Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin

[Anonymous]

How is this still going on???!!! What the hell is wrong with you all? Find a hobby, please!

[Anonymous]

Well, b/cause real young lives are involved. A lot of us are waiting for word that these kids will be OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, b/cause real young lives are involved. A lot of us are waiting for word that these kids will be OK.

Then talk to their parents. Or the school administrators if you don't know the kids. At any rate the word you are waiting for will not be posted here and whether they are 'ok' may not be clear for a few years.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you not click if you are not interested. Others may have insight. I am still waiting for an appeal to be granted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you not click if you are not interested. Others may have insight. I am still waiting for an appeal to be granted.

Then you likely will wait for a long time. It's clear that WL has the legal authority to suspend and to expel students. And given the gravity of the offense, a bomb threat sent to the entire school community, any reviewer is going to defer to the school's considered judgment in this matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add on, admissions teams spend a lot of time not just choosing kids but building a class. You make it sound like they are frothing at the mouth to reject kids they accepted. If anything, the opposite.

Dream on. Admission letters are pulled all the time for lesser things -- and both the applicant and the school have an obligation to notify the college about disciplinary actions.

This. Unlike most of you, I have worked in admissions and we would absolutely withdraw an acceptance to a student who was expelled for sending a bomb threat to 500+ people. We have many, many qualified students to choose from in building a class. There is no way any admissions professional I know would welcome a student who committed a crime such as this. And make no mistake. This was a criminal act, whether the students were arrested and prosecuted or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To add on, admissions teams spend a lot of time not just choosing kids but building a class. You make it sound like they are frothing at the mouth to reject kids they accepted. If anything, the opposite.

Dream on. Admission letters are pulled all the time for lesser things -- and both the applicant and the school have an obligation to notify the college about disciplinary actions.

This. Unlike most of you, I have worked in admissions and we would absolutely withdraw an acceptance to a student who was expelled for sending a bomb threat to 500+ people. We have many, many qualified students to choose from in building a class. There is no way any admissions professional I know would welcome a student who committed a crime such as this. And make no mistake. This was a criminal act, whether the students were arrested and prosecuted or not.

+1

[Anonymous]

This story from the Philadelphia area might be of interest to the few people still following this thread.

http://6abc.com/education/police-chester-student-in-custody-after-posting-online-threat-/1175433/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This story from the Philadelphia area might be of interest to the few people still following this thread.

http://6abc.com/education/police-chester-student-in-custody-after-posting-online-threat-/1175433/

Reading this, it's clear that these ex-Latin students are darned lucky that they haven't been arrested and charged criminally so far.

[Anonymous]

You all are awesome. Basically at a time when tons of DC youth seem to be playing the knock out game on the metro, two kids with good track records who made a bad mistake ( not physical assault, not rape, not plagiarism) a really dumb "joke" have no chance and should have no chance of rebuilding their futures. Hope folks are as merciful with you when you/your kids goof up.

[jsteele]

Another student made bomb threats to a DC charter school:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/boy-is-charged-with-making-bomb-threats-at-southeast-dc-school/2016/01/27/08db64ec-c514-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html

Obviously, this is not completely comparable to the Latin situation, but this kid was arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are awesome. Basically at a time when tons of DC youth seem to be playing the knock out game on the metro, two kids with good track records who made a bad mistake ( not physical assault, not rape, not plagiarism) a really dumb "joke" have no chance and should have no chance of rebuilding their futures. Hope folks are as merciful with you when you/your kids goof up.

Agreeing with the punishment DOES NOT mean that I don't want them to have a chance to rebuild their lives.

[Anonymous]

I am the parent of 4 teens--1 in college, 2 in HS, 1 in MS--and a psychologist specializing in adolescents who works a lot with "at risk" youth. My husband is a developmental pediatrician. We discussed this story and both of us agreed whole-heartedly that if any of our children, or our patients, pulled this kind of stunt we would be FURIOUS about the expulsion--at the child, for getting themselves expelled. 17 is old enough to know that using a Muslim student's email to send in a bomb thread--a federal offense!--is completely unacceptable on so many levels. It's not like these kids are being executed. Their lives are not over.
Frankly a lot of the reaction here reminds me of cases in which boys assault girls and then people get up in arms about how the boys lives have been ruined. Well, action have consequences, and perhaps you should have thought of that--yes, at 17, yes, even with a not fully developed brain--before you behaved abhorrently towards another human being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am the parent of 4 teens--1 in college, 2 in HS, 1 in MS--and a psychologist specializing in adolescents who works a lot with "at risk" youth. My husband is a developmental pediatrician. We discussed this story and both of us agreed whole-heartedly that if any of our children, or our patients, pulled this kind of stunt we would be FURIOUS about the expulsion--at the child, for getting themselves expelled. 17 is old enough to know that using a Muslim student's email to send in a bomb thread--a federal offense!--is completely unacceptable on so many levels. It's not like these kids are being executed. Their lives are not over.
Frankly a lot of the reaction here reminds me of cases in which boys assault girls and then people get up in arms about how the boys lives have been ruined. Well, action have consequences, and perhaps you should have thought of that--yes, at 17, yes, even with a not fully developed brain--before you behaved abhorrently towards another human being.

::applause::

[Anonymous]

Work with at risk youths too OP? Not sure what special clarity you think that sheds. These were your basic run of the mill teens. From what I've heard, these kids had no idea the student was Muslim, "jokes" were flying on the internal list serve, and these kids transition has been unaided. When your kids mess up do be furious at them. Kids should walk on egg shells in a world w/ no mercy.