DCPS will no longer let students bring open beverages into building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does DCPS propose that Wilson do with the 2,000 disposable bottles that will now be trashed at school every day? (Few will be recycled.)

FYI: no, 2,000 students can't all fill up reusable water bottles every morning upon arriving at Wilson. The flow at the handful of water fountains doesn't rise high enough to fill a bottle (I tried at back-to-school night), and the bathroom sinks are all marked "do not drink" because the water is unfiltered and a possible lead hazard. Plus, the hallways are so crowded that students can't stop to open their lockers between classes, let alone stand in line at a water fountain.

WHAT ENORMOUS PROBLEM IS THIS DRASTIC PLAN ATTEMPTING TO SOLVE? The problem--present at every high school in America--of a small handful of miscreants smuggling vodka in to school once a year?

Has our interim chancellor ever visited Wilson during the school day?

Don't blame Davis. Kaya's not gone yet. She still gets to have a couple of going-away fetes, and presumably some sort of contract bonus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NO WAY am I letting my kid use 180 disposable water bottles in one school year.

This is an environmental disaster:

2000 kids at Wilson, each bringing one sealed, disposable water bottle per day =

180 days in the school year = 360,000 disposable water bottles per year

= an astonishing 1,440,000 disposable water bottles over the course of 4 years of high school. That's just for ONE high school.

Also: why the presumption of guilt? Why is DCPS always in search of bureaucratic answers to problems that they haven't proven actually exist?

A waste of time, money, resources. Unbelievable overreaction to a few bad apples. It's like the shoebomber incident. One asshole tries to blow up a plane with a bomb in his shoe and the rest of us have to remove our shoes in airport security for the rest of our lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These high schools need to come up with a better, more effective way to deal with what I'm sure if a minor alcohol problem. Don't punish an entire student body to stop a few bad eggs. Here's an idea, identify the bad eggs who bring alcohol onto school property and go straight to expulsion.

AMEN! Although I heard that it was bleach some kid smuggled in and dumped on a kid at a high school that provoked this extreme measure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These high schools need to come up with a better, more effective way to deal with what I'm sure if a minor alcohol problem. Don't punish an entire student body to stop a few bad eggs. Here's an idea, identify the bad eggs who bring alcohol onto school property and go straight to expulsion.

AMEN! Although I heard that it was bleach some kid smuggled in and dumped on a kid at a high school that provoked this extreme measure.

So expel the kid! Why is this such a struggle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys, THIS ISN'T TRUE. There is zero percent chance it's true. I will eat my computer if DCPS is instituting a ban on water bottles.

You can bring an EMPTY water bottle and fill it up at the water fountain or sink -- and hope the germs, lead, and chlorine are at non-toxic levels that day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child was late to class at Wilson today as water bottles were being confiscated at the entrance if unsealed. So if this isn't DCPS policy, why are security guards doing this?

Same here. My Wilson child waited 15 minutes to get through the metal detector line, then was told to open her thermos to prove it really had food in it. Then she was told to go back outside and empty her water bottle, so she had to wait in line again. She was 15 minutes late to class. Another kid had their sandwich confiscated because it was in an "open container." Is this any way to run a school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These high schools need to come up with a better, more effective way to deal with what I'm sure if a minor alcohol problem. Don't punish an entire student body to stop a few bad eggs. Here's an idea, identify the bad eggs who bring alcohol onto school property and go straight to expulsion.

AMEN! Although I heard that it was bleach some kid smuggled in and dumped on a kid at a high school that provoked this extreme measure.

So expel the kid! Why is this such a struggle?

Press charges, counsel the kid, do something constructive, not punitive to the vast majority of law-abiding kids.

[Anonymous]

Just got a robocall from Wilson apprising us of this new ridiculous policy. Interestingly, they also said that they hope to "relax" this policy in the future. Let's hope common-sense prevails.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These high schools need to come up with a better, more effective way to deal with what I'm sure if a minor alcohol problem. Don't punish an entire student body to stop a few bad eggs. Here's an idea, identify the bad eggs who bring alcohol onto school property and go straight to expulsion.

AMEN! Although I heard that it was bleach some kid smuggled in and dumped on a kid at a high school that provoked this extreme measure.

So expel the kid! Why is this such a struggle?

Why are you being so micro-aggressive? The disadvantaged youth needs to be given his safe space.

[Anonymous]

Flexibility and reasonableness are not DCPS' strong suit. One size fits all. That's why they send the truancy cops out as zealously (if not more so) against the parents of the academically successful piano prodigy as they do in the case of the kid who never comes to school and hangs out on the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just got a robocall from Wilson apprising us of this new ridiculous policy. Interestingly, they also said that they hope to "relax" this policy in the future. Let's hope common-sense prevails.

So why the DCPS tweet that says this is not a new policy? Can Wilson just institute its own policy that is inconsistent with DCPS? If DCPS is saying that they don't want kids dehydrated, then they want kids to bring their own water bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the lot of you need to be more educated about these topics before you go on for three pages about something that's just completely untrue

op here, do you still think I'm making this up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys, THIS ISN'T TRUE. There is zero percent chance it's true. I will eat my computer if DCPS is instituting a ban on water bottles.

I am hoping to see your video, pp

[Anonymous]

just got a robocall that the policy was retracted!

[Anonymous]

All of this over a guy throwing bleach on a girl that was concealed in a water bottle. You can't make this stuff up!