

It just came out that the police union completely lied about his incident. There were about 50 kids, and only a few involved in a fight. It was not a crazy out of control situation. It was kids fist fighting. I'm not suggesting that that's ok, but I am suggesting that all of this talk about "out of bounds" and out of control kids was a fabrication. Unfortunately, they are not admitting that it was overblown. I heard the updated story on the City Cast podcast, which is great if you don't listen.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people on here want to focus this discussion on Tenleytown and others on Dc in general. DC is experiencing high crime at the moment, there's no doubt about that when you look at the statistics. Most of NW DC, as in the past decades, is mainly insulated from that. Again, see the stats. There is no rash of carjackings, shootings, drug turf wars, etc in upper NW DC. I went to high school in this area in the late seventies and until recently, had kids in DCPS schools around Tenleytown. Back in the day, there was a lot more underage drinking, plenty of weed use and more teenage pregnancy. Kids driving under the influence seems to have also been much, much higher. Fights occurred at schools just like today. I remember going to some of the first Ft. Reno concerts; there was mayhem afterwards with stoned, drunk kids with cigarettes dangling from their mouths seeking the closest party after each event. Today, parents come to functions like those concerts and bring their kids! The number of unhoused people has gone way up but that's everywhere. Retail has struggle around here [like in many places] since online shopping became popular.
There is certainly more diversity today: There are way more Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups living in the formerly all-white neighborhoods of upper NW although this part of DC could still be labeled Caucasia as we used to do - decades ago. I think some people are triggered by seeing large groups of African American students at JR HS and hanging out at adjacent Tenleytown. Several decades ago, kids hang out even more - remember, there was no internet and as I remember it, there was much less helicopter parenting and kids could "free range" more than they are allowed to now. So things have changed as everywhere does but what strikes me, having lived here as a youth and returned decades later, is how much it has stayed the same.

100% this.

Do you really think that people who choose to live in DC are triggered by large groups of African Americans YES, or could it be large groups of seriously misbehaving teens LOL ONLY THE BLACK ONES ARE CONCERNING? You're so clearly a tedious NW DC apologist, a overly defensive JR parent, or both. NOT SURE WHAT A NW DC APOLOGIST IS BUT DEF NOT A JR PARENT

So you can hop inside people's minds and spell out what they are thinking in ALLCAPS?

Shouldn't you have been at the Chevy Chase Civic Core tonight complaining about the city's plan to trade you one brand new community center and library for a little bit of affordable housing and how that will just be the absolute end of your world?

What is the “Chevy Chase Civic Core”? Do you even live in this area?

It's the phrase that triggers people like you who refer to it as the Chevy Chase Commons.

Huh? No one refers to it as that either. Way to out yourself.

Did you click the link? It's to the ANC website. Which has a whole page dedicated to the Civic Core. A term used by lots of folks in the area to describe that area w/ the library and community center. Here's another from a group of different backgrounds of area residents. Here's one from the Ward's CM. The ones who call it the Commons and bristle at the "civic core" are those that that signed the NIMBY petition and tried to enforce restrictive covenants established by a white supremacist over a 100 years ago.

“Civic Core” is the term that planning is using. It is not a term that anyone actually uses. Like, “let’s go to the CC Civc Core” or “i’ll meet you at the Starbucks in CC Commons” is not something anyone has ever actually said. What it indicates to me is that you spend all of your time online and perhaps don’t live in the area so you don’t know anyone or talk to real people in the area.

Planning has been holding meetings themselves and within the ANC for *years* at this point where they call it the Civic Core. Of course no one in the area says they are going to the Civic Core - they are either going to the Community Center or the Library or maybe fencing. But the *property* has at this point been referred to as the Civic Core so damn much. The "Commons" crap is what the nimby folks came up with because they hate OP so much they had to have their own branding for it.

It’s hard to take OP seriously when official actions of the former deputy mayor (DMPED) who oversaw OP and the former planning director are under scrutiny by federal investigators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

Why is my IB kid in a trailer if 38% are OOB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

The city just kicked out a huge percentage of the in-boundary students and sent them to MacArthur to ensure that a large percent of both schools will always be out of boundary (the feeder middle-schools won't come close to filling up either highschool). A lot of people missed that that was what MacArthur was about - making sure that Ward 3 doesn't have a local high school, and that all the high schools in Ward 3 are de facto city-wide schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

The meaning of the idiom ‘nip it in the bud’ is to stop, cease, or prevent something at the beginning or early phase, before it becomes too difficult or unmanageable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

The city just kicked out a huge percentage of the in-boundary students and sent them to MacArthur to ensure that a large percent of both schools will always be out of boundary (the feeder middle-schools won't come close to filling up either highschool). A lot of people missed that that was what MacArthur was about - making sure that Ward 3 doesn't have a local high school, and that all the high schools in Ward 3 are de facto city-wide schools.

I have been following this. MacArthur isn't up and running yet, so this is a future thing?
However this is what I predict--MacArthur will be all in-bounds (it's hard to get to), JR will be even more OOB.
No?

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Anonymous wrote:38% school is out of boundary. Just eliminate that and I guarantee you’ll see crime decrease in tenley.

Sorry but it needs to be said.

If that won’t happen, there should be cops all over Tenley for a year the nip it in the butt.

The meaning of the idiom ‘nip it in the bud’ is to stop, cease, or prevent something at the beginning or early phase, before it becomes too difficult or unmanageable.

Take back Tenleytown!