Fight at Whitman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awful. I cannot believe that kids are not safe to use tbe freaking bathroom. These kids should be arrested for assault and put in jail asap! No kid should have to endure this. The kid could have easily gotten brain damage..

Hard to believe he didnt sustain some kind of permanent brain damage. Natasha Richardson fell and hit her head once and died from it. Often these traumatic brain injuries take time to show up, sometimes not even until later in life

[Anonymous]

It is a countywide issue- the question is whether the new superintendent will actually do anything about it. Those kids should not be allowed on property again. This is where virtual instruction should be used. Let them access the curriculum without being able to hurt the rest of the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whitman is probably the wealthiest school in an already wealthy county. For that reason, they have been vilified and guilted into taking various low income, disruptive students. Because why should well-off kids from nice backgrounds be able to live peacefully huh? They should be forced to live in terror too.

Now you see the end result of supposedly "compassionate" programs. It's really just score settling and old vendettas come to life. Resentment for the achieving and functional class and punishment for their children.

If Whitman parents dont do something about this they should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

Whitman zoned parent here. We voted with our feet and moved out kids to private a few years ago. We actually drive past Whitman on the way to school every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow a bunch of black kids gang up and near a single white defenseless kid who clearly doesn't know how to fight. Don't worry it's not racially motivated

My thoughts exactly! Apparently racism and sexism only go one way. Whites cannot experience racism, right? And women cannot be the perpetrators of sexism, right? ....and people wonder how Trump won

[Anonymous]

Blm

[Anonymous]

Maybe if black kids got the message that their lives matter then in maybe they will stop the violence. I think we should make appropriate consequences for the violence and work hard to show them how much their lives matter. They matter this many detentions and this many suspensions worth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if black kids got the message that their lives matter then in maybe they will stop the violence.

There is a big "Black Lives Matter" banner in front of the church just down the road (corner of Whittier and River Road)

[Anonymous]

So black lives matter means that other lives don’t matter? What the heck does blm got to do with this fight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a countywide issue- the question is whether the new superintendent will actually do anything about it. Those kids should not be allowed on property again. This is where virtual instruction should be used. Let them access the curriculum without being able to hurt the rest of the kids.

These kids need to be in special schools. They shut them down. They got rid of virtual so that’s not an option and given their behavior virtual probably wouldn’t work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if black kids got the message that their lives matter then in maybe they will stop the violence. I think we should make appropriate consequences for the violence and work hard to show them how much their lives matter. They matter this many detentions and this many suspensions worth.

That’s on their parents. Parents should be held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a countywide issue- the question is whether the new superintendent will actually do anything about it. Those kids should not be allowed on property again. This is where virtual instruction should be used. Let them access the curriculum without being able to hurt the rest of the kids.

No, if he were willing he would have by now. It’s going to take a dead child or staff or two for change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe if black kids got the message that their lives matter then in maybe they will stop the violence. I think we should make appropriate consequences for the violence and work hard to show them how much their lives matter. They matter this many detentions and this many suspensions worth.

Do white kids matter? Thus was a white kid that got brutally attacked and it was deliberate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The statement from Principal Miller is an utter joke. The kids need to be expelled. It was actually savagery to see the way they beat and stomped that kid and even barred other kids from entering the bathroom to try to help

Miller was a terrible assistant principal during his time at Churchill. He's a big supporter of restorative justice. That's what will happen to those that caused the fight. No consequences, no penalties. More fights to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The statement from Principal Miller is an utter joke. The kids need to be expelled. It was actually savagery to see the way they beat and stomped that kid and even barred other kids from entering the bathroom to try to help

+1. Why didn’t the kids barred from entering the bathroom get help? Alert someone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t believe the students are from the homeless shelter. They seem to be in a different program for troubled juveniles that is relatively new. DC says they never go to class and fight among themselves frequently. Nobody seems to be doing anything to address the problem.

That might be true. My middle schooler tells me about similar kids (who have been to juvie) at Pyle. They don’t go to class and cause trouble all day.