Student attacked with taser in Oakton HS locker room

[Anonymous]

Disturbing, incident, dialog, teachable, healing, all families involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools have to tread extremely carefully in all respects here. As a general matter, that means taking the greatest care to ensure the rights and privacy of alleged perpetrators too. Otherwise, the accused can collect jackpot verdicts or settlements.

The school is required to contact law enforcement for an assault like this. The school was made aware last Friday and did nothing until the following Wednesday when parents got the news involved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

*perps

[Anonymous]

This thread is too long to read, but I just wanted to say 99% of physical bullying probably occurs in boys locker rooms. Either ban locker rooms or have supervision in there. At what point do we stop ignoring this "safe zone" for bullys. This episode happens to have someone video taping, imagine all that occurs when someone doesn't happen to be video taping.

Can anyone in the school system comment on this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

*perps

GOOD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

*perps

GOOD.

The kids at Madison also know their names. The whole town knows at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

Good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So how were these kids unsupervised in a locker room long enough for this to happen? Do the supervision requirements for students change that dramatically in high school? In our middle school there is always a teacher with groups of students.

By high school they shouldn't need an adult in the locker room to prevent assaults. With all the allegations of sexual misconduct by teachers, I worry about having an adult loitering in the locker rooms, and I worry about the adult because there are also false allegation. I'm not sure what the solution is. Expecting one of the many witnesses to step up and get a responsible adult would seem like a reasonable expectation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lake Braddock has been rumored to have locker room issues as well. Just close the locker rooms if kids and their adult supervision can’t do better.

There is no reason why fcps shouldn't move to online PE for all or most kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d like the original video shared with the OHS community. It’s important that my kids know who the perps in their school are!

Weird that only the PTA sees the unfiltered version.

PTA should hold a community meeting about this! With Scott, Jamie, Doug, SRO, chief of police, DA. Why the heck not?! This was felony assault at our high school!

A large percentage of the student body know the peeps. Oakton freshman son rattled off 3 names. THEY are now being harassed on Snapchat.

*perps

GOOD.

The kids at Madison also know their names. The whole town knows at this point.

I have a kid at Chantilly who doesn’t know the kids but heard who they were in an EC that was discussing it. Oakton, Madison, Chantilly, etc all share the same screwed up feeder system, especially for AAP. I would never condone cyberbullying, and my kid is under strict instructions to leave it alone or rosk the phone being gone for the rest of the year. But I do wonder how they feel about the turnabout. Karma”s a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So how were these kids unsupervised in a locker room long enough for this to happen? Do the supervision requirements for students change that dramatically in high school? In our middle school there is always a teacher with groups of students.

By high school they shouldn't need an adult in the locker room to prevent assaults. With all the allegations of sexual misconduct by teachers, I worry about having an adult loitering in the locker rooms, and I worry about the adult because there are also false allegation. I'm not sure what the solution is. Expecting one of the many witnesses to step up and get a responsible adult would seem like a reasonable expectation.

The shouldn’t. But anyone who was ever in high school will tell you they do. In the boys locker room it’s physical. It the girls it’s mean girls and body shaming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OHS parent of a freshman.
I WILL update if and when the criminals returns to OHS. I truly could not feel safe if they do!

If they do, I will petition the SB to remove them. If this were a knife that had been used to stab ;but not attempt to murder) another student, my reaction would be the same

1. Kid brought a weapon to school
2. Two kids used this weapon to assault another.
3. Other students held the victim against his will to ensure he could be assaulted

I have premeditation; I have felony assault, I have accomplice to felony assault.

No way could the school ensure a safe and secure learning environment if they allow these criminals to walk the halls.

Thank tou. Please do, we need to have some facts to hold the school system accountable.

If you know the victim’s family, please tell them to get a lawyer who can apprise them of their rights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools have to tread extremely carefully in all respects here. As a general matter, that means taking the greatest care to ensure the rights and privacy of alleged perpetrators too. Otherwise, the accused can collect jackpot verdicts or settlements.

The problem with this approach is that the victim’s rights tend to be forgotten. So nope. Call police immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Schools have to tread extremely carefully in all respects here. As a general matter, that means taking the greatest care to ensure the rights and privacy of alleged perpetrators too. Otherwise, the accused can collect jackpot verdicts or settlements.

The school is required to contact law enforcement for an assault like this. The school was made aware last Friday and did nothing until the following Wednesday when parents got the news involved.

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