When a student returns to the school building, is an AP or security checking IDs as schools claim they do of each and every student at start of school in morning? |
And what about actually distributing it to each of those many many classrooms? Schools are huge. If lockdown isn't everyone supposed to stay put? If shelter in place, same? |
The kids with the guns are not black and not poor. |
Surely you jest. |
This was during the shelter in place phase. Lockdown everyone goes to a corner and sits quietly with the door blocked and blinds closed. Shelter in place is just do not leave the classroom. I assume staff delivered the meals to each classroom. |
Seriously; we don't hear about violence like happening at Whitman, WJ or Churchill. Why is this? Is it because BCC is more urban and accessible by metro/bus etc? I thought BCC was just as good a school as the other three mentioned above. |
Every time someone says “checking IDs is stupid, my kids flashed a chik-fil-a gift card and got in” I want to ask them if they seriously want to have their kid stand in a line with 2,000 other kids so security can check their ID against faces of kids they know attend the school. The IDs serve a purpose to keep unknown kids out. Kids that go to the school who are known by security because they walk by every year for four years straight don’t need IDs checked in detail every day. If the school wants to keep a kid who attends the school out of the building they will let security know. If a kid that security doesn’t recognize tries to enter the building, they will ask for that kids ID. |
Nonesense is right. All I remember last year is the head of the PTSA attacking some poor mom on the listserv for not "checking her privilege" when the mom suggested maybe BCC needed more resource officers. This was after either a gun or bomb threat. Can't remember. These incidents began to blend together. No child has ever been punished as far as I know at BCC. Restorative Justice is a joke. Parents weren't allowed to know if the carjacking kids were allowed back to school. I'm glad my child has graduated and is at a safe college. |
The only good schools are W schools however don't worry MCPS wants to ensure diversity and change the composition to include alternative school participants |
I had one kid at WJ and one at BCC. BCC draws a certain portion of its student population from lower-income areas, more than any of the W schools. It also has more economic and social diversity than the other Bethesda/Potomac schools. Also, it's more urban, which makes it a frequent center of violence during games, because kids can easily come and go from the metro station. But regarding violent behavior of certain kids at BCC... it's a little more complicated. Last year one violent kid was a transplant from another area of MCPS, who had been passed around from school to school because he kept getting into trouble. It was BCC's turn. Nothing to do with our own population of kids. Some other bad behaviors do come from BCC-area kids, and I'm sorry to say, they're mostly from the lower-income end of the range. With all that this implies: unstable home situations, undiagnosed mental health needs, possible affiliation with gangs, etc. Education is just not a priority for them. |
You're not paying attention. This fight at Whitman just made the news: https://www.fox5dc.com/video/1590551 And a student was apprehended with a gun at Walter Johnson last school year: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/10/24/walter-johnson-high-school-student-arrested-monday-with-loaded-gun-on-campus/ |
Didn't PPs say the video circulating had white kids fighting? Kids that attend a "diverse" "W" BCC? |
Speaking of the B-CC PTA list serv, this topic has been pretty silent on the board other than the passing along of the lockdown itself. In the past, there would be plenty of discussion but no longer. It certainly adds to a further disconnect to the school, even though I have never posted there. Frequently, I shared many of the same feelings of others who did post. I miss the PTA President from 2022-2023 school year. |
We do.... |
Oblivious, I guess, Bethesda parent here. All I see is wealthy, upper middle class families in this town. Where are lower-income kids with gang affiliations living?? |