STA vs Wilson Game: Fighting and Drinking

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Anonymous wrote:By all accounts the Wilson students were totally out of control. Shocking behavior.

And none of the STA were out of control? Is that what you’re saying?

LOL right? That was my first reaction. Of course they were *total angels* because the subtext of this terrible thread is that white/rich kids from a private school can do no wrong and public school kids are out of control (btw my kid is at a Big 3). OP go get some sensitivity training.

Jeez. Of the STA boys I know, half or more are Black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is anyone surprised? How many videos are posted of adults behaving badly at professional sporting events? Fan behavior has been out of control for a long time. Teams really should start banning unruly fans and nip this thing in the bud once and for all.

+1 Just another sign of the decline of our country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sad for the basketball players on each side who worked so hard to play great. But has anyone else seen the fighting that takes place near the Tenleytown Metro many afternoons? It’s scary and I’m glad my kids don’t go there, and whether the Wilson kids initiated this or not at the tournament in my head their reputation precedes them unfortunately…

This. Anyone defending Wilson students is pathetic. They are a menace on the metro (assaults and theft) and in Tenleytown regularly. The false equivalence being made to anything STA boys have done is ridiculous. Any private school that invites Wilson teams/students to a game or participates at anything at Wilson is out of their minds.

G Prep hoops plays Wilson 12/23. Prep players and coaches are predominantly African American.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad for the basketball players on each side who worked so hard to play great. But has anyone else seen the fighting that takes place near the Tenleytown Metro many afternoons? It’s scary and I’m glad my kids don’t go there, and whether the Wilson kids initiated this or not at the tournament in my head their reputation precedes them unfortunately…

This. Anyone defending Wilson students is pathetic. They are a menace on the metro (assaults and theft) and in Tenleytown regularly. The false equivalence being made to anything STA boys have done is ridiculous. Any private school that invites Wilson teams/students to a game or participates at anything at Wilson is out of their minds.

G Prep hoops plays Wilson 12/23. Prep players and coaches are predominantly African American.

We are talking about the fans. None of the schools mentioned have anything close to a predominantly Black student body or fan base. Coaches and players had nothing to do with this.

[Anonymous]

Regardless, Wilson is only 28% black this year.
There are a lot of poorly behaved white students at Wilson, and many were at the Friday night game. It's not a race issue. It's a behavior issue.

[Anonymous]

Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

I would agree with you that race really isn't the issue here. That said, there was racially charged language hurled by Wilson students (mostly white) at the head of sta (who is white), which is just odd, classless, and inappropriate--among other things.

But buried in a lot of the comments about race is an erasure of Asians, mixed race kids, etc, that is both off topic and troubling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

I would agree with you that race really isn't the issue here. That said, there was racially charged language hurled by Wilson students (mostly white) at the head of sta (who is white), which is just odd, classless, and inappropriate--among other things.

But buried in a lot of the comments about race is an erasure of Asians, mixed race kids, etc, that is both off topic and troubling.

100 percent. The fact that people immediately focused on race is problematic. The behavior is the problem! The students should be ashamed of themselves. The parents should be horrified. And the school should be responding appropriately. And the blinkered view of race/ethnicity, as demonstrated by the erasure of Asian-Americans, mixed race kids, is problematic. This is the problem when people view others as either black or white, with their identities controlled by their race, rather than as human beings and individuals. The behavior of the Wilson kids — of different races, it seems — should be uniformly condemned and addressed as the disciplinary issue that it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

+1

The school should do something to address it, but families too. Ultimately the kids need to take responsibility and both parents and schools need to respond and address this. Schools can’t be blamed for everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

+1

Not excusing bad behavior, but private schools were not remote as long as DCPS was, so trying to draw that comparison fails; DCPS is only back to in person this school year and not even in a normal way. Stupid 4x4 schedule. My kids, by contrast, have been in person in private school with a normal schedule and routine since September 2020. I really don't think we are in a position to understand the social and emotional disruption this has caused and kids and their families. Many, many kids are not OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

I would agree with you that race really isn't the issue here. That said, there was racially charged language hurled by Wilson students (mostly white) at the head of sta (who is white), which is just odd, classless, and inappropriate--among other things.

But buried in a lot of the comments about race is an erasure of Asians, mixed race kids, etc, that is both off topic and troubling.

100 percent. The fact that people immediately focused on race is problematic. The behavior is the problem! The students should be ashamed of themselves. The parents should be horrified. And the school should be responding appropriately. And the blinkered view of race/ethnicity, as demonstrated by the erasure of Asian-Americans, mixed race kids, is problematic. This is the problem when people view others as either black or white, with their identities controlled by their race, rather than as human beings and individuals. The behavior of the Wilson kids — of different races, it seems — should be uniformly condemned and addressed as the disciplinary issue that it is.

+1

Not everything is a nail, but lots of people are dead set on being hammers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's leave race and school names aside, for a moment. Kids raided other kids backpacks, stole cell phones, smashed windows of buses and keyed cars. How can anyone be defending this or pointing fingers elsewhere?

Anyone can understand that this is a handful of individuals. There is no need to defend the behavior for fear they reflect poorly on an entire school.

Lost in all this is the fact a tournament, held in honor of a wonderful coach and lovely human being who died of COVID in the early spring of 2020, was cancelled.

It’s indefensible. With this glaring lack of accountability and owning up to poor behavior, is it any wonder why public schools are awash with violence? And no, it’s not Covid. This isn’t happening in private schools nationwide. Stop making excuses and fix your schools.

This.

Oh FFS. What the students is wrong. Not arguing with that. But this is insane. First of all the ability of DCPS schools to fix themselves is severely hamstrung by the bureaucracy of DCPS and the constraints the DC Council has placed on them. It is close to impossible to suspend/expel a student from a DCPS school. Couple that with 1.5 years out of school and the lack of emotional growth - its a mess and a challenge.

And, DCPS doesn't have the luxuries that private schools have. Our schools are big with all sorts of types in it. Not everyone has the desire to be there or fear getting thrown out. And more importantly, they do the most good. They are trying to educate and help those who need it the most. Put everyone in public and those schools would be infinitely better for all of the kids not just those who have wealthy or involved parents.

Sigh.