Gang Activity in Montgomery County Shcools?

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If you want to ignore the Hispanic population in the DCC we are never going to have an honest conversation.

Blair - 33.5% Hispanic
Einstein - 49.7% Hispanic
Wheaton - 52.3% Hispanic
Northwood - 54.0% Hispanic
Kennedy - 55.5% Hispanic

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http://wjla.com/news/local/police-ms-13-member-arrested-with-large-knife-outside-albert-einstein-high-school

Surprise surprise, who would have guessed something like this would happen in the DCC? Wait 16 pages of people save for the people foolish enough to buy in the DCC who pretend that it isn’t an issue and call everybody else racist. Your kids are hanging out with them no matter if he just happened to be arrested that day

Nope, my high-achieving IB kid at Einstein is not hanging out with some girl's 24-year-old ex-boyfriend. There are 1800 kids at Einstein. If you'll read closely you'll see this man is not one of them. Take your sarcastic digs at my school elsewhere. Should we all be concluding that WJ and Whitman are dangerous because kids there died by suicide, or Wootton is dangerous because kids got into a drunk driving crash? No, that would be unfair. Because it's unfair to pass judgment on a whole school, a whole town, or yes, a whole race based on what you see on the news.

Yah there is no gang problem at Einstein, not one of 900 (50%) poor Latinos at the school are involved in anyway. How silly of us to make that leap, GL pp

I have no idea if there is a gang problem because my child is completely unaffected and succeeding. And get your facts straight: it's technically 28% low income Latino. You cited the 50% statistic for overall percentage of Latinos because you assume they're all poor. Classy.

Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

I get it, you don't want your children to study at Einstein. But that doesn't mean their aren't plenty of wonderful kids there. There are also plenty of houses for sale in the school zone that you would have to be solidly middle class to afford. And there are plenty of families with kids there who are thriving, engaged and happy. Don't move there. But why drag down others who are happy there? I see a lot of posts in this forum from people who seem to want to knock down and disparage DCC. They just can't believe people could possibly have happy, fulfilling lives there.

Just different definitions of fulfilling. The PP was more about the moron who doesn’t know how to read charts and or numbers and claims there is no problem because she has “no idea”. Simply agreeing that she had no idea

[Anonymous]

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Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

Who is "most people"? I assume that when you say, "most people", you actually mean, "most people like me". But there are plenty of people who are not like you -- starting, most obviously, with the parents of the kids you don't want in your kid's peer group because they're Latino and poor. Have you talked to any such parents about peer group aspirations?

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Anonymous wrote:Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

This is extremely mean spirited. Not everybody has the means to live next to a W school. That doesn't mean we don't want the best for our children. We don't need rich assholes to point out how well they are doing compared to the rest of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

This is extremely mean spirited. Not everybody has the means to live next to a W school. That doesn't mean we don't want the best for our children. We don't need rich assholes to point out how well they are doing compared to the rest of us.

Of course, there is also the question of whether a high school in Bethesda or Potomac is what's best for our children, and whether the students at those schools, as a group, are a group we aspire for our our kids to resemble.

(Keeping in mind that I've met plenty of nice kids from Whitman. But then I've also met plenty of nice kids from Watkins Mill.)

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Anonymous wrote:Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

This is extremely mean spirited. Not everybody has the means to live next to a W school. That doesn't mean we don't want the best for our children. We don't need rich assholes to point out how well they are doing compared to the rest of us.

I guess it is the double speak hypocrisy that bugs people about parents of say a school like Einstein which causes them to put reality up front in their faces. If you listen to the bubble parents they act like Einstein is some middle-class haven full of kids who have lawyer or fed parents when it isn’t. One doesn’t get to claim that it is some gem in the rough when it is really filled with 70% kids on or have been on FARMs. One doesn’t get to claim that gangs are made up by horrible west county parents when issue after issue happens and the area has an exploding illegal immigrant population.

Parents new to the area deserve the truth and not some sugary glass half full BS from some parent more worried about their resale of the shit shack in the burbs.

[Anonymous]

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If you want to ignore the Hispanic population in the DCC we are never going to have an honest conversation.

Blair - 33.5% Hispanic
Einstein - 49.7% Hispanic
Wheaton - 52.3% Hispanic
Northwood - 54.0% Hispanic
Kennedy - 55.5% Hispanic

Posted from another thread

http://wjla.com/news/local/police-ms-13-member-arrested-with-large-knife-outside-albert-einstein-high-school

Surprise surprise, who would have guessed something like this would happen in the DCC? Wait 16 pages of people save for the people foolish enough to buy in the DCC who pretend that it isn’t an issue and call everybody else racist. Your kids are hanging out with them no matter if he just happened to be arrested that day

Some of us bought before the gang activity picked up.

BS there has always been problems due to the quantity of poverty. Only differenc is it has shifted from black gangs in the 90s to Latino gangs now. The other noticeable shift has been the deconcentration of the areas accessible to the poverty and how that affects the former middle class areas. progressive policy and the Urbanization trends has shifted desirability away from the suburbs leaving a vacuum being filled with this. I wouldn’t want to own a house along university blvd

Lucky you, apparently you don't realize that blacks still murder at rates 4-8 times higher than Latinos.

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Can we agree that there are nice hardworking kids at every MCPS school? And that a decent education is available to the kids who want to work for it at any MCPS school?

But the bottom line is that gang presence is bad for everyone. Teachers readily tell us there are gangs and recruiting as young as middle school. And the recent Einstein case involved a girl whose Ex BF was ms 13. She was in fear- and told them so at school allegedly.

We shouldn’t have gang presence at or around schools. What can we do?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we agree that there are nice hardworking kids at every MCPS school? And that a decent education is available to the kids who want to work for it at any MCPS school?

But the bottom line is that gang presence is bad for everyone. Teachers readily tell us there are gangs and recruiting as young as middle school. And the recent Einstein case involved a girl whose Ex BF was ms 13. She was in fear- and told them so at school allegedly.

We shouldn’t have gang presence at or around schools. What can we do?

You mean there's a middle ground, and although there is a gang problem in some schools, they are not hell holes and other teenagers can be happy and thriving there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we agree that there are nice hardworking kids at every MCPS school? And that a decent education is available to the kids who want to work for it at any MCPS school?

But the bottom line is that gang presence is bad for everyone. Teachers readily tell us there are gangs and recruiting as young as middle school. And the recent Einstein case involved a girl whose Ex BF was ms 13. She was in fear- and told them so at school allegedly.

We shouldn’t have gang presence at or around schools. What can we do?

Zero tolerance.

End the "restorative justice" BS.

Signed,

Hispanic immigrant.

[Anonymous]

Class warfare on full display

[Anonymous]

School digger says 45 percent on farms. But maybe that is old data.

No dog in this fight but there are plenty of neighborhoods with feds and professionals zoned for Einstein. Yes some poor kids for sure but you are really cherry picking demographics.

No matter, I absolutely love the anti Einstein DCUM poster who gets so outraged on the every thread! So funny.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

This is extremely mean spirited. Not everybody has the means to live next to a W school. That doesn't mean we don't want the best for our children. We don't need rich assholes to point out how well they are doing compared to the rest of us.

I guess it is the double speak hypocrisy that bugs people about parents of say a school like Einstein which causes them to put reality up front in their faces. If you listen to the bubble parents they act like Einstein is some middle-class haven full of kids who have lawyer or fed parents when it isn’t. One doesn’t get to claim that it is some gem in the rough when it is really filled with 70% kids on or have been on FARMs. One doesn’t get to claim that gangs are made up by horrible west county parents when issue after issue happens and the area has an exploding illegal immigrant population.

Parents new to the area deserve the truth and not some sugary glass half full BS from some parent more worried about their resale of the shit shack in the burbs.

I always figured this is why snobs from the Western part of the county pile onto DCC schools. FWIW, I don't live in either area, but it makes no sense that you are so concerned with what goes on in SS other than trying to protect your own investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we agree that there are nice hardworking kids at every MCPS school? And that a decent education is available to the kids who want to work for it at any MCPS school?

But the bottom line is that gang presence is bad for everyone. Teachers readily tell us there are gangs and recruiting as young as middle school. And the recent Einstein case involved a girl whose Ex BF was ms 13. She was in fear- and told them so at school allegedly.

We shouldn’t have gang presence at or around schools. What can we do?

+100

I'm the PP who lives in Silver Spring and agree with everything you said.

Also agree about the zero tolerance. The PBIS/restorative justice is crap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School digger says 45 percent on farms. But maybe that is old data.

No dog in this fight but there are plenty of neighborhoods with feds and professionals zoned for Einstein. Yes some poor kids for sure but you are really cherry picking demographics.

No matter, I absolutely love the anti Einstein DCUM poster who gets so outraged on the every thread! So funny.

It also says 68% have been on FARMs recently

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your reading comprehension is very Albert Einstein-ish, that is 28.8% of the school is on FARMs while Latino. Not 28.8% of the Latinos are on FARMs. So to help you a little bit with math, if there are 1748 kids at Einstein that means 867 of them are latino and 503 of them are very poor which is close to 60%. While that isn’t 100%, I would wager a bet the other 40% are still pretty poor consider most kids at Einstein come from working class to middle at best.

Not Exactly the peer group most people aspire for their kids but better than say Kennedy

This is extremely mean spirited. Not everybody has the means to live next to a W school. That doesn't mean we don't want the best for our children. We don't need rich assholes to point out how well they are doing compared to the rest of us.

I guess it is the double speak hypocrisy that bugs people about parents of say a school like Einstein which causes them to put reality up front in their faces. If you listen to the bubble parents they act like Einstein is some middle-class haven full of kids who have lawyer or fed parents when it isn’t. One doesn’t get to claim that it is some gem in the rough when it is really filled with 70% kids on or have been on FARMs. One doesn’t get to claim that gangs are made up by horrible west county parents when issue after issue happens and the area has an exploding illegal immigrant population.

Parents new to the area deserve the truth and not some sugary glass half full BS from some parent more worried about their resale of the shit shack in the burbs.

I always figured this is why snobs from the Western part of the county pile onto DCC schools. FWIW, I don't live in either area, but it makes no sense that you are so concerned with what goes on in SS other than trying to protect your own investment.

Agreed. Sometimes they really tip their hand with certain comments.

My family lives in one of those s**t shacks.