Antisemitic incident at Blair

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

You want all kids to go to school in a prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

The kids don't care. The parents freak out about it.

Of course they care but they know better than to speak up and be targeted.

Oh. My. God. This incident literally came to the attention of the administration because a teen reported it.

I do not understand your commitment to victimization here, flying in the face of the actual facts.

[Anonymous]

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Re "sweeping it under the rug": Seems to me that this depends on something the article and letter do not address: WHEN did the incident occur? If it happened Thursday or Friday, seems like this was swift appropriate action to notify the community and involve the police. If it happened two weeks ago and the letter only when out, prompting the article, after people complained, that would be a problem. We just don't know.

And, while abhorrent, my read of the current law is that an arm movement would not qualify as a hate crime. Particularly if it wasn't done "at" someone with the intent to intimidate or threaten. Maybe it should, but it doesn't...

This goes on at the W's almost monthly and although you can find dozens of posts about it here nothing is ever done to change anything.

You keep posting about it but never provide a supporting source.

These incidents were well documented on this board. Just use the search function.

Talked about, sure, but not documented.

Search turns up

164 references to blackface & Whitman
81 references to N*word cards & Whitman

Seems well documented to me.

Two events?

And 90% of those references are the same poster bringing those two incidents up on a tangentially-relayed thread.

Hardly, I find it disgusting that these W schools get away with this pattern of behavior. We read about here almost monthly and it seems to be an ongoing problem for years. And now this W behavior spreading to places like Blair!

I guess the W kids are the trendsetters.

No. PP is just autistically smearing W schools in as many posts as he can due to his jealousy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

You want all kids to go to school in a prison.

This thread is about students outside on school grounds doing something that was filmed.

What PRECISELY do you think the school district could have done to prevent that?

[Anonymous]

I get that this is posted in the MCPS forum, but I’m stunnned by what people are focusing on. How about discussing:

Why are the kids engaging in this behavior?
What can parents do differently to prevent it?
How do we talk to our kids about it?

These seem to be a lot more pressing than the district’s response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

You want all kids to go to school in a prison.

Yes, if that’s what it takes to keep all students and staff safe. Better than the alternative which is violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get that this is posted in the MCPS forum, but I’m stunnned by what people are focusing on. How about discussing:

Why are the kids engaging in this behavior?
What can parents do differently to prevent it?
How do we talk to our kids about it?

These seem to be a lot more pressing than the district’s response.

The parents don’t know or care and this is the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

Yes, make public schools into kid prison. Instead of educating them just hire guards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

You want all kids to go to school in a prison.

This has been a longtime fantasy of the far-right as part of their effort to destroy public education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Re "sweeping it under the rug": Seems to me that this depends on something the article and letter do not address: WHEN did the incident occur? If it happened Thursday or Friday, seems like this was swift appropriate action to notify the community and involve the police. If it happened two weeks ago and the letter only when out, prompting the article, after people complained, that would be a problem. We just don't know.

And, while abhorrent, my read of the current law is that an arm movement would not qualify as a hate crime. Particularly if it wasn't done "at" someone with the intent to intimidate or threaten. Maybe it should, but it doesn't...

This goes on at the W's almost monthly and although you can find dozens of posts about it here nothing is ever done to change anything.

You keep posting about it but never provide a supporting source.

These incidents were well documented on this board. Just use the search function.

Talked about, sure, but not documented.

Search turns up

164 references to blackface & Whitman
81 references to N*word cards & Whitman

Seems well documented to me.

Two events?

And 90% of those references are the same poster bringing those two incidents up on a tangentially-relayed thread.

Hardly, I find it disgusting that these W schools get away with this pattern of behavior. We read about here almost monthly and it seems to be an ongoing problem for years. And now this W behavior spreading to places like Blair!

I guess the W kids are the trendsetters.

No. PP is just autistically smearing W schools in as many posts as he can due to his jealousy.

Given the antisemitism I am grateful my kids don’t go to a w school and we did that on purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Re "sweeping it under the rug": Seems to me that this depends on something the article and letter do not address: WHEN did the incident occur? If it happened Thursday or Friday, seems like this was swift appropriate action to notify the community and involve the police. If it happened two weeks ago and the letter only when out, prompting the article, after people complained, that would be a problem. We just don't know.

And, while abhorrent, my read of the current law is that an arm movement would not qualify as a hate crime. Particularly if it wasn't done "at" someone with the intent to intimidate or threaten. Maybe it should, but it doesn't...

It was conveniently done around the Jewish holidays. Kids behave this way as the adults either don’t care or encourage it. If it was done to other groups mcps would take a stand. But hate is ok to Jews, Asians and Muslims.

This doesn't address my point or my question? If this happened on Friday, what would you really expect to have been done more or different by Sunday?

I would expect the kids to be suspended, especially given the timing around the holidays. You seriously think this is ok?

If it happened on Friday at lunch and today is Sunday- do you think a suspension could be effected in that time and that the general public would know about it?

This is MCPS. Those kids won’t be suspended.

Maybe not. But with the ambiguity around timing I don’t see any evidence of “sweeping it under the rug”. And it seems silly to get pre-mad about what consequences will or will not occur. It also seems like focusing on the wrong thing. Seems to me we should be talking about the students who did it (and maybe their parents).

With all the W school incidents, did any of them get suspended?

Gets swept under the rug, and only half gets posted about here. Some more memorable ones were the N* word cards or the kids in blackface. Kind of disgraceful, really. There were a couple of antisemitic incidents at Churchill last year, too. It's not surprising it happens elsewhere once every couple of years.

It seems like all these hate incidents are now spreading to schools beyond just the W's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Re "sweeping it under the rug": Seems to me that this depends on something the article and letter do not address: WHEN did the incident occur? If it happened Thursday or Friday, seems like this was swift appropriate action to notify the community and involve the police. If it happened two weeks ago and the letter only when out, prompting the article, after people complained, that would be a problem. We just don't know.

And, while abhorrent, my read of the current law is that an arm movement would not qualify as a hate crime. Particularly if it wasn't done "at" someone with the intent to intimidate or threaten. Maybe it should, but it doesn't...

This goes on at the W's almost monthly and although you can find dozens of posts about it here nothing is ever done to change anything.

You keep posting about it but never provide a supporting source.

These incidents were well documented on this board. Just use the search function.

Talked about, sure, but not documented.

Search turns up

164 references to blackface & Whitman
81 references to N*word cards & Whitman

Seems well documented to me.

Two events?

And 90% of those references are the same poster bringing those two incidents up on a tangentially-relayed thread.

Hardly, I find it disgusting that these W schools get away with this pattern of behavior. We read about here almost monthly and it seems to be an ongoing problem for years. And now this W behavior spreading to places like Blair!

I guess the W kids are the trendsetters.

No. PP is just autistically smearing W schools in as many posts as he can due to his jealousy.

W's did that to themselves for all the hate incidents that go on like clockwork there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Re "sweeping it under the rug": Seems to me that this depends on something the article and letter do not address: WHEN did the incident occur? If it happened Thursday or Friday, seems like this was swift appropriate action to notify the community and involve the police. If it happened two weeks ago and the letter only when out, prompting the article, after people complained, that would be a problem. We just don't know.

And, while abhorrent, my read of the current law is that an arm movement would not qualify as a hate crime. Particularly if it wasn't done "at" someone with the intent to intimidate or threaten. Maybe it should, but it doesn't...

This goes on at the W's almost monthly and although you can find dozens of posts about it here nothing is ever done to change anything.

You keep posting about it but never provide a supporting source.

These incidents were well documented on this board. Just use the search function.

Talked about, sure, but not documented.

Search turns up

164 references to blackface & Whitman
81 references to N*word cards & Whitman

Seems well documented to me.

Two events?

And 90% of those references are the same poster bringing those two incidents up on a tangentially-relayed thread.

Hardly, I find it disgusting that these W schools get away with this pattern of behavior. We read about here almost monthly and it seems to be an ongoing problem for years. And now this W behavior spreading to places like Blair!

I guess the W kids are the trendsetters.

No. PP is just autistically smearing W schools in as many posts as he can due to his jealousy.

Given the antisemitism I am grateful my kids don’t go to a w school and we did that on purpose.

I think it's terrible that you are grateful for all the antisemitism at the W's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is no pleasing some people

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks. Why should our kids feel safe going to school? It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms.

Yes, they can. For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences. They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways. Lots they can do. They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.

Yes, make public schools into kid prison. Instead of educating them just hire guards.

Kids cannot learn if they don’t feel safe. If you have to be worried about being raped, assault or bullied, then what do you propose? The do nothing approach clearly is not working and not all of us can afford a $60k private.