Reported hazing incident involving Damascus High School JV Football team

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's more than just not being properly trained or being corrupt. The last principal I worked for was just incapable of taking any action about anything. He'd "weigh" something until we stopped asking about it. He didn't like confronting teachers who were texting off hours with students, he didn't like taking a stance about anything, and he just hoped everything would go away. I think he wasn't too bright, and afraid of battling anything out or making a mistake. I left because I felt uncomfortable working with some awful people who kept returning year after year. A stronger principal would have written them up enough times to put them on par, at least. Overall, the net effect is that kids pay a price.

What??? How did staff know the teacher was texting students in off hours? A parent or a student brought that piece of information forward to the principal and the teacher kept texting? Does that employee still work in MCPS?

I don't think he's still texting, but he's still teaching and coaching. It's possible someone spoke to him, because it was brought to admin's attention by a parent. Or possibly he stopped because the parent was directive with him herself.

MCPS makes me sick. Texting creates a black and white paper trail. Why would MCPS keep a teacher and a coach who was texting with a student?

How would MCPS know he actually had stopped? Wait for another parent to catch him?

If the principal changes, would the new principal even know he was caught before?

You should start a new thread for this. It really deserves it's own discussion.

There's talk of a teacher/coach texting a student on the Churchill principal thread. It would be insane if MCPS knows of 2 coaches/teachers doing this at 2 different high schools. The principal who was an idiot at Churchill was female though. PP may know of another school with same problem.

[Anonymous]

Point being for Damascus, the MCPS athletic program has crazy crap going on all around the county and coaches still keep their nobs. Unless you speak up loud now, your AD and principal will soon renew the contracts for next year. They can already be processing the paperwork.

[Anonymous]

4 of the JV players have been charged as adults named. Charges are first degree rape, attempted first degree rape, and conspiracy to commit first degree rape. The fifth remains charged as a juvenile.

[Anonymous]

Let's see what sentence a boy rape gets.

You are about to see how much more important boys are than girls.

the RM security guard rapist got <18 months.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's see what sentence a boy rape gets.

You are about to see how much more important boys are than girls.

the RM security guard rapist got <18 months.

Hit submit too soon

Or you will see how pathetic moco states attorney is.

[Anonymous]

Watch mcps ban football now

[Anonymous]

I am outraged. Yes, I feel empathy for the victims but a 15 year old is not an adult. They texted the victims that night asking if they were okay. They deserved to be punished but it is outrageous that teens who made terrible choices partly because they are teens and lack the ability to think as adults are being prosecuted as adults. They ARE NOT adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am outraged. Yes, I feel empathy for the victims but a 15 year old is not an adult. They texted the victims that night asking if they were okay. They deserved to be punished but it is outrageous that teens who made terrible choices partly because they are teens and lack the ability to think as adults are being prosecuted as adults. They ARE NOT adults.

YES! Agree!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do not hold with charging 15-year-olds as adults.

-parent of a 15-year-old

Not even when those 15 year olds gang rape their classmates in a locker room?

NP +1

It's not a bunch of kids sitting on a bridge and someone gets the dumb idea to drop a rock onto a road.

Gang rape is a very adult concept, premeditated, and it's a crime that they used all of their adult physical strength to commit. Zero sympathy here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not hold with charging 15-year-olds as adults.

-parent of a 15-year-old

Not even when those 15 year olds gang rape their classmates in a locker room?

No. 15-year-olds are not adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not hold with charging 15-year-olds as adults.

-parent of a 15-year-old

Not even when those 15 year olds gang rape their classmates in a locker room?

NP +1

It's not a bunch of kids sitting on a bridge and someone gets the dumb idea to drop a rock onto a road.

Gang rape is a very adult concept, premeditated, and it's a crime that they used all of their adult physical strength to commit. Zero sympathy here.

+1

Who cares if they texted the victim that night to ask if they were ok? WTF. They committed a premeditated CRIME in a group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 of the JV players have been charged as adults named. Charges are first degree rape, attempted first degree rape, and conspiracy to commit first degree rape. The fifth remains charged as a juvenile.

The State Attorney was pressured by the media attention to try the boys as adults. There wouldn't even be a trial if the media hadn't reported the details including the leaked police report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am outraged. Yes, I feel empathy for the victims but a 15 year old is not an adult. They texted the victims that night asking if they were okay. They deserved to be punished but it is outrageous that teens who made terrible choices partly because they are teens and lack the ability to think as adults are being prosecuted as adults. They ARE NOT adults.

Sorry, but juvenile punishment would not be adequate here given the very public shame that will be attached to the victims. You run the risk of emboldening the offenders by making them think there are few consequences even for violent crimes. This isn't a group of misunderstood teens stealing a car.

[Anonymous]

How were these kids zoned for Damascus? None of them lived there. 2 Clarksburg, 1-Germantown, and 1 Gaithersburg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am outraged. Yes, I feel empathy for the victims but a 15 year old is not an adult. They texted the victims that night asking if they were okay. They deserved to be punished but it is outrageous that teens who made terrible choices partly because they are teens and lack the ability to think as adults are being prosecuted as adults. They ARE NOT adults.

Sorry, but juvenile punishment would not be adequate here given the very public shame that will be attached to the victims. You run the risk of emboldening the offenders by making them think there are few consequences even for violent crimes. This isn't a group of misunderstood teens stealing a car.

They are not adults, not even close. They are children.