Fight btw BCC & WJ students after game @ 8:30 Friday night

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Anonymous wrote:Every WJ/BCC basketball and football game. Just means they'll impose more restrictions going forward.

It's just another strong indicator of MCPS decline when students at these schools act like gang members.

It’s likely because they ARE gang members.

Quite possibly.

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Anonymous wrote:Messaging from principals of the two schools in an email today is that there were large groups of students from both schools fighting. This is NOT the case. Several WJ students who were either alone or in a small groups were brutally jumped/attacked by larger mobs of others. They may or may not have all been BCC students as the aggressors.

My children were at the game (WJ students) and both shared that the game itself felt safe and well-managed. Attendance was limited AND the game started earlier than other games during the season.

There is a strong possibility that many of the aggressors in Bethesda were not even at the game and just waited for it to get out.

The principals font write those emails. They were written by central office. They could have said what we saw which is that bad actors from one school stalked and assaulted students from another school in a premeditated gang attack.
But people would wake up to that and what it means real quick.
This is more of the mcps hidden agenda

Or letting the police conduct their investigation while avoiding risk of libel?

Because there's no one to sue for the lie "a large group of fighters on both sides" sounds like trump with his both sides.

Nowhere did the email say any WJ students were fighters. At the time the email was drafted they probably hadn’t seen all the video nor had a chance to even identify the students yet. Probably still haven’t.

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Anonymous wrote:There's at least one other video circulating on Instagram of the events - it's longer than the one posted at the top of this thread and it show multiple people on the ground being kicked and stomped. The video shows a pretty big crowd - 20 people at least including a number of girls who are throwing punches and stomping someone. Some of the assailants can be clearly identified. The police and school authorities should have lots of evidence. It sounds like the schools did a lot to try to prevent this from happening; maybe they just need to ban student attendance at games altogether? It's outrageous.

Btw there was a BCC student last year who beat another student with a chair. It made the news and provoked a thread here at the time. One of my DCs graduated from BCC in May and I was shocked to hear the kid's name called for graduation - and he got huge cheers from the crowd. Despite the fact that he'd been violent repeatedly during his time at BCC. I have another kid still at BCC and I think it's a fantastic school in many ways. But there's something really wrong, obviously.

This is exactly the problem. Imagine being allowed to beat another student with a chair and graduate from that school.

There are no consequences for vile criminal behavior and that is directly the result of the school board.
People need to wake up.
If you care about nothing else you should at least care that bad schools drive property values down.

The in school incident is an mcps issue but this was not on mcps property and at the metro. This is a police issue and a parenting issue. Child should be arrested and charged as an adult. Mcps needs more security but mcps is not to blame for this if it is not on property.

Property values es are the least of my concern. Safety is. Maybe these things are happening as the parents are not focused on their kids and their behavior.

Get this through your head:
It ceases to become a parenting issue when it effects my children. Now it's a societal issue and I expect the system including both the schools and the police to protect my children.

I could give a flying fig less about thugs mom and dad issues.

You need to protect your own kids as if you are expecting others to it’s not going to happen. This did not happen at school and police cannot be everywhere.

The basic reason people elected to be governed and pay taxes was for protection. If you're okay with living in a county that doesn't understand metro need police protection after a rivalry game then you are part of the problem.

People who stayed silent about removing SROs, about demonizing all police and not just bad police, are a huge part of the problem. This county's leadership is hostile toward law enforcement and state leadership passed several laws that makes it almost impossible to question and arrest juveniles. Sadly, juveniles are committing a huge share of the violent crime. So where do we go from here?

C’mon you know SROs have absolutely nothing to do with this but you just take any opportunity to complain that we need more police.

Police have been lionized in this country for decades and I just can’t believe they would refuse to do their jobs unless they are immune to criticism.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at the game and security seemed very good. Student fans were in dedicated sections at opposite ends of the stadium. WJ student fans left just before game ended, and BCC student fans asked to stay after for 15 mins and performance of (terrific) student dance group. Plenty of security on site.

I disagree and was also at the game. I left slightly early along with many kids. It was pretty clear that MoCo needed much more police presence on the street by that point.

Not enough police anymore to provide necessary security.

My child was at the game and hanging out in Bethesdalast night. She said there were tons of police officers everywhere around Bethesda Row. The problem here isn’t a lack of officers but perhaps too many on the Bethesda Row side and not enough by the metro, where there have been fights before.

Protecting property...

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Anonymous wrote:I was at the game and security seemed very good. Student fans were in dedicated sections at opposite ends of the stadium. WJ student fans left just before game ended, and BCC student fans asked to stay after for 15 mins and performance of (terrific) student dance group. Plenty of security on site.

I disagree and was also at the game. I left slightly early along with many kids. It was pretty clear that MoCo needed much more police presence on the street by that point.

Not enough police anymore to provide necessary security.

My child was at the game and hanging out in Bethesdalast night. She said there were tons of police officers everywhere around Bethesda Row. The problem here isn’t a lack of officers but perhaps too many on the Bethesda Row side and not enough by the metro, where there have been fights before.

Also what time was this? The fight was very close to the end of the game. So police were on the scene after the fight and in a different location.

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I was told that there were police everywhere after the game and they did absolutely nothing to stop this incident. They were standing around watching. That is infuriating. Perhaps they were too busy giving out citations for unregistered dogs. Why is anyone surprised? This is a shame. Also, if these kids are such badasses, maybe they should try out for the football team instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Every WJ/BCC basketball and football game. Just means they'll impose more restrictions going forward.

It's just another strong indicator of MCPS decline when students at these schools act like gang members.

It’s likely because they ARE gang members.

Quite possibly.

Tell me you’ve always lived west of the park without….

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every WJ/BCC basketball and football game. Just means they'll impose more restrictions going forward.

It's just another strong indicator of MCPS decline when students at these schools act like gang members.

It’s likely because they ARE gang members.

Quite possibly.

Tell me you’ve always lived west of the park without….

"west of the park" is not a thing in Montgomery County.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at the game and security seemed very good. Student fans were in dedicated sections at opposite ends of the stadium. WJ student fans left just before game ended, and BCC student fans asked to stay after for 15 mins and performance of (terrific) student dance group. Plenty of security on site.

I disagree and was also at the game. I left slightly early along with many kids. It was pretty clear that MoCo needed much more police presence on the street by that point.

Not enough police anymore to provide necessary security.

My child was at the game and hanging out in Bethesdalast night. She said there were tons of police officers everywhere around Bethesda Row. The problem here isn’t a lack of officers but perhaps too many on the Bethesda Row side and not enough by the metro, where there have been fights before.

I picked up my kid and bunch of other students from the chipotle near the metro, and the area was covered with police officers.

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From 2020-2023 these 2 schools fight after the football game; either ban spectators from the game or have it at a neutral site.

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Last year there were no students from other schools allowed at games unless they were with an adult. Any games. It was a little irritating when my teen wanted to watch her friend from another school pitch in a softball game. I think maybe worldwide tjeee have been zero instances of violence breaking out after a girls’ softball game. (Well , maybe among the softball dads.).

There are a lot of sad things here but one sad thing is that some kids felt strongly enough about a dumb made up school rivalry to ruin their own lives and the lives of others.

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Anonymous wrote:They need to ban students from the games. Just allow the hard working teams to play their sport, and allow parents to attend. Maybe students with a parent. That’s it.

That's an bs answer to a real problem with allowing thugs to get off Scott free.
The cheerleaders, band members, athletes, pom squads, dance teams, etc work very hard. Instead of doling out consequences to the the criminals, the hard workers should be punished?
Sounds just like more of the politicians behind the current state of decline

I have kids in some of the groups mentioned, and it sounds like your kid might be very happy to be at the games. I find it completely upsetting that many of these kids get lectures from the adults to ignore and not engage with the student sections of their own school because they are so rude to them. Short way of saying, not all the kids above would penalized. It’s kind of rough on them too.

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Wilson WJ and BCC are notorious schools for post-game fights. Sad to see but it’s not all kids just a small group.

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Games need to be in daylight. After school. Maybe on Saturday mornings

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new BCC parent here. Not going to send my kid to any more games and won't attend.