| A Whitman neighbor told me over the weekend that classes this year are overcrowded because there is a program to bring students in from Baltimore. Is there any truth to that? I googled and didn’t find anything and it seems odd that there would be something outside the county. She said that most of her classes this year have about 30-35 kids in them. |
Exactly! |
Wheaton and Einstein aren't filled with kids whose parents were snowflakes and shrinking/shrieking violets. |
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Whitman is probably the wealthiest school in an already wealthy county. For that reason, they have been vilified and guilted into taking various low income, disruptive students. Because why should well-off kids from nice backgrounds be able to live peacefully huh? They should be forced to live in terror too.
Now you see the end result of supposedly "compassionate" programs. It's really just score settling and old vendettas come to life. Resentment for the achieving and functional class and punishment for their children. If Whitman parents dont do something about this they should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. |
The facility where many of these troubled teens live has been there for the better part of a century, far longer than the homes most of the "well off kids" you seem to think should own the neighborhood. |
| Every "fight" in Moco high schools is the same. Why does the county tolerate so much racially-motivated violence in its schools? It is always the same group head-stomping and assaulting other students. It is insane that the county is allowing so much racial hate in its schools. The county needs to address all the violence being perpetrated by this particular group. And these particular students need to be expelled and charged in court and put away for a long time. |
So what? However long it's been there, if they cannot and will not act in a civilized manner, it's time to stop subsidizing it and allow the kids who's parents have actually paid to have property in the school district get a decent education without fear of being curb stomped in the bathroom. Have some basic empathy |
But I assume you are ok with that sort of subsidized housing in other parts of the county? |
If it's more aligned with the socio economic backgrounds of the students and not going to cause this kind of thievery and animosity, sure. Putting these kinds of kids among relatively sheltered offspring of nerdy government policy wonks is like feeding them to the wolves. The kids are utterly shocked by the level of savagery and totally unequipped to deal with it. |
Would skipping a step and shipping them off to a juvenile detention center elsewhere be better for you? |
| I don’t believe the students are from the homeless shelter. They seem to be in a different program for troubled juveniles that is relatively new. DC says they never go to class and fight among themselves frequently. Nobody seems to be doing anything to address the problem. |
| Who are these kids? They should be put in jail. They beat up a kid AND made a video of the beating?? And then shared the video?? How dumb are they? |
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The victim did go to the hospital but after the fact. Not in an ambulance directly from school.
The suspects need to be permanently expelled. |
So he wasnt in an ambulance... meaning someone just put him in a car and drove him? |
| This is awful. I cannot believe that kids are not safe to use tbe freaking bathroom. These kids should be arrested for assault and put in jail asap! No kid should have to endure this. The kid could have easily gotten brain damage.. |