Fights break out after BCC vs WJ Football game

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:THIS is what MCPS touts it Student Well-Being, Learning and Achievement department is tasked with: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/studentservices

Be Well 365 provides students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in six essential areas of physical, social, and psychological development that support academic growth and lifelong personal and career success. Through learning experiences embedded in the curriculum and school counselor lessons aligned to the needs of the students, Be Well 365 focuses on these long-term goals:

Greater student sense of well-being
Improved academic achievement
Greater student engagement with school
Improved student attendance
Reduced disciplinary offenses
All Schools, All Staff, All Students

Be Well 365 aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities in 6 essential areas through school-based programs, instruction, practices, and interventions:

Culturally Responsive Relationship Building
Mental and Emotional Health
Trauma-Informed Practices
Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices
Physical Health and Wellness
Character Education and Empathy

Learning activities in science, art, social studies, health and physical education, as well as professional development for all staff, support and guide the development of these 6 areas. Combining social and emotional learning with academic instruction contributes to greater student engagement and long-term academic success.

MCPS is explicitly involved in precisely the things that you say are the exclusive domain of the parents. If MCPS is going to be involved in behavior intervention and character education, we need to see results. Otherwise, butt out and give the money back and stop wasting everyone's time.

I don't think you know what it means to be a parent, that's why you're failing at it.

I don’t think you know how to read or think critically, that’s why you’re failing at it.

[Anonymous]

What's the official statement from WJ and BCC principals or newly hired Jones? Or are they waiting on MCPS communications to fine tune their letters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were they even students at either school? If this happened off school grounds, couldn't it be anyone? And why let these two teams play one another again this year??

Only students and families of the respective schools playing can attend MCPS athletic games after previous years where fights broke out due to students from other schools attending and causing trouble. So these are definitely BCC or WJ kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the official statement from WJ and BCC principals or newly hired Jones? Or are they waiting on MCPS communications to fine tune their letters?

They’re scrambling to explain how they find themselves in the exact situation they were in last year after promising to take additional measures and lessons learned to prevent this kind of thing from repeating again.

Chris Cram’s spin machine is in full overload, I’m sure.

[Anonymous]

They are students from both schools. Stop blaming one school. They had police out. Parents need to be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:majority were not or are not engaged in this, nor do they represent majority of the studrnt body.

Taylor:
1. A teen curfew in MoCo on Fall Friday Football game nights.
2. Have a "dismissal line" after games - have a car pick-up line only allowing students to leave with their parent/guardian picking them up in a car or by foot.

When you start doing this, send families coming up with solutions for you and MCPD a check for having to do your jobs!

Solid recommendations! Of course this means MCPS won’t dare to do it, because they lack common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a WJ parent so not defending anyone, but do we know this was initiated by BCC students as the initial poster suggests?

My child was at the actual game last year which was safe and handled well by security. She was terrified walking FROM the game away from the school where fights started. This year, she knew to avoid Georgetown Square after the game—something she doesn’t feel the need to do when they play other teams. Again, I understand the actual game was fine.

Is this happening when BCC plays other teams?

WJ did lose 21-12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the official statement from WJ and BCC principals or newly hired Jones? Or are they waiting on MCPS communications to fine tune their letters?

They’re scrambling to explain how they find themselves in the exact situation they were in last year after promising to take additional measures and lessons learned to prevent this kind of thing from repeating again.

Chris Cram’s spin machine is in full overload, I’m sure.

You mean Taylor is making a video??

Cram STILL there??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they even students at either school? If this happened off school grounds, couldn't it be anyone? And why let these two teams play one another again this year??

Only students and families of the respective schools playing can attend MCPS athletic games after previous years where fights broke out due to students from other schools attending and causing trouble. So these are definitely BCC or WJ kids.

How can you be so sure? Games can be attended by only those in the two team's communities, but didn't this happen after the game?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:[twitter] https://x.com/dcnewslive/status/1832255664086745402?s=46&t=mzn-7iRIS4UPOPckMj5nUw[/twitter]

It’s Deja vu. How many times are BCC kids going to be allowed to disrupt and assault freely after football games? You would have thought after how things got out of hand last year that things would be different this year, but nope, it’s more of the same.

Whatever MCPS did last year with those kids, which likely involved RJ, clearly didn’t work.

It takes at least 2 to fight. Why are you single out BCC students and not WJ students?

Don't be obtuse. It's always the BCC students that are assaulting kids from other schools. It's all over social media if you care to look.

BCC has a problem. And the administration and the police really need to crack down on their violent students. They know very well who they are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter] https://x.com/dcnewslive/status/1832255664086745402?s=46&t=mzn-7iRIS4UPOPckMj5nUw[/twitter]

It’s Deja vu. How many times are BCC kids going to be allowed to disrupt and assault freely after football games? You would have thought after how things got out of hand last year that things would be different this year, but nope, it’s more of the same.

Whatever MCPS did last year with those kids, which likely involved RJ, clearly didn’t work.

It takes at least 2 to fight. Why are you single out BCC students and not WJ students?

Don't be obtuse. It's always the BCC students that are assaulting kids from other schools. It's all over social media if you care to look.

BCC has a problem. And the administration and the police really need to crack down on their violent students. They know very well who they are.

Isnt that why they hired Jones and Taylor. Way to go, that team!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter] https://x.com/dcnewslive/status/1832255664086745402?s=46&t=mzn-7iRIS4UPOPckMj5nUw[/twitter]

It’s Deja vu. How many times are BCC kids going to be allowed to disrupt and assault freely after football games? You would have thought after how things got out of hand last year that things would be different this year, but nope, it’s more of the same.

Whatever MCPS did last year with those kids, which likely involved RJ, clearly didn’t work.

It takes at least 2 to fight. Why are you single out BCC students and not WJ students?

Don't be obtuse. It's always the BCC students that are assaulting kids from other schools. It's all over social media if you care to look.

BCC has a problem. And the administration and the police really need to crack down on their violent students. They know very well who they are.

You're suggesting same students causing problems in schools responsible for last night? Your source??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The game had a lot of police presence and security precautions. How exactly is MCPS supposed to control what kids do off-sight, after the game?

The fights and controlling the fights after the game is the explicit job of MCPD. But the education and behavioral adjustments and educations that is supposed to PREVENT these incidents from happening is squarely in the realm of MCPS, which purports to do so with its SEL lessons and Restorative Justices practices. I'm calling into question how those RJ practices and SEL lessons are working if year after year, student behavior does not change.

No. The police are responsible for arresting criminals and writing reports, not controlling fights. We live in a presumptively free country where people can choose to fight.

Making children non feral is a parent's job.

Making parents able to do that is society's job, so one working parent can afford to support a family while another parent raises the children and is engaged in the community, or working to pay someone to do it for them.

[Anonymous]

Someone at the two schools post your principal's letters! Let's dissect MCPS Communications office's BS words for this incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've had/have kids at both schools. Just remember that the immense majority of BCC and WJ students don't fight and think this behavior is obnoxious.

Also, and not naming names... but some adults in sports boosters tend to encourage a rah-rah aggressive culture that I do not appreciate and which might contribute to a sense of impunity from certain kids.

These kids aren't "booster" families or involved in football. They are there because everyone is there, and it's the place to see and be seen and be in the mix on a Friday night.

What’s your point? That’s most of the HSers.

What's your point?