Fight btw BCC & WJ students after game @ 8:30 Friday night

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Anonymous wrote:Boys in fatherless homes do less well in life. They have plenty to rage about, including their single mothers with little if any authority, and her various boyfriends.

Absentee/ part time fathers can never be equal to a strong, loving and disciplined father in the home.

Kids who grow up with parents who are judgmental, angry and like to criticize other families tend to do very poorly when they grow up. I feel so bad for kids who have parents like the one above, they are going to grow up so messed up. It's really sad that they don't have a loving mother who demonstrates respect for other people and understanding of different circumstances.

This is a parenting issue regardless of the home situation. There were at least a dozen, if not more kids involved and given that there would be multiple family situations, all of which the parents failed to supervise and discipline their kids. MCPS should require parents to attend the football games or at least require the parents to pick them up if the kids cannot act responsibly. These incidents are happening far to frequently and if they are off MCPS property, MCPS cannot be blamed and parents need to be held accountable for their kids behaviors.

For all you know, the kids involved were never even actually at the game.

That is very true, and if so, then it really has nothing to do with MCPS. Especially given the timing.

If they are MCPS students harming other MCPS students, even if it’s outside of school grounds, it has to do with MCPS.

Yes. Why can’t MCPS adopt the same rules that the private schools follow, which is basically if you do anything anytime anywhere while you are a student at our school, and it brings dishonor to the school, you risk expulsion.

Because private schools can choose their students and set conditions on being a student. Public schools can't deny providing education to a child for any reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Heard the guy who got kicked has broken ribs.
There is a problem with crime in Montgomery County and you can thank Ehrlich and rhe far left progressives for giving away your hard built lives to people who didn't earn it

The low IQ Trumpanzee couldn’t hold it in. Focus on Trump advocating violence and that he deserves to be in jail.

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Anonymous wrote:Boys in fatherless homes do less well in life. They have plenty to rage about, including their single mothers with little if any authority, and her various boyfriends.

Absentee/ part time fathers can never be equal to a strong, loving and disciplined father in the home.

Kids who grow up with parents who are judgmental, angry and like to criticize other families tend to do very poorly when they grow up. I feel so bad for kids who have parents like the one above, they are going to grow up so messed up. It's really sad that they don't have a loving mother who demonstrates respect for other people and understanding of different circumstances.

This is a parenting issue regardless of the home situation. There were at least a dozen, if not more kids involved and given that there would be multiple family situations, all of which the parents failed to supervise and discipline their kids. MCPS should require parents to attend the football games or at least require the parents to pick them up if the kids cannot act responsibly. These incidents are happening far to frequently and if they are off MCPS property, MCPS cannot be blamed and parents need to be held accountable for their kids behaviors.

For all you know, the kids involved were never even actually at the game.

That is very true, and if so, then it really has nothing to do with MCPS. Especially given the timing.

If they are MCPS students harming other MCPS students, even if it’s outside of school grounds, it has to do with MCPS.

Yes. Why can’t MCPS adopt the same rules that the private schools follow, which is basically if you do anything anytime anywhere while you are a student at our school, and it brings dishonor to the school, you risk expulsion.

Because it's not private. Publics are legally required to educate everyone. They should allow expulsion or at least in a specialized program.

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Anonymous wrote:Heard the guy who got kicked has broken ribs.
There is a problem with crime in Montgomery County and you can thank Ehrlich and rhe far left progressives for giving away your hard built lives to people who didn't earn it

The low IQ Trumpanzee couldn’t hold it in. Focus on Trump advocating violence and that he deserves to be in jail.

Forget Trump. He's no longer relevant and not why this is happening despite his behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

A culture of entitlement and disrespect for authority starts at home. This has nothing to do with the pandemic and kids have been back in school for over two years now. Stop blaming the pandemic for bad parenting. Kids don't get this way overnight. This was many years in the doing, prior to covid and they know they can do it as there is no supervision or consequences at home. MCPS should require a parent or legal guardian to attend these games or close them to the public if students cannot behave without that level of supervision. But, even so, this happened off MCPS property so those "kids" were under the supervision of their parents so ultimately the parents failed somewhere and this didn't just happen 3 years ago. Plenty of kids DON'T behave this way and also went through the pandemic.

Your post is so opinionated and judgmental. Any experienced parent, or wise adult in general, knows that of course parenting matters but it's not everything. Kids are born with certain genetics that you can't always control. Or there are circumstances that you can't control. Experiences that they go through that you can't control. Plenty of well parented kids grow up to have many issues. And plenty of poorly parented kids grow up to be perfectly well adjusted and successful.

We all wish we could point the finger at someone for everything, but the reality is that you can't.

You really want to argue all of those kids are special needs and cannot be controlled. Then they should be in a residential program, like RICA or another program if the parents cannot handle them. Bottomline is where were the parents. They weren't supervising their kids after the football game and the kids violently attacked another. When your kids dress in all black and put masks over their faces, as a parent, that's not a red flag to you?

These are high school kids. Let's say, ages 14-18. Do you think it's inappropriate for kids aged 14-18 to be out in downtown Bethesda on a Friday evening without a parent?

I would not let my 14 year old free roam. 16-18 if they were well behaved sure. But, I expect to know exactly where they are and what they are doing. A 14 year old should not be freely roaming. This is why these things are happening. And, as a parent, if my kid was dressed in all black carrying a face mask common sense is something is seriously off and going to happen.

What exactly constitutes "freely roaming"? Would you expect your kid to text you, "outside the metro station committing assault"? Do you think the kids left home with their ski masks on?

I expect them to text me if there is a change of plans. I would never ever let my kid hang out at a place like that as I know what happens there. This isn't anything new. It was happening 25-40 years ago and still is. People acting shocked shouldn't be. This has always been a rough school hidden by the wealth of Chevy Chase and Bethesda.

You don't monitor what clothing your kids go out in or where they are? This is why this stuff is happening. Until they are 18 and graduated high school they are your responsibility.

Meaning, downtown Bethesda?

Considering BCC (and WJ) students have open lunch. This is extra ridiculous.

Open lunch for all high school students is indeed ridiculous. You should have to earn the privilege.

The privilege of eating lunch? And how do you think school staff should enforce this, and do you think this is the best use of their time?

The privilege of eating lunch anywhere other than a monitored cafeteria or classroom setting--yes.

They don't all fit in the cafeteria. And teachers are not lunch monitors.

I've had duties to monitor lunch time and breakfasts throughout my career in both private and public school education. I've also stood in the middle of the road in the rain with an umbrella helping students cross a 2 lane highway. When you work in rural and inner city settings, you do what's needed.

Your experience is not relevant to MCPS, where teachers have a contract. Though I'm sorry your employers did not have the will and/or resources to treat you like a professional.

Actually, we wanted to help our students stay out of trouble and succeed. I have worked for some incredibly amazing principals who performed those duties along with us (and took on the task of monitoring bathrooms). I can promise you our students were not kicking other kids in the head. Very few were smoking on campus, keeping weapons in their bookbags, using drugs, or having sex in the bathrooms. They were well run schools with dedicated professionals as leaders.

It doesn’t sound like pp is the problem. Perhaps the problem is union contracts that too tightly define what teachers may and may not do.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

A culture of entitlement and disrespect for authority starts at home. This has nothing to do with the pandemic and kids have been back in school for over two years now. Stop blaming the pandemic for bad parenting. Kids don't get this way overnight. This was many years in the doing, prior to covid and they know they can do it as there is no supervision or consequences at home. MCPS should require a parent or legal guardian to attend these games or close them to the public if students cannot behave without that level of supervision. But, even so, this happened off MCPS property so those "kids" were under the supervision of their parents so ultimately the parents failed somewhere and this didn't just happen 3 years ago. Plenty of kids DON'T behave this way and also went through the pandemic.

Your post is so opinionated and judgmental. Any experienced parent, or wise adult in general, knows that of course parenting matters but it's not everything. Kids are born with certain genetics that you can't always control. Or there are circumstances that you can't control. Experiences that they go through that you can't control. Plenty of well parented kids grow up to have many issues. And plenty of poorly parented kids grow up to be perfectly well adjusted and successful.

We all wish we could point the finger at someone for everything, but the reality is that you can't.

You really want to argue all of those kids are special needs and cannot be controlled. Then they should be in a residential program, like RICA or another program if the parents cannot handle them. Bottomline is where were the parents. They weren't supervising their kids after the football game and the kids violently attacked another. When your kids dress in all black and put masks over their faces, as a parent, that's not a red flag to you?

These are high school kids. Let's say, ages 14-18. Do you think it's inappropriate for kids aged 14-18 to be out in downtown Bethesda on a Friday evening without a parent?

I would not let my 14 year old free roam. 16-18 if they were well behaved sure. But, I expect to know exactly where they are and what they are doing. A 14 year old should not be freely roaming. This is why these things are happening. And, as a parent, if my kid was dressed in all black carrying a face mask common sense is something is seriously off and going to happen.

What exactly constitutes "freely roaming"? Would you expect your kid to text you, "outside the metro station committing assault"? Do you think the kids left home with their ski masks on?

I expect them to text me if there is a change of plans. I would never ever let my kid hang out at a place like that as I know what happens there. This isn't anything new. It was happening 25-40 years ago and still is. People acting shocked shouldn't be. This has always been a rough school hidden by the wealth of Chevy Chase and Bethesda.

You don't monitor what clothing your kids go out in or where they are? This is why this stuff is happening. Until they are 18 and graduated high school they are your responsibility.

Jesus, how old are you? Forty years ago? Ok, 40 years ago I was in college. But Bethesda was a cement manufacturing, blue collar town back then. This started to radically change probably 25 or 30 years ago. And with 1/2 of the school coming from Chevy Chase - well, that part was always upscale.

Chevy Chase was not always upscale, it was a nicer area but not particularly wealthy like it is now. Same with Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:The kid who was attacked was a WJ student, and I am certain.

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/09/02/violent-mob-attacks-two-students-after-maryland-hs-football-game/

And posters here think high school kids should have the freedom to walk around unsupervised?

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Anonymous wrote:Boys in fatherless homes do less well in life. They have plenty to rage about, including their single mothers with little if any authority, and her various boyfriends.

Absentee/ part time fathers can never be equal to a strong, loving and disciplined father in the home.

Kids who grow up with parents who are judgmental, angry and like to criticize other families tend to do very poorly when they grow up. I feel so bad for kids who have parents like the one above, they are going to grow up so messed up. It's really sad that they don't have a loving mother who demonstrates respect for other people and understanding of different circumstances.

This is a parenting issue regardless of the home situation. There were at least a dozen, if not more kids involved and given that there would be multiple family situations, all of which the parents failed to supervise and discipline their kids. MCPS should require parents to attend the football games or at least require the parents to pick them up if the kids cannot act responsibly. These incidents are happening far to frequently and if they are off MCPS property, MCPS cannot be blamed and parents need to be held accountable for their kids behaviors.

For all you know, the kids involved were never even actually at the game.

That is very true, and if so, then it really has nothing to do with MCPS. Especially given the timing.

If they are MCPS students harming other MCPS students, even if it’s outside of school grounds, it has to do with MCPS.

Yes. Why can’t MCPS adopt the same rules that the private schools follow, which is basically if you do anything anytime anywhere while you are a student at our school, and it brings dishonor to the school, you risk expulsion.

Because private schools can choose their students and set conditions on being a student. Public schools can't deny providing education to a child for any reason.

That needs to change. If prisoners can earn college degrees in jail, criminal HS students can get their GEDs.

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Anonymous wrote:There's at least one other video circulating on Instagram of the events - it's longer than the one posted at the top of this thread and it show multiple people on the ground being kicked and stomped. The video shows a pretty big crowd - 20 people at least including a number of girls who are throwing punches and stomping someone. Some of the assailants can be clearly identified. The police and school authorities should have lots of evidence. It sounds like the schools did a lot to try to prevent this from happening; maybe they just need to ban student attendance at games altogether? It's outrageous.

Btw there was a BCC student last year who beat another student with a chair. It made the news and provoked a thread here at the time. One of my DCs graduated from BCC in May and I was shocked to hear the kid's name called for graduation - and he got huge cheers from the crowd. Despite the fact that he'd been violent repeatedly during his time at BCC. I have another kid still at BCC and I think it's a fantastic school in many ways. But there's something really wrong, obviously.

This is exactly the problem. Imagine being allowed to beat another student with a chair and graduate from that school.

There are no consequences for vile criminal behavior and that is directly the result of the school board.
People need to wake up.
If you care about nothing else you should at least care that bad schools drive property values down.

I have had my son attacked at an MCPS middle school just walking down the hall. Someone thought he might be gay. He was assaulted. He told his friends. When called in to the counselor, the assailant got lunch detention for several days. My son got one day of lunch detention for telling his friends. He told me, “It wasn’t that bad. I felt safe in that room they put me in alone.” My son was also told to try and befriend the bully so he wouldn’t be so angry. So they told a 12 yr old to essentially beg the bully to forgive him for existing.

This is not uncommon at MCPS. I don’t know who is responsible for the soft response to violence in schools but it appears that schools are powerless to protect our kids. The bad kids know there are no consequences.

I also have a child at BCC. The principal seems well intentioned but powerless.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

A culture of entitlement and disrespect for authority starts at home. This has nothing to do with the pandemic and kids have been back in school for over two years now. Stop blaming the pandemic for bad parenting. Kids don't get this way overnight. This was many years in the doing, prior to covid and they know they can do it as there is no supervision or consequences at home. MCPS should require a parent or legal guardian to attend these games or close them to the public if students cannot behave without that level of supervision. But, even so, this happened off MCPS property so those "kids" were under the supervision of their parents so ultimately the parents failed somewhere and this didn't just happen 3 years ago. Plenty of kids DON'T behave this way and also went through the pandemic.

Your post is so opinionated and judgmental. Any experienced parent, or wise adult in general, knows that of course parenting matters but it's not everything. Kids are born with certain genetics that you can't always control. Or there are circumstances that you can't control. Experiences that they go through that you can't control. Plenty of well parented kids grow up to have many issues. And plenty of poorly parented kids grow up to be perfectly well adjusted and successful.

We all wish we could point the finger at someone for everything, but the reality is that you can't.

You really want to argue all of those kids are special needs and cannot be controlled. Then they should be in a residential program, like RICA or another program if the parents cannot handle them. Bottomline is where were the parents. They weren't supervising their kids after the football game and the kids violently attacked another. When your kids dress in all black and put masks over their faces, as a parent, that's not a red flag to you?

These are high school kids. Let's say, ages 14-18. Do you think it's inappropriate for kids aged 14-18 to be out in downtown Bethesda on a Friday evening without a parent?

I would not let my 14 year old free roam. 16-18 if they were well behaved sure. But, I expect to know exactly where they are and what they are doing. A 14 year old should not be freely roaming. This is why these things are happening. And, as a parent, if my kid was dressed in all black carrying a face mask common sense is something is seriously off and going to happen.

What exactly constitutes "freely roaming"? Would you expect your kid to text you, "outside the metro station committing assault"? Do you think the kids left home with their ski masks on?

I expect them to text me if there is a change of plans. I would never ever let my kid hang out at a place like that as I know what happens there. This isn't anything new. It was happening 25-40 years ago and still is. People acting shocked shouldn't be. This has always been a rough school hidden by the wealth of Chevy Chase and Bethesda.

You don't monitor what clothing your kids go out in or where they are? This is why this stuff is happening. Until they are 18 and graduated high school they are your responsibility.

Meaning, downtown Bethesda?

Considering BCC (and WJ) students have open lunch. This is extra ridiculous.

Open lunch for all high school students is indeed ridiculous. You should have to earn the privilege.

The privilege of eating lunch? And how do you think school staff should enforce this, and do you think this is the best use of their time?

The privilege of eating lunch anywhere other than a monitored cafeteria or classroom setting--yes.

They don't all fit in the cafeteria. And teachers are not lunch monitors.

I've had duties to monitor lunch time and breakfasts throughout my career in both private and public school education. I've also stood in the middle of the road in the rain with an umbrella helping students cross a 2 lane highway. When you work in rural and inner city settings, you do what's needed.

Your experience is not relevant to MCPS, where teachers have a contract. Though I'm sorry your employers did not have the will and/or resources to treat you like a professional.

Actually, we wanted to help our students stay out of trouble and succeed. I have worked for some incredibly amazing principals who performed those duties along with us (and took on the task of monitoring bathrooms). I can promise you our students were not kicking other kids in the head. Very few were smoking on campus, keeping weapons in their bookbags, using drugs, or having sex in the bathrooms. They were well run schools with dedicated professionals as leaders.

It doesn’t sound like pp is the problem. Perhaps the problem is union contracts that too tightly define what teachers may and may not do.

PP who had those duties. I think you're correct. I'll add that it was a privilege to work under the leadership of those principals--both male and female; and, for the most part, those students knew we truly cared about them and wanted them to succeed despite the odds.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not convinced that parents are primarily to blame. Several have pointed the finger at lackadaisical parenting skills as a reason for the melee last night. These students are up against a culture that promotes entitlement and disrespect for authority that has been fueled by the pandemic-related events of 2020-2022.

A culture of entitlement and disrespect for authority starts at home. This has nothing to do with the pandemic and kids have been back in school for over two years now. Stop blaming the pandemic for bad parenting. Kids don't get this way overnight. This was many years in the doing, prior to covid and they know they can do it as there is no supervision or consequences at home. MCPS should require a parent or legal guardian to attend these games or close them to the public if students cannot behave without that level of supervision. But, even so, this happened off MCPS property so those "kids" were under the supervision of their parents so ultimately the parents failed somewhere and this didn't just happen 3 years ago. Plenty of kids DON'T behave this way and also went through the pandemic.

Your post is so opinionated and judgmental. Any experienced parent, or wise adult in general, knows that of course parenting matters but it's not everything. Kids are born with certain genetics that you can't always control. Or there are circumstances that you can't control. Experiences that they go through that you can't control. Plenty of well parented kids grow up to have many issues. And plenty of poorly parented kids grow up to be perfectly well adjusted and successful.

We all wish we could point the finger at someone for everything, but the reality is that you can't.

You really want to argue all of those kids are special needs and cannot be controlled. Then they should be in a residential program, like RICA or another program if the parents cannot handle them. Bottomline is where were the parents. They weren't supervising their kids after the football game and the kids violently attacked another. When your kids dress in all black and put masks over their faces, as a parent, that's not a red flag to you?

These are high school kids. Let's say, ages 14-18. Do you think it's inappropriate for kids aged 14-18 to be out in downtown Bethesda on a Friday evening without a parent?

I would not let my 14 year old free roam. 16-18 if they were well behaved sure. But, I expect to know exactly where they are and what they are doing. A 14 year old should not be freely roaming. This is why these things are happening. And, as a parent, if my kid was dressed in all black carrying a face mask common sense is something is seriously off and going to happen.

What exactly constitutes "freely roaming"? Would you expect your kid to text you, "outside the metro station committing assault"? Do you think the kids left home with their ski masks on?

I expect them to text me if there is a change of plans. I would never ever let my kid hang out at a place like that as I know what happens there. This isn't anything new. It was happening 25-40 years ago and still is. People acting shocked shouldn't be. This has always been a rough school hidden by the wealth of Chevy Chase and Bethesda.

You don't monitor what clothing your kids go out in or where they are? This is why this stuff is happening. Until they are 18 and graduated high school they are your responsibility.

Jesus, how old are you? Forty years ago? Ok, 40 years ago I was in college. But Bethesda was a cement manufacturing, blue collar town back then. This started to radically change probably 25 or 30 years ago. And with 1/2 of the school coming from Chevy Chase - well, that part was always upscale.

Chevy Chase was not always upscale, it was a nicer area but not particularly wealthy like it is now. Same with Bethesda.

Ummm…I think you must be quite privileged. The houses in CC (I’m speaking of Newlands, etc) were summer homes for the wealthy in the 19th century.

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Anonymous wrote:Boys in fatherless homes do less well in life. They have plenty to rage about, including their single mothers with little if any authority, and her various boyfriends.

Absentee/ part time fathers can never be equal to a strong, loving and disciplined father in the home.

Kids who grow up with parents who are judgmental, angry and like to criticize other families tend to do very poorly when they grow up. I feel so bad for kids who have parents like the one above, they are going to grow up so messed up. It's really sad that they don't have a loving mother who demonstrates respect for other people and understanding of different circumstances.

This is a parenting issue regardless of the home situation. There were at least a dozen, if not more kids involved and given that there would be multiple family situations, all of which the parents failed to supervise and discipline their kids. MCPS should require parents to attend the football games or at least require the parents to pick them up if the kids cannot act responsibly. These incidents are happening far to frequently and if they are off MCPS property, MCPS cannot be blamed and parents need to be held accountable for their kids behaviors.

For all you know, the kids involved were never even actually at the game.

That is very true, and if so, then it really has nothing to do with MCPS. Especially given the timing.

If they are MCPS students harming other MCPS students, even if it’s outside of school grounds, it has to do with MCPS.

Yes. Why can’t MCPS adopt the same rules that the private schools follow, which is basically if you do anything anytime anywhere while you are a student at our school, and it brings dishonor to the school, you risk expulsion.

Because private schools can choose their students and set conditions on being a student. Public schools can't deny providing education to a child for any reason.

That needs to change. If prisoners can earn college degrees in jail, criminal HS students can get their GEDs.

Juveniles for the most part can't be incarcerted in MD, thanks to youth criminal justice reform passed 2 years ago.

There used to be a separate school (Twain) for these troubled students, but MCPS shut it down in 2008:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/montgomery-to-close-full-day-program-for-emotionally-troubled-middle-high-schoolers

When I went to MCPS many ages ago, our taunt to each other was if you did something really bad, you'd end up in Twain.

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I have had my son attacked at an MCPS middle school just walking down the hall. Someone thought he might be gay. He was assaulted. He told his friends. When called in to the counselor, the assailant got lunch detention for several days. My son got one day of lunch detention for telling his friends. He told me, “It wasn’t that bad. I felt safe in that room they put me in alone.” My son was also told to try and befriend the bully so he wouldn’t be so angry. So they told a 12 yr old to essentially beg the bully to forgive him for existing.

Think of the absurdity of this. If your son was a young adult and walking down the street and someone attacked him for his sexual orientation, the assailant would be prosecuted for a hate crime. No judge in their right mind would expect the victim to make friends with their attacker.

But if the same thing happens in MCPS....

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Anonymous wrote:There's at least one other video circulating on Instagram of the events - it's longer than the one posted at the top of this thread and it show multiple people on the ground being kicked and stomped. The video shows a pretty big crowd - 20 people at least including a number of girls who are throwing punches and stomping someone. Some of the assailants can be clearly identified. The police and school authorities should have lots of evidence. It sounds like the schools did a lot to try to prevent this from happening; maybe they just need to ban student attendance at games altogether? It's outrageous.

Btw there was a BCC student last year who beat another student with a chair. It made the news and provoked a thread here at the time. One of my DCs graduated from BCC in May and I was shocked to hear the kid's name called for graduation - and he got huge cheers from the crowd. Despite the fact that he'd been violent repeatedly during his time at BCC. I have another kid still at BCC and I think it's a fantastic school in many ways. But there's something really wrong, obviously.

This is exactly the problem. Imagine being allowed to beat another student with a chair and graduate from that school.

There are no consequences for vile criminal behavior and that is directly the result of the school board.
People need to wake up.
If you care about nothing else you should at least care that bad schools drive property values down.

I have had my son attacked at an MCPS middle school just walking down the hall. Someone thought he might be gay. He was assaulted. He told his friends. When called in to the counselor, the assailant got lunch detention for several days. My son got one day of lunch detention for telling his friends. He told me, “It wasn’t that bad. I felt safe in that room they put me in alone.” My son was also told to try and befriend the bully so he wouldn’t be so angry. So they told a 12 yr old to essentially beg the bully to forgive him for existing.

This is not uncommon at MCPS. I don’t know who is responsible for the soft response to violence in schools but it appears that schools are powerless to protect our kids. The bad kids know there are no consequences.

I also have a child at BCC. The principal seems well intentioned but powerless.

That’s absurd that your kid got detention for telling a friend and say to be friends.

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I saw the mob of students outside the chipotle across from the Bethesda metro last night. There were 9 police cars that came on site to manage the situation, though I’m not sure if they were all that helpful. Very sad to see, but hormonal teenagers in mobs is an easy ticket to things spiraling out of control.