Video of hallway brawls at Whitman

[Anonymous]

The problem is that teachers are held accountable for this violence because they cannot teach with this chaos going on on a daily basis. What the admin frame it as-teachers can't teach.

[Anonymous]

Why aren't Whitman parents banding together to demand action? They're a mostly well educated, umc group. I am shocked they are tolerating this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Finally got picked up by MoCo 360: https://moco360.media/2024/11/21/fight-walt-whitman-posted-to-social-media/

Wow Principal Gregory Miller is really downplaying this , saying they might get an infraction for beating the child wtf

Why do the rules not apply to the schools? If you are walking down the street and a couple of people come up to you and start hitting you, beating you up, kicking you in the head it’s not a fight. It’s assault.

The schools and principles and media keep minimizing this as a fight. I said it up thread, these kids need to be expelled, and some of them need to be sent to Juvie.

Because they have "treatment plans" and emotional disabilities that offer immunity for their crimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally got picked up by MoCo 360: https://moco360.media/2024/11/21/fight-walt-whitman-posted-to-social-media/

Wow Principal Gregory Miller is really downplaying this , saying they might get an infraction for beating the child wtf

Why do the rules not apply to the schools? If you are walking down the street and a couple of people come up to you and start hitting you, beating you up, kicking you in the head it’s not a fight. It’s assault.

The schools and principles and media keep minimizing this as a fight. I said it up thread, these kids need to be expelled, and some of them need to be sent to Juvie.

Sent to Juvie? They are already in a shelter for offenders.

Expelled. Out of the school system. Not assaulting other kids.

[Anonymous]

The NEW principal is 100percent in charge here- he has the power to send a message to the entire community right now. Press charges- put in more secure placement- juvenile detention. If that had happened in the neighborhood- those boys would be arrested. The principal has more power than people are giving credit- he told the football coach to go - and the man didnt viciously , attack, incite others, plan to assault, stomp anyones head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the parents don't take this to the news. If my kid was beat like that and there was video, it would be all over the local news channels. I'd hold a press conference to share what was or was not being done to resolve the situation.

Given that these kids are rumored to come from the group home, there are likely no parents involved to intervene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why the parents don't take this to the news. If my kid was beat like that and there was video, it would be all over the local news channels. I'd hold a press conference to share what was or was not being done to resolve the situation.

Someone said the kid being attacked was a younger kid from the same shelter program. (Although maybe not in the juvenile offender diversion program -- maybe he's just in the shelter program?). So he probably doesn't have parents that are in a position to complain, and also probably feels like he's in a "snitches get stitches" situation with those older boys. The school should really be more aggressive in those circumstances, not less. I don't know what the criteria are for being part of that diversion program, but "no fighting/assaults" would seem to be a reasonable condition to continue in the program. Watching that video, the aggressors do not seem to be in the right frame of mind to take advantage of a rehab/diversion program, so one would hope that the system would remove them and open those seats up to boys that are trying to put their lives on a different path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't Whitman parents banding together to demand action? They're a mostly well educated, umc group. I am shocked they are tolerating this.

A lot of parents don't have the time, interest or bandwidth to organize and push back. Parents' typically just quietly pull their kids out of MCPS in response to this crap. Oh and they talk about it at birthday parties and within the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally got picked up by MoCo 360: https://moco360.media/2024/11/21/fight-walt-whitman-posted-to-social-media/

Wow Principal Gregory Miller is really downplaying this , saying they might get an infraction for beating the child wtf

Why do the rules not apply to the schools? If you are walking down the street and a couple of people come up to you and start hitting you, beating you up, kicking you in the head it’s not a fight. It’s assault.

The schools and principles and media keep minimizing this as a fight. I said it up thread, these kids need to be expelled, and some of them need to be sent to Juvie.

Sent to Juvie? They are already in a shelter for offenders.

Expelled. Out of the school system. Not assaulting other kids.

There's no such thing as "expelled out of the school system." Expulsion means expulsion from a school within the system. And even that is only for a period of time and not permanent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't Whitman parents banding together to demand action? They're a mostly well educated, umc group. I am shocked they are tolerating this.

A lot of parents don't have the time, interest or bandwidth to organize and push back. Parents' typically just quietly pull their kids out of MCPS in response to this crap. Oh and they talk about it at birthday parties and within the community.

They are also afraid of being shouted down as racist elitist. They whisper on the sidelines and keep their kids off the bus, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't Whitman parents banding together to demand action? They're a mostly well educated, umc group. I am shocked they are tolerating this.

A lot of parents don't have the time, interest or bandwidth to organize and push back. Parents' typically just quietly pull their kids out of MCPS in response to this crap. Oh and they talk about it at birthday parties and within the community.

They are also afraid of being shouted down as racist elitist. They whisper on the sidelines and keep their kids off the bus, etc.

but you can't protect them in the bathrooms and hallways. awful!

[Anonymous]

Honestly let’s start encouraging some kids to get GEDs. They don’t want to be there anyway, might as well let them leave early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally got picked up by MoCo 360: https://moco360.media/2024/11/21/fight-walt-whitman-posted-to-social-media/

Wow Principal Gregory Miller is really downplaying this , saying they might get an infraction for beating the child wtf

Why do the rules not apply to the schools? If you are walking down the street and a couple of people come up to you and start hitting you, beating you up, kicking you in the head it’s not a fight. It’s assault.

The schools and principles and media keep minimizing this as a fight. I said it up thread, these kids need to be expelled, and some of them need to be sent to Juvie.

Sent to Juvie? They are already in a shelter for offenders.

Expelled. Out of the school system. Not assaulting other kids.

There's no such thing as "expelled out of the school system." Expulsion means expulsion from a school within the system. And even that is only for a period of time and not permanent.

Aren't there kids removed from BCC at Whitman?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why aren't Whitman parents banding together to demand action? They're a mostly well educated, umc group. I am shocked they are tolerating this.

A lot of parents don't have the time, interest or bandwidth to organize and push back. Parents' typically just quietly pull their kids out of MCPS in response to this crap. Oh and they talk about it at birthday parties and within the community.

They are also afraid of being shouted down as racist elitist. They whisper on the sidelines and keep their kids off the bus, etc.

This is definitely the case. We're in the Rockville Cluster and when the rape happened a few years ago, even the super came out and shouted down parents for being racist.

Lots of parents just quietly pull their kids out of MCPS because it's easier than trying to make changes in a corrupt, dysfunctional school system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Finally got picked up by MoCo 360: https://moco360.media/2024/11/21/fight-walt-whitman-posted-to-social-media/

Wow Principal Gregory Miller is really downplaying this , saying they might get an infraction for beating the child wtf

Why do the rules not apply to the schools? If you are walking down the street and a couple of people come up to you and start hitting you, beating you up, kicking you in the head it’s not a fight. It’s assault.

The schools and principles and media keep minimizing this as a fight. I said it up thread, these kids need to be expelled, and some of them need to be sent to Juvie.

Again, principals have full latitude for how they categorize incidents in their schools. If the principal says it's a fight, it's a fight. And MCPD backs off and doesn't question it.

They don't exactly have full latitude. The MOA identifies the situations in which law enforcement will get involved or not. For a physical altercation/fight MCPD has agreed to stay out of it unless the altercation resulted in injuries beyond what would be addressed in the school health room. The MOA is on the MCPS website. I encourage folks to read it.

Based on the MOCO360 article, it sounds like law enforcement did show up but MCPS is letting the school handle consequences.