Maybe RMHS shouldn’t be allowed out on their lunch break

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The now effective thing would be or the restaurants to ban the teens if they don’t feel the business is worth the hassle. That would correct the behavior PdQ!

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Anonymous wrote:If they can’t act like civilized human beings. Currently there is a group from RMHS standing on a table at Roy Rogers yelling and acting like idiots. Manager just had to call the Police.

Or maybe parents could raise their kids to be respectful in public establishments. Remember, these are neighborhood kids. What they do at lunch, they also do after school and on the weekends.

+1. That's the second incident of bad RM students bad behavior during open lunch posted on this board in the past month or so. I said it then and I say it now, the principal needs to start cracking down. Find the kids who are misbehaving and forbid them to leave during open lunch. All these kids need to start having consequences.

-RM parent

Agree. I am also an RM parent. Principal needs to address this. It can’t be hard to figure out who the kids are and crack down. The kids who are causing trouble should not be allowed to leave school during lunch for 30 days.

Open lunch is a privilege. If kids are abusing that privilege, the kids need to lose that option.

How exactly is the principal going to prevent kids from leaving during lunch? What type of incidents would warrant not letting the students leave? What would happen if the students didn't report to lunch detention? Would MCPS support expelling students if they leave anyway? RM has thousands of students. It would take a huge amount of time and effort to actually make this happen.

Umm, what? The principal can absolutely revoke privileges for certain students.

But only if they know who the students are. If the businesses don't have security cameras and don't think it is important enough to have security or file a police report, how is the principal supposed to do anything?

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt the surrounding businesses would be happy about closed lunch. The Panera, Starbucks and that pizza place probably get half their business from those kids. I can’t tell you how much money I am pouring into those places because the cafeteria at RM is unusuble and the vending machines have been broken all year.
I’m sure that out of the thousands of kids there, there are st least a couple dozen jerks. That’s true of almost any collection of thousands of people.

Om's Indian restaurant at Ritchie Center has an RM lunch special my DC gets. $5 (or used to be) for a lunch special.

The businesses absolutely love the HS lunch crowd. Some are smart enough to plan for and manage it, others, not so much. I know the 7-11 has security at the door and only lets in 2 HS students at a time during lunch. I've seen the line of kids waiting outside. They have an extra cashier and quickly get the kids in and out.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt the surrounding businesses would be happy about closed lunch. The Panera, Starbucks and that pizza place probably get half their business from those kids. I can’t tell you how much money I am pouring into those places because the cafeteria at RM is unusuble and the vending machines have been broken all year.
I’m sure that out of the thousands of kids there, there are st least a couple dozen jerks. That’s true of almost any collection of thousands of people.

Om's Indian restaurant at Ritchie Center has an RM lunch special my DC gets. $5 (or used to be) for a lunch special.

The businesses absolutely love the HS lunch crowd. Some are smart enough to plan for and manage it, others, not so much. I know the 7-11 has security at the door and only lets in 2 HS students at a time during lunch. I've seen the line of kids waiting outside. They have an extra cashier and quickly get the kids in and out.

True. DC says it’s funny the way they move them through. Like gimme your money and get out! But not in a rude way.