Assault at Wilson today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

So, if the kids need police supervision when school is over and there are zero demands on them- we are still fine with a ratio of 25 kids to
1 teacher from 8-3? If the kids are wild at 3:30- they’ve been so all day.

More like 40 kids per teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That’s not ok that kids are unfazed. It’s trauma or mental illness or something else but it’s not normal

The original poster said her child was shaking at pickup. Someone else came along and sussed out from a parked car that all the other kids were just fine. She has no idea they were all fine. She has no idea who was fazed and unfazed. And, she doesn't know how kids should look/react when hearing this kind of news.

So, I'd focus on what happened and the kid that got injured and not try and psychoanalyze all the other teens in school.

Yeah, that was a dumb statement. You can't tell from looking at a group of kids whether they are "fazed" or not. What do you expect to see? Sobbing, tearing out of hair, rending of garments?

[Anonymous]

I am a Wilson parent and did not receive any communication from the school. Did anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
That’s not ok that kids are unfazed. It’s trauma or mental illness or something else but it’s not normal

The original poster said her child was shaking at pickup. Someone else came along and sussed out from a parked car that all the other kids were just fine. She has no idea they were all fine. She has no idea who was fazed and unfazed. And, she doesn't know how kids should look/react when hearing this kind of news.

So, I'd focus on what happened and the kid that got injured and not try and psychoanalyze all the other teens in school.

Yes! Exactly my thoughts in reading this.

[Anonymous]

Is there any public report or news story of what happened? If not, still a lot of speculating here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would they choose to hit him with a laptop?

I’m not saying it’s not horrible, it clearly is, but also super weird.

They are probably the school issued laptops. Because while it sounds like a good idea to give every kid a laptop, many do not treat them well. I worked at a school years ago that gave out laptops and found out that a bunch had been sold by students and ended up in Puerto Rico.

[Anonymous]

Physical violence is up at my daughter's middle school also. Administration says that it is because of kids having been out of school and needing to adjust.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

Yep..so a teacher can take kids out for a stroll like normal humans on a fine day. But for some reason the school/police/Wilson parents/Mary Cheh have decided that outside of Wilson at dismissal is a scene from Purge. Only neighbors with their eyes and wits about them are alarmed and raise objections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

To be fair, in my experience there is always a police presence at Wilson dismissal. Sometimes the officers are in cars, though. Also, I’ve never tried to distinguish between school security and MPD officers. Maybe there’s a division of duties of which we are not aware.

Lot of good that has done this kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

What good do you think that will do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

What good do you think that will do?

Disincentive assault? Are you seriously asking this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

What good do you think that will do?

Disincentive assault? Are you seriously asking this?

Yes, because we know it doesn't work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

Less police, not more please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Physical violence is up at my daughter's middle school also. Administration says that it is because of kids having been out of school and needing to adjust.

Serious assault reported recently at Montgomery County high schools, including BCC and Blair...look at the postings in that forum. Doesn't excuse any of it but it is not DCPS or Wilson specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There should be police presence in front of the school all day- including 1 hour before and after pick up and dismissal.

Less police, not more please.

I agree strongly with having police less involved with mental health and other situations where social workers would be more appropriate. I also think that cops in elementary and probably middle schools are a bad idea.

However, as someone who attended a high school much more violent and worse run than Wilson, I was delighted when they assigned a cop full time to my school many years ago. Having an adult in the school with the actual training to intervene in the crime that was going on (and arrest people when needed) was great. And, when a small number of kids were arrested and didn't come back, the school changed for the better.