Bullied Northwest HS student murdered; mother got no help from BOE

[Anonymous]

If your kid is being bullied, share the screen shots on social media. Tag the PTSA, the superintendent, State colleges, community college, news media, DCUM, etc.

Write that this kind of social media posting will be send to college admissions committees to show what kind of character the bullies have.

Of course, if the bullies don't intend to go to college, then you will not stop them, but you will certainly make the mute bystanders avoid the bullies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can people mail sympathy cards to the mother in care of the Northwest Principal at school address?

Is this to make you feel better?

+1 if you want to make yourself feel better, start caring about special needs kids. Start caring about kids who don't do well in a school with 2000 others. Because some times those kids do so not well , they don't even survive

I looking at these principal twitter pages with memes and bs "we stand with ... xyz"
No you don't. You don't stand with them at all.

I have a kid with special needs. I don't need people telling me to care.

I want to send the mother a sympathy card but need some kind of address. Anyone can obtain the school address.

Have you ever heard of Google?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kid is being bullied, share the screen shots on social media. Tag the PTSA, the superintendent, State colleges, community college, news media, DCUM, etc.

Write that this kind of social media posting will be send to college admissions committees to show what kind of character the bullies have.

Of course, if the bullies don't intend to go to college, then you will not stop them, but you will certainly make the mute bystanders avoid the bullies.

Seriously a great idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

MCPS has a virtual academy but you needed to request that way back in the spring to get in.

Then maybe it should have been requested because this isn't making sense. The mother is accusing MCPS of killing her child but...he went missing on Jan. 7th. He was not found murdered (in a residential neighborhood) until Jan. 25th. In the same county and same area he's from - so he wasn't kidnapped or abducted across the country or into the woods somewhere.

So where's he been for the past 3 weeks? Obviously alive somewhere. Hanging with the wrong crowd?

Stop being racist trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/kolbiereports/status/1486141379571032065?s=21

Watch the interview.. really upsetting.

It's tragic but I'm pretty sure this is not the kind of thing the board of education handles. It seems like you just want to use this family's tragedy for your own political agenda.

[Anonymous]

Heartbreaking.

Agree with the PP that the problem is not MCPS as a whole. I'd submitted that bullying form for my DD, the principal was outstanding and tactfully handled the situation, which turned out to be a misunderstanding, and I'm forever grateful to her and the school. One problem could be poor leadership from the principal.

Another problem is the bullies' parents. It is absolutely unacceptable for my DC to be cruel to anyone, and I'm so proud of her everyday conduct. She is kind to her classmates. We were somewhere with a lot of children with special needs, and I was surprised that she didn't notice anything different about them or their behavior. They are regular people in her eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope a great lawyer steps forward to help the mother sue the pants off MCPS and the Board of Ed. Her son needed help. Now he is dead.

This. Which attorney with guts will step up?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is being bullied, share the screen shots on social media. Tag the PTSA, the superintendent, State colleges, community college, news media, DCUM, etc.

Write that this kind of social media posting will be send to college admissions committees to show what kind of character the bullies have.

Of course, if the bullies don't intend to go to college, then you will not stop them, but you will certainly make the mute bystanders avoid the bullies.

Seriously a great idea.

actually, it isn't for the victim either, unless you can anonymize the victim's name. My DD was a victim of bullying, and she would've been super embarrased if I had taken screenshots of it and shared it so publicly.

But, I did indeed take the screenshot just in case, then responded to the bully stating.. "This is <name> parent. I see these <texts, IG, whatever>. Please stop." Then I made sure that DD blocked that person.

Obviously, it doesn't work on every social media, and I can't control what happens in school, but IMO, sharing the screenshot so publicly would embarrass your child, as well. But, do keep logs and records in case you need to report incidents to show a pattern of behavior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/kolbiereports/status/1486141379571032065?s=21

Watch the interview.. really upsetting.

It's tragic but I'm pretty sure this is not the kind of thing the board of education handles. It seems like you just want to use this family's tragedy for your own political agenda.

You are either wrong or intentionally lying. The Board of Education takes up student transfers and placements at every meeting. They do it in closed session so no one can watch them continually deny parent requests. Parents are never allowed to speak or attend these hearings. It's all done behind closed doors to keep parents and the public in the dark.

[Anonymous]

I am so sorry for the mother. I feel like parents have some responsibility in this too. A girl at DD's middle school has posted really hurtful things about another student calling this child bad words and making up accusations. It was on a group chat of 50 or more students.

I'm sure other parents are reading in on this too if they are monitoring social media accounts. The school did nothing after I reported it, and other parents clearly did nothing because the messages are still there. Not. to mention that girl's parents. Who raises a child who posts that kind of thing?
Shame on her, her parents and the. other kids and parents who didn't report it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So many bad decisions by mcps/BOE and these are the consequences that are coming to light. It’s disgusting and harmful to children and their families. They can talk all they want about ‘equity’ and standing up for vulnerable families but at the end of the day MCPS/BOE has caused so much irreparable harm.

100% THIS! A friends daughter was being bullied and they kept denying to move her to another school. Their restorative justice BS put the perpetrators in a room with the victims which only escalated the attacks. The daughter had a breakdown and MCPS didn't give a shit but they were on board with their extra week of vacation! They can all f themselves.

Sadly, there are numerous stories just like this one. My daughter's friend (they're in middle school) was incessantly bullied by a boy who also sexually assaulted her. The school's response was to put the victim and the assailant into a room where the assailant got to express his feelings of pain with stories on how his father abandoned him..tears in his eyes and everything. Daughter's friend felt guilty and they literally hugged it out. Two weeks later, the assailant did the same thing to another girl. MCPS response? Move the kid to another middle school. What a load of sh*t!

MCPS isn’t alone in this, unfortunately. Look at the recent rape case in Loudon County. Our kids are victims of really, really bad progressive policies.

Progressive school policies are not the root of this. Schools have been ignoring all kinds of behavior for forever. You should have seen what LCPS was like way back when when it was all white and all right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know more. There are no answers in the interview. He was a 12th grader - what other program did she want him sent to? Does MCPS not still have virtual optional learning in 2022 - couldn't he have been kept remote?

MCPS has a virtual academy but you needed to request that way back in the spring to get in.

Then maybe it should have been requested because this isn't making sense. The mother is accusing MCPS of killing her child but...he went missing on Jan. 7th. He was not found murdered (in a residential neighborhood) until Jan. 25th. In the same county and same area he's from - so he wasn't kidnapped or abducted across the country or into the woods somewhere.

So where's he been for the past 3 weeks? Obviously alive somewhere. Hanging with the wrong crowd?

Stop being racist trash.

I agree. What a vile, hateful, despicable poster. Who are you pp and why do you hate this murdered child?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is being bullied, share the screen shots on social media. Tag the PTSA, the superintendent, State colleges, community college, news media, DCUM, etc.

Write that this kind of social media posting will be send to college admissions committees to show what kind of character the bullies have.

Of course, if the bullies don't intend to go to college, then you will not stop them, but you will certainly make the mute bystanders avoid the bullies.

Seriously a great idea.

actually, it isn't for the victim either, unless you can anonymize the victim's name. My DD was a victim of bullying, and she would've been super embarrased if I had taken screenshots of it and shared it so publicly.

But, I did indeed take the screenshot just in case, then responded to the bully stating.. "This is <name> parent. I see these <texts, IG, whatever>. Please stop." Then I made sure that DD blocked that person.

Obviously, it doesn't work on every social media, and I can't control what happens in school, but IMO, sharing the screenshot so publicly would embarrass your child, as well. But, do keep logs and records in case you need to report incidents to show a pattern of behavior.

+1 horrible idea for the victim to publicize the bullying even wider -- even if you occlude the name. To the victim, every single person who knows amplifies the humiliation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I hope a great lawyer steps forward to help the mother sue the pants off MCPS and the Board of Ed. Her son needed help. Now he is dead.

This. Which attorney with guts will step up?

Just fyi, that's not how lawyering works. The parents have to seek out a lawyer. "Ambulance chasing" is the term for the unethical behavior of lawyers "stepping up" to find victims to represent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope a great lawyer steps forward to help the mother sue the pants off MCPS and the Board of Ed. Her son needed help. Now he is dead.

This. Which attorney with guts will step up?

Just fyi, that's not how lawyering works. The parents have to seek out a lawyer. "Ambulance chasing" is the term for the unethical behavior of lawyers "stepping up" to find victims to represent.

Disagree. There are ethical ways to do it, and you know it.