My child has a friend at YHS who said she didn’t go to the game because she does not think homecoming is “safe” with the level of drinking and bad behavior from kids. I though that seemed over the top. But the post above suggests maybe not. |
It is over the top |
https://www.arlnow.com/2021/10/11/yorktown-principal-decries-unacceptable-behavior-at-homecoming-game/
If true, this could be prosecuted criminally. ACPD should be involved and investigate. APS doesn't have to carry the water on this. |
Where did you guys go to high school? Utopia? This is so tame compared to the things that went on when I was in high school. YHS is a great school and my kids turned out fine. |
Doesn't matter whether YHS is a great school or your kids turned out great too. If the reporting is accurate, it could be a crime. ACPD is supposed to investigate potential crimes, not a school system. If the reporting is inaccurate, someone should says so and explain what happened. |
The tolerance for kids behaving badly at Yorktown is well beyond what would be tolerated at W-L or Wakefield. Kids routinely show up drunk and rowdy at school events and adults just turn a blind eye. Past time they start to clean up their mess. |
I live in the district and my kids go to private. A bunch of rich, white, entitled country club brats. No thanks. |
If you haven’t witnessed this at WL, Wakefield, or any other area high school your eyes haven’t been open. And as you can see if you’ve read the linked statement from the principal, it isn’t being tolerated. |
I'm glad to hear a school publicly say that it's not okay to make sexual references and touch girls. I mean, wow! How long it has taken to tell the parents and high schoolers that girls shouldn't be objectified.
And to an above poster who said that 'in our day' we drank peach schnapps in the bathroom. I did that, too, but 2021 is a different time. It's one thing to be obnoxious while drunk but harassing a girl and touching her just perpetuates a culture that it's okay to do this. I hope these kids get routed out and suspended. |
^^this is such a dumb post. |
For the inappropriate touching, should be reported to the police imo |
That is a change. And it’s only gone on so long because the parents constantly make excuses and lawyer up. So let me repeat for those in the back: the behavior at Yorktown has been MUCH worse than at W-L and Wakefield for years. You know very well kids at Wakefield, in particular, are held to a different standard. |
+1 |
You are right! There parents should do the responsible thing like you did and sent your rich, white, entitled country club brats to a private school where things like this happen but at least they have the good sense not to let it get aired to the public. |
Lol. No. |