Rising Crime/Safety Issues on Metro - concern for your HS student?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:were the six Wilson students Black?

Who cares? That has nothing to do with the fact that the District Attorney should resign in disgrace for not pursuing this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:were the six Wilson students Black?

Who cares? That has nothing to do with the fact that the District Attorney should resign in disgrace for not pursuing this case.

X2 yeah didn't see appoint in asking this questions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We are daily Metrorail commuters and so is DC. Safety is not a concern, especially since we're not afraid of public school students. Plus DC is not traveling at peak youth travel times that might increase the chances of petty beefs. A Wilson student was stabbed today after driving to school. It would be absurd to worry about driving as a result or to fear Cleveland Park and Tenleytown as hotbeds of crime.

Whoa! What does that mean?

It means what it says. I am not the OP, but the city is doing the public a tremendous disservice by not prosecuting the thugs that attacked the guy on the Metro a few months ago. I don't think it is a coincidence that they are Wilson students and there has been an apparent spike in violent crime in the vicinity of Wilson and the Tenleytown neighborhood.

If the crime took place in Gallery place and they are Wilson students, does that mean they don't live in Wilson's boundary? Can they be kicked out of school and forced to attend their local high school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:were the six Wilson students Black?

Who cares? That has nothing to do with the fact that the District Attorney should resign in disgrace for not pursuing this case.

Tenleytown Metro definitely doesn't feel so safe right before school and after Wilson lets out. Seems like something DCPD and Metro Transit Police could do something about. Tell the kids to get to school or get going home so you don't have a bunch of kids loitering near that Panera.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While safety is always going to be a concern, I know my children can't live in a bubble forever. I've let my high schooler take the bus to the metro for the past two years to attend an after school class in Tenley and plan to keep doing so unless she tells me she's uncomfortable. I rode the T in Boston when I was in high school and loved the freedom it afforded me. I saw a lot more (in terms of crime and unusual people) than my friends who had parents driving them everywhere but I was also much more self sufficient than others when I got to college and that was a good thing. Talk to your kids about dangers and give them strategies to confront situations but let them figure things out too. I'm not advocating dropping them off in a high crime neighborhood at midnight or anything but I think allowing them to metro or bus to school or activities in high school is fine.

Living in a bubble and being attacked by a group of kids beating you ate two different things. The AU student was murdered. Google crime in DC metro. It's out of control this year. I wouldn't take that risk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:were the six Wilson students Black?

Who cares? That has nothing to do with the fact that the District Attorney should resign in disgrace for not pursuing this case.

Tenleytown Metro definitely doesn't feel so safe right before school and after Wilson lets out. Seems like something DCPD and Metro Transit Police could do something about. Tell the kids to get to school or get going home so you don't have a bunch of kids loitering near that Panera.

Again, the case of the 6 students arrested for a metro assault (then not charged) did NOT happen at Tenley. The fact that you don't like 2000+ kids (between Deal and Wilson) being released from school at the same time and heading in the same direction may impact which Panera you decide to frequent and at what time.

Have you ever been IN the Panera at the time? Then you know how it is handled. You can unclench your pearls now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why is this on the private school forum?

Because Metro is a principle method of transportation for many private school kids?

And where some of the unsullied have to mix with the sullied masses.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are daily Metrorail commuters and so is DC. Safety is not a concern, especially since we're not afraid of public school students. Plus DC is not traveling at peak youth travel times that might increase the chances of petty beefs. A Wilson student was stabbed today after driving to school. It would be absurd to worry about driving as a result or to fear Cleveland Park and Tenleytown as hotbeds of crime.

Whoa! What does that mean?

It means what it says. I am not the OP, but the city is doing the public a tremendous disservice by not prosecuting the thugs that attacked the guy on the Metro a few months ago. I don't think it is a coincidence that they are Wilson students and there has been an apparent spike in violent crime in the vicinity of Wilson and the Tenleytown neighborhood.

If the crime took place in Gallery place and they are Wilson students, does that mean they don't live in Wilson's boundary? Can they be kicked out of school and forced to attend their local high school?

DC public HS school students ride Metro for free throughout the city. You as a taxpayer picked up their fare so they could commit that crime. Nice, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are daily Metrorail commuters and so is DC. Safety is not a concern, especially since we're not afraid of public school students. Plus DC is not traveling at peak youth travel times that might increase the chances of petty beefs. A Wilson student was stabbed today after driving to school. It would be absurd to worry about driving as a result or to fear Cleveland Park and Tenleytown as hotbeds of crime.

Whoa! What does that mean?

It means what it says. I am not the OP, but the city is doing the public a tremendous disservice by not prosecuting the thugs that attacked the guy on the Metro a few months ago. I don't think it is a coincidence that they are Wilson students and there has been an apparent spike in violent crime in the vicinity of Wilson and the Tenleytown neighborhood.

If the crime took place in Gallery place and they are Wilson students, does that mean they don't live in Wilson's boundary? Can they be kicked out of school and forced to attend their local high school?

Of course they can, and of course they should.

Now, what do you think it's more important for Bowser and Kaya: to get votes outside Wilson's boundary, or to educate kids who live in Wilson's boundary?

[Anonymous]

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/73022524-story

Here's another incident. To answer op, no I would not send my child on the metro and I do not take the metro.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are daily Metrorail commuters and so is DC. Safety is not a concern, especially since we're not afraid of public school students. Plus DC is not traveling at peak youth travel times that might increase the chances of petty beefs. A Wilson student was stabbed today after driving to school. It would be absurd to worry about driving as a result or to fear Cleveland Park and Tenleytown as hotbeds of crime.

Whoa! What does that mean?

It means what it says. I am not the OP, but the city is doing the public a tremendous disservice by not prosecuting the thugs that attacked the guy on the Metro a few months ago. I don't think it is a coincidence that they are Wilson students and there has been an apparent spike in violent crime in the vicinity of Wilson and the Tenleytown neighborhood.

If the crime took place in Gallery place and they are Wilson students, does that mean they don't live in Wilson's boundary? Can they be kicked out of school and forced to attend their local high school?

Of course they can, and of course they should.

Now, what do you think it's more important for Bowser and Kaya: to get votes outside Wilson's boundary, or to educate kids who live in Wilson's boundary?

You know the answer to that question and it make sense right? kids who live in Wilson boundary usually won't have a problem with education because Wilson isn't the best option.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure your kid is safer on Metro than in a car, especially if driven by a teen. People are so fearful.....sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure your kid is safer on Metro than in a car, especially if driven by a teen. People are so fearful.....sad.

Not on a Metro 1000 series car they are not. They are still rolling, 7 years after the red line crash. Given the number of incidents, I think students are more endangered by the deterioration of the Metro systems operations versus crime. But they both seem to be headed in the wrong direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure your kid is safer on Metro than in a car, especially if driven by a teen. People are so fearful.....sad.

Not on a Metro 1000 series car they are not. They are still rolling, 7 years after the red line crash. Given the number of incidents, I think students are more endangered by the deterioration of the Metro systems operations versus crime. But they both seem to be headed in the wrong direction.

I would imagine more people are killed or injured in car crashes in DMV than on Metro or by crime on Metro but I have no numbers to back it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure your kid is safer on Metro than in a car, especially if driven by a teen. People are so fearful.....sad.

Not on a Metro 1000 series car they are not. They are still rolling, 7 years after the red line crash. Given the number of incidents, I think students are more endangered by the deterioration of the Metro systems operations versus crime. But they both seem to be headed in the wrong direction.

I would imagine more people are killed or injured in car crashes in DMV than on Metro or by crime on Metro but I have no numbers to back it up.

Plus public transportation reduces traffic, carbon emissions. The greater good counts! And teens need freedom, which has risks.