N word at Whitman

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Anonymous wrote:It's stuff like this thread that makes it clear we've failed these kids by not integrating the W's decades ago.

Sure, seems like integration would benefit the community and is long overdue.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - listen closely. It will never, ever, happen. Whitman and Churchill parents will NEVER allow MCPS to bus kids into their school or build "Blacks/Hispanics Only" housing in their neighborhoods. They are way too politically connected. You can complain about how we need to put more minorities into these schools but the only way to do that is to build wealth in those two minority groups. Luckily, the Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or approaching historic lows.

So you're boasting that W parents use powerful political clout to gerrymander their boundary in order to exclude low-income students?

We can sue the BOE to keep our boundaries intact if that's what it takes to keep out the unwashed masses.

Can't wait for the boundary study to be done and diversify these schools.

It..... Won't..... Happen. You guys still don't get it.

All the dominoes are lined up. The BOE voted to prioritize diversity. It's on!

DCC-You take some of our black and Latino kids> W-we don’t want them you keep them> DCC- that isn’t fair to us you need diversity to know our pain> W- what pain? I thought everybody was jealous of Blair?> DCC -you’re racist and to prove the the board isn’t, we need more enrichment spots at PBES> W- our kids need enrichment too > DCC- no they don’t they have plenty of white kids errr peer cohort already in their classes> W- well at least I don’t live over there > DCC while we are at it throw up some low income apts in Bradley Hills

I swear that is how I read each and every one of these threads

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Anonymous wrote:N has not been appropriate for decades! It has had a resurgence because (I don't even know what is appropriate to insert here) black kids call each other and their non black friends "N" as a term of endearment. It's used in rap, hip hop etc.

My grandparents, parents, DH, myself and my kid never, ever used this word.

It would be wonderful to know what people prefer to be called. Black seems universal. White is not an issue for whites. Some use brown when referring to themselves. Yet POC isn't universal though many blacks refer to themselves as POC. AA isnt universal if POCs are not African descendants . Yet no one wants to use the skin color wheel.

With all due respect and in no prioritized order:
Black
Brown
Asian
White
Mixed
And rainbow just for fun for all the unicorns out there? Please have a sense of humor

Please state your preference if these are not appropriate.

Please state why you’re deliberately ignoring the blackface?
The use of the N-word wasn’t the only thing racially insensitive.

What? I thought it was a mud mask and someone took a screen shot and added n word to it and posted it again to snapchat. Did the girls admit to adding derogatory word? If so, then punishment should fit the crime. Not excusing them at all. Stop being so myopic! This thread went down a different path.

No the girls wrote the caption according to the paper.

It is amazing that these kids could be so incredibly insensitive and hurtful. At a minimum, they need to attend sensitivity training plus community service.

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Anonymous wrote:It's stuff like this thread that makes it clear we've failed these kids by not integrating the W's decades ago.

Sure, seems like integration would benefit the community and is long overdue.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - listen closely. It will never, ever, happen. Whitman and Churchill parents will NEVER allow MCPS to bus kids into their school or build "Blacks/Hispanics Only" housing in their neighborhoods. They are way too politically connected. You can complain about how we need to put more minorities into these schools but the only way to do that is to build wealth in those two minority groups. Luckily, the Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or approaching historic lows.

So you're boasting that W parents use powerful political clout to gerrymander their boundary in order to exclude low-income students?

We can sue the BOE to keep our boundaries intact if that's what it takes to keep out the unwashed masses.

Can't wait for the boundary study to be done and diversify these schools.

It..... Won't..... Happen. You guys still don't get it.

All the dominoes are lined up. The BOE voted to prioritize diversity. It's on!

DCC-You take some of our black and Latino kids> W-we don’t want them you keep them> DCC- that isn’t fair to us you need diversity to know our pain> W- what pain? I thought everybody was jealous of Blair?> DCC -you’re racist and to prove the the board isn’t, we need more enrichment spots at PBES> W- our kids need enrichment too > DCC- no they don’t they have plenty of white kids errr peer cohort already in their classes> W- well at least I don’t live over there > DCC while we are at it throw up some low income apts in Bradley Hills

I swear that is how I read each and every one of these threads

Best synopsis yet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Funny how this happens at the least diverse school in the county.

Not really

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Anonymous wrote:Funny how this happens at the least diverse school in the county.

Not really

If the BoE has any sense, they'll deal with this directly by diversifying these schools.

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It happens at the diverse schools too. Do not kid yourself. At the diverse school the kid saying it is likely to get punched. It just never makes the media.

Back when we were all kids racial slurs were up there with public nose picking. You didn't do it whether you were racist or not. It was seen as super low class and trashy. Now its everywhere in the mainstream and entertainment venues.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated. Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly. Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word willy nilly and no one did anything about it. It was depressing.

I agree PP. Pyle must have the worst school culture in Maryland. I wish the community super would step in and do something about the place. The whole "it's nice to be nice" messages the principal sends all the time drive me crazy. There's so much corniness and cluelessness, and in the end let's be real--the a--holes run the show at Pyle. No teeth behind anything, just trite sayings.

Our kids are still a couple of years away from Pyle but from what I've been told by neighbors there's a lot of bullying there.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the kind of thing that gives me pause about sending my kids to a school like Whitman. Yes, the academics are good by public school standards, but then you have a huge lack of diversity to contend with. If the school's make-up was more like BCC the N word wouldn't be getting thrown around like that because there would be a fear of peer-to-peer repercussions. Which is much more impactful than adults slapping them on the wrist.

Have you been at places around BCC at lunchtime? There is plenty of the N word from all races. And I’m sure a other more diverse schools in the area too.

Unfortunately true

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Anonymous wrote:It's stuff like this thread that makes it clear we've failed these kids by not integrating the W's decades ago.

Sure, seems like integration would benefit the community and is long overdue.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - listen closely. It will never, ever, happen. Whitman and Churchill parents will NEVER allow MCPS to bus kids into their school or build "Blacks/Hispanics Only" housing in their neighborhoods. They are way too politically connected. You can complain about how we need to put more minorities into these schools but the only way to do that is to build wealth in those two minority groups. Luckily, the Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or approaching historic lows.

So you're boasting that W parents use powerful political clout to gerrymander their boundary in order to exclude low-income students?

We can sue the BOE to keep our boundaries intact if that's what it takes to keep out the unwashed masses.

Can't wait for the boundary study to be done and diversify these schools.

It..... Won't..... Happen. You guys still don't get it.

All the dominoes are lined up. The BOE voted to prioritize diversity. It's on!

DCC-You take some of our black and Latino kids> W-we don’t want them you keep them> DCC- that isn’t fair to us you need diversity to know our pain> W- what pain? I thought everybody was jealous of Blair?> DCC -you’re racist and to prove the the board isn’t, we need more enrichment spots at PBES> W- our kids need enrichment too > DCC- no they don’t they have plenty of white kids errr peer cohort already in their classes> W- well at least I don’t live over there > DCC while we are at it throw up some low income apts in Bradley Hills

I swear that is how I read each and every one of these threads

Best synopsis yet

+1 Sends some white kids to an all black school for a taste of their own medicine!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated. Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly. Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word willy nilly and no one did anything about it. It was depressing.

I agree PP. Pyle must have the worst school culture in Maryland. I wish the community super would step in and do something about the place. The whole "it's nice to be nice" messages the principal sends all the time drive me crazy. There's so much corniness and cluelessness, and in the end let's be real--the a--holes run the show at Pyle. No teeth behind anything, just trite sayings.

Our kids are still a couple of years away from Pyle but from what I've been told by neighbors there's a lot of bullying there.

The school needs a leadership overhaul. But then, so does the county.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated. Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly. Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word willy nilly and no one did anything about it. It was depressing.

I agree PP. Pyle must have the worst school culture in Maryland. I wish the community super would step in and do something about the place. The whole "it's nice to be nice" messages the principal sends all the time drive me crazy. There's so much corniness and cluelessness, and in the end let's be real--the a--holes run the show at Pyle. No teeth behind anything, just trite sayings.

Our kids are still a couple of years away from Pyle but from what I've been told by neighbors there's a lot of bullying there.

The school needs a leadership overhaul. But then, so does the county.

That was referring to pyle leadership not Whitman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated. Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly. Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word willy nilly and no one did anything about it. It was depressing.

I agree PP. Pyle must have the worst school culture in Maryland. I wish the community super would step in and do something about the place. The whole "it's nice to be nice" messages the principal sends all the time drive me crazy. There's so much corniness and cluelessness, and in the end let's be real--the a--holes run the show at Pyle. No teeth behind anything, just trite sayings.

Our kids are still a couple of years away from Pyle but from what I've been told by neighbors there's a lot of bullying there.

The school needs a leadership overhaul. But then, so does the county.

School district and many individual schools are all way too big.

Out of control and incompetent central office and k-8 curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a different perspective. I think the principal was showing that he was taking the matter seriously and that such behavior would not be tolerated. Using offensive and demeaning language like this was a problem when my kid was at Pyle last year and I thought the principal there (Nardi) handled it terribly. Kids were running around heiling Hitler and calling people dirty Jews and using the N word and the F word willy nilly and no one did anything about it. It was depressing.

I agree PP. Pyle must have the worst school culture in Maryland. I wish the community super would step in and do something about the place. The whole "it's nice to be nice" messages the principal sends all the time drive me crazy. There's so much corniness and cluelessness, and in the end let's be real--the a--holes run the show at Pyle. No teeth behind anything, just trite sayings.

Our kids are still a couple of years away from Pyle but from what I've been told by neighbors there's a lot of bullying there.

The school needs a leadership overhaul. But then, so does the county.

School district and many individual schools are all way too big.

Out of control and incompetent central office and k-8 curriculum.

Creating smaller consortiums within the county to improve diversity at many of the segregated schools with all these racial problems seems like a great idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's stuff like this thread that makes it clear we've failed these kids by not integrating the W's decades ago.

Sure, seems like integration would benefit the community and is long overdue.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - listen closely. It will never, ever, happen. Whitman and Churchill parents will NEVER allow MCPS to bus kids into their school or build "Blacks/Hispanics Only" housing in their neighborhoods. They are way too politically connected. You can complain about how we need to put more minorities into these schools but the only way to do that is to build wealth in those two minority groups. Luckily, the Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or approaching historic lows.

So you're boasting that W parents use powerful political clout to gerrymander their boundary in order to exclude low-income students?

We can sue the BOE to keep our boundaries intact if that's what it takes to keep out the unwashed masses.

Can't wait for the boundary study to be done and diversify these schools.

It..... Won't..... Happen. You guys still don't get it.

All the dominoes are lined up. The BOE voted to prioritize diversity. It's on!

DCC-You take some of our black and Latino kids> W-we don’t want them you keep them> DCC- that isn’t fair to us you need diversity to know our pain> W- what pain? I thought everybody was jealous of Blair?> DCC -you’re racist and to prove the the board isn’t, we need more enrichment spots at PBES> W- our kids need enrichment too > DCC- no they don’t they have plenty of white kids errr peer cohort already in their classes> W- well at least I don’t live over there > DCC while we are at it throw up some low income apts in Bradley Hills

I swear that is how I read each and every one of these threads

If that’s how you read them, you are a part of the problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's stuff like this thread that makes it clear we've failed these kids by not integrating the W's decades ago.

Sure, seems like integration would benefit the community and is long overdue.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha - listen closely. It will never, ever, happen. Whitman and Churchill parents will NEVER allow MCPS to bus kids into their school or build "Blacks/Hispanics Only" housing in their neighborhoods. They are way too politically connected. You can complain about how we need to put more minorities into these schools but the only way to do that is to build wealth in those two minority groups. Luckily, the Black and Hispanic unemployment rates are at or approaching historic lows.

So you're boasting that W parents use powerful political clout to gerrymander their boundary in order to exclude low-income students?

We can sue the BOE to keep our boundaries intact if that's what it takes to keep out the unwashed masses.

Can't wait for the boundary study to be done and diversify these schools.

It..... Won't..... Happen. You guys still don't get it.

All the dominoes are lined up. The BOE voted to prioritize diversity. It's on!

DCC-You take some of our black and Latino kids> W-we don’t want them you keep them> DCC- that isn’t fair to us you need diversity to know our pain> W- what pain? I thought everybody was jealous of Blair?> DCC -you’re racist and to prove the the board isn’t, we need more enrichment spots at PBES> W- our kids need enrichment too > DCC- no they don’t they have plenty of white kids errr peer cohort already in their classes> W- well at least I don’t live over there > DCC while we are at it throw up some low income apts in Bradley Hills

I swear that is how I read each and every one of these threads

If that’s how you read them, you are a part of the problem.

The thread is about racist incidents at a W. Projecting this on others is just trying to justify bad behavior by deflecting and excuse making.