What happened at Jackson Reed last Friday?

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Anonymous wrote:And we are already at more comments in this incident than the thread about another DCPS student that was killed ON CAMPUS. Way to stay true and selfish, DCUM.

Weird comment. Unless you are accusing Jeff of removing posts about Roosevelt (I assume you are not) or accusing Jeff of limiting posting to certain people (an anonymous forum with no registration, so I assume you are not), what exactly is the complaint here? It is shocking to learn that the readership and participation rates on DCUM skew towards W2/3/6 and those (plus certain charter) schools? Is it shocking to you that people care more about things in their backyards and schools than in other neighborhoods and schools? So, yes, the people with kids at JR who are very active on DCUM are more focused on JR than on Roosevelt and other schools.

There are no barriers to entry on DCUM. Anyone can read, anyone can post. Instead of blaming the people with kids at JR for being active and concerned for their kids' safety, maybe look in the mirror and focus your gaze on the Roosevelt parents who seem unconcerned and uninvolved? Assuming you want to stick to your odd complaint that somehow engagement on DCUM is an indicator of concern for individual communities.

Of course I’m not accusing Jeff of deleting posts. The point is none of your kids were likely impacted at JR but it’s very clear that you don’t give a crap about a DC kid that was killed at school. You all likely have an All Lives Matter sign in your yard but can’t care enough to give condolences to a kid that lost his live a few miles down the road. You all ward 3 people don’t live in NYC either but can get a thread to 200 pages about a woman and boy in a Citi Bike disagreement. The primary point of what I’m saying is that the study that was done on DCUM a few years back about underlying racism is very much still true today.

That study was such a joke.

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And we are already at more comments in this incident than the thread about another DCPS student that was killed ON CAMPUS. Way to stay true and selfish, DCUM.

Weird comment. Unless you are accusing Jeff of removing posts about Roosevelt (I assume you are not) or accusing Jeff of limiting posting to certain people (an anonymous forum with no registration, so I assume you are not), what exactly is the complaint here? It is shocking to learn that the readership and participation rates on DCUM skew towards W2/3/6 and those (plus certain charter) schools? Is it shocking to you that people care more about things in their backyards and schools than in other neighborhoods and schools? So, yes, the people with kids at JR who are very active on DCUM are more focused on JR than on Roosevelt and other schools.

There are no barriers to entry on DCUM. Anyone can read, anyone can post. Instead of blaming the people with kids at JR for being active and concerned for their kids' safety, maybe look in the mirror and focus your gaze on the Roosevelt parents who seem unconcerned and uninvolved? Assuming you want to stick to your odd complaint that somehow engagement on DCUM is an indicator of concern for individual communities.

You are completely misunderstanding the nature of DCUM threads. The most active threads are not ones in which everyone agrees and, I am fairly certain that everyone here agrees that the shooting at Roosevelt was a horrific and tragic event. The longest threads are those that involve controversy. Had this thread stuck to the original topic, it would have been much shorter. But, instead, posters have engaged in off-topic posts. The entire discussion about guns has nothing to do with the fight at Tenleytown and, that discussion was not started by fans of Jackson Reed, but rather a detractor. Similarly, there are posts about politicians that have nothing to do with the fight. The conversation that we are now having is off-topic. This thread is growing because of off-topic controversies.

BTW, in the last redistricting my home was zoned for Roosevelt. I approached the principal (since gone) and the alumni group leaders and begged them to post on DCUM so that the school would be better represented here. None of them were interested. I believe that I am the original poster of the longest thread about Roosevelt that exists on this site. There are a lot of things that can be blamed for lack of discussion about Roosevelt than racism.

True. I read the thread referenced and it gutted me. When a child dies in a violent tragedy, there is little to post but +1 to the all the other condolence posts. It also contained a warning by a poster not to get into the kind of argumentative discussion you see in this thread, because a child died. I think that is why this thread is also talking about gun violence even though there was no gun involved -- the threads became related, as no one wants to argue policy in a thread about a child who was murdered.