Post-winter break fight at B-CC warrants comment from Jawando?

[Anonymous]

A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

Agree but that doesn't seem to be the policy anymore.

Sounds like Monday could be volatile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

What is MCPS’ policy on kids who have been kicked out of our schools? Do we just keep transferring them around?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

What is MCPS’ policy on kids who have been kicked out of our schools? Do we just keep transferring them around?

Yes
That IS the policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

What is MCPS’ policy on kids who have been kicked out of our schools? Do we just keep transferring them around?

Yes
That IS the policy.

The kid who was transferred from school to school also has an ankle monitor. Because he participated in this fight, shouldnt he go to some juvenile detention center at this point? Or is Jawando just going to push for more RJ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to tolerate Jawando. He has no right to comment on school safety after his fight to remove SROs from schools even though 100% of principals wanted them to stay.

Yeah, and he’s a real attention wh-re.

Your racism is showing

So one can’t criticize him without being a racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw this posted. If accurate, this was a serious fight involving students with prior serious issues.

“In this fight, the principal was knocked to the ground. The head of security was too and was pinned against the wall. He’s pretty seriously injured. Unknown when/if he will return to school.

It’s three kids in the fight, one is notorious for starting fights in and around school and never attending class. He severely beat a football player last year on a sidewalk by the school - sent the player to the hospital.

Another with an ankle monitor has been expelled from Clarksburg, Whitman, and Blair - where he found the principal’s home address and threatened her daughter. The suspension for the students ends Monday, when they will be back.

Lots of threats of retaliation. Security is afraid, teachers are talking about leaving. It’s the backstory that no one is willing to talk about that makes this a big deal. 

Police couldn’t make it when 911 was called because they were at another emergency

Additionally, two BCC students are currently being held without bond for armed carjackings (they are 18); more than 10 have been arrested for carjacking related offenses this school year.

BCC kids were part of the looting of the Nike store on Bethesda Row. Then there was the fight after the WJ game.

Finally, a BCC security team member was severely beaten two years ago. A lot of violent crime issues. Not sure how this compares to other schools but a lot of issues and arrests in recent years.”

People need to stop saying the incident after the WJ game was a fight. It wasn’t a fight. It was some kids from BcC that jumped and beat up some kids from WJ and BCC. That’s an assault not a fight.

I srpingly suspect that less than 1% of teens are causing more than 50% of the violence at these high schools. The teachers aren’t DOC employees—they shouldn’t have to work with repeat violent offenders. It’s ridiculous. The union should file a class action grievance, among other things that should happen here.

[Anonymous]

^^ the BCC/WJ fights have been happening for YEARS.

Our kids went to WJ (now college graduates), but there were bad fights at/after their games as well. You are naive if you think it was assaults and that it was a one-way or one-time thing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agreed that this site sensationalizes things....were there not fights in school when you grew up? Did they just all of a sudden stop when admin tried to break it up? No they did not. Relax and talk to your kids.

There were zero fights at my high school. Zero. So yes it is possible

[Anonymous]

What is the union doing about all this?

There are plenty of good kids at BCC. What are there parents doing about all this?

I’m so sorry for the principal and the head of security. They were trying to stop this and keep kids safe. Very scary.

The police must be able to help somehow?

Honestly, this simply has to change. Laws without enforcement are no laws at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw this posted. If accurate, this was a serious fight involving students with prior serious issues.

“In this fight, the principal was knocked to the ground. The head of security was too and was pinned against the wall. He’s pretty seriously injured. Unknown when/if he will return to school.

It’s three kids in the fight, one is notorious for starting fights in and around school and never attending class. He severely beat a football player last year on a sidewalk by the school - sent the player to the hospital.

Another with an ankle monitor has been expelled from Clarksburg, Whitman, and Blair - where he found the principal’s home address and threatened her daughter. The suspension for the students ends Monday, when they will be back.

Lots of threats of retaliation. Security is afraid, teachers are talking about leaving. It’s the backstory that no one is willing to talk about that makes this a big deal. 

Police couldn’t make it when 911 was called because they were at another emergency

Additionally, two BCC students are currently being held without bond for armed carjackings (they are 18); more than 10 have been arrested for carjacking related offenses this school year.

BCC kids were part of the looting of the Nike store on Bethesda Row. Then there was the fight after the WJ game.

Finally, a BCC security team member was severely beaten two years ago. A lot of violent crime issues. Not sure how this compares to other schools but a lot of issues and arrests in recent years.”

They’ll just keep moving him from school to school. RJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the union doing about all this?

There are plenty of good kids at BCC. What are there parents doing about all this?

I’m so sorry for the principal and the head of security. They were trying to stop this and keep kids safe. Very scary.

The police must be able to help somehow?


Honestly, this simply has to change. Laws without enforcement are no laws at all.

the union do something? that is a laugh!
despite what some believe, mcea is powerless to bring about any real change for teachers. never going to happen.
—mcea member

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A kid who got suspended from 3 high schools has no business being at BCC. He should be in an alternative school.

THIS. Parents should be in an uproar about these students who have multiple suspensions for dangerous behavior being allowed in mainstream public schools. Nothing will change until parents start asking hard questions, in writing and at public forums, and demanding to know why the small minority of dangerous students' rights trump the rights of other kids who are trying to learn. This is a huge reason why teachers are leaving the profession by the way.

The people who are saying there were zero fights at their high schools may be correct. However, if you went to school in the 80s or 90s or even early 2000s, understand that there has been a huge shift in how these issues are handled. Kids who didn't attend class or caused trouble, including physical alterations, were sent to other schools after the first serious offense. This has changed in the past 10 years or so and not for the better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to tolerate Jawando. He has no right to comment on school safety after his fight to remove SROs from schools even though 100% of principals wanted them to stay.

Yeah, and he’s a real attention wh-re.

Your racism is showing

So one can’t criticize him without being a racist?

Word choice matters.

[Anonymous]

If only Jawando didn't vote to remove SROs from within the HS, all while the Principal union sent a letter in support of keeping the SROs in the schools because they know what it's actually like in the school hallways, and not Jawando.

Maybe Jawando and Elrich can walk around the halls at BCC for the next month and break up the fights.