DCHS Students Brawl at Gallery Place

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

sorry for the silly question, but who is Word Salad lady?

I envy you for your ignorance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

My kid was safe in her DC public high school. It was when she went to private school that she was sexually assaulted. She also got drugs and alcohol from her addicted rich friends. (Hmmm, at least two heroin addicts that I knew of. I'm sure there were more.)

You folks do what you want but upper middle class white kids are pretty good at hurting each other in very serious ways and getting away with it. Your kid has a lot more to fear from his/her rich white friends than from the average working class/poor black kid at DCPS. But I know that it's even pointless to raise this in this forum when the fear has gripped everyone by the throat.

This is of course why poor children and their families refuse to send their kids to places like NCS, Maret, and Sidwell Friends. They're simply too dangerous to attend. You should write a column on this subject in Slate.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

That's ridiculous. My son is at Banneker and that would NEVER happen at Banneker. Never.

You are kidding yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

That's ridiculous. My son is at Banneker and that would NEVER happen at Banneker. Never.

You are kidding yourself.

No, the fighting in Dungeons and Dragons doesn't count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

sorry for the silly question, but who is Word Salad lady?

I envy you for your ignorance.

I am actually embarassed. I thought I was a regular reader. darn, I still have a long way to go to be a real DCUMer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

That's ridiculous. My son is at Banneker and that would NEVER happen at Banneker. Never.

You are kidding yourself.

No, the fighting in Dungeons and Dragons doesn't count.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. It all happens off campus.

Anyone remember when the freshman got his face pounded in by 3 other "freshman" who were 17 and 18?

That was at the start of Rhee's tenure as I recall.

Then it happened in 2007. A lot has changed since then.

How about the demographic of the student population?

Well, you can't get in OOB anymore...

Of course you can, you go through the feeders. That is the problem.

What are the Wilson feeders?

The schools whose students, both IB and OOB, have the right to attend Wilson. They include Deal, Francis, Hardy, Oyster, and a couple others I don't remember. Around 30% Wilson students are out-boundary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Horrible, and sad to think what these brawling thugs progress to later:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/he-was-almost-unrecognizable-beating-victims-wife-testifies/2013/04/30/59ee8078-b1a6-11e2-bbf2-a6f9e9d79e19_story.html

No way will I send a child of mine to a DC public high school.

My kid was safe in her DC public high school. It was when she went to private school that she was sexually assaulted. She also got drugs and alcohol from her addicted rich friends. (Hmmm, at least two heroin addicts that I knew of. I'm sure there were more.)

You folks do what you want but upper middle class white kids are pretty good at hurting each other in very serious ways and getting away with it. Your kid has a lot more to fear from his/her rich white friends than from the average working class/poor black kid at DCPS. But I know that it's even pointless to raise this in this forum when the fear has gripped everyone by the throat.

This is of course why poor children and their families refuse to send their kids to places like NCS, Maret, and Sidwell Friends. They're simply too dangerous to attend. You should write a column on this subject in Slate.

Yep, go ahead and be sarcastic. It doesn't change the fact that the anxiety about your children in DCPS is way overblown. What well-to-do white parents have to worry about is the well-to-do white kids that their children actually hang out with. Your kids aren't going to run with the working class/poor black kids who are getting into these fights. Nope, they're going to face much bigger challenges coping with the craziness in their own peer group, which, as was mentioned above, includes a growing interest in heroin use.

But then this is typically the way people think. Every college tour we took, the tour guides made a big deal of all the "blue lights" on campus so anyone who was attacked could call for help. But the truth is that most sexual assaults are committed by someone known to the victim, not some stranger jumping out of the bushes at night on a college campus. It's the same with your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The brawl involved McKinley Tech and Wilson Students. Pretty frightening.

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/04/gallery-place-metro-brawl-leads-to-several-arrests-88184.html

on the bright side, this shows that at least they know how to read

[Anonymous]

Oh please!!! U can wipe and flush this crap about racial overtones. Let y'all tell it I am affiliated with Eastern, McKinley and probably many others. It is a black and white issue and if you don't think so, then let me be the first one to call you DAC on this forum. Both schools are principaled by whites and here we are acting like that this is an insignificant factor.

While the gentrification mafia uses the pre-notion that any school lead by AAs is deficiant in a prescribed category. I am the first one to embrace familiarity brings comfort and those who look like us are better teach us. So in retrospect I agree with the snowflake society.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please!!! U can wipe and flush this crap about racial overtones. Let y'all tell it I am affiliated with Eastern, McKinley and probably many others. It is a black and white issue and if you don't think so, then let me be the first one to call you DAC on this forum. Both schools are principaled by whites and here we are acting like that this is an insignificant factor.

While the gentrification mafia uses the pre-notion that any school lead by AAs is deficiant in a prescribed category. I am the first one to embrace familiarity brings comfort and those who look like us are better teach us. So in retrospect I agree with the snowflake society.

What about Pope at Hardy? As I remember, the people he looked like couldn't wait to get rid of him and those who looked like him in poor lighting wanted him to stay.

On the other hand, if Wilson had a black principal, would you think it was normal for the white kids to be beat up the black students?

Personally, I hold to the idea that principals should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

sorry for the silly question, but who is Word Salad lady?

I envy you for your ignorance.

I am actually embarassed. I thought I was a regular reader. darn, I still have a long way to go to be a real DCUMer

Read 10:54's message (vis-a-vis the gentrification mafia and snowflake society) and bask in the deliciously garbled syntax dressed in the piquant sauce of racism. Mmm, yummy.

[Anonymous]

11:00--nicely done. Perhaps it could be added to the FAQ?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please!!! U can wipe and flush this crap about racial overtones. Let y'all tell it I am affiliated with Eastern, McKinley and probably many others. It is a black and white issue and if you don't think so, then let me be the first one to call you DAC on this forum. Both schools are principaled by whites and here we are acting like that this is an insignificant factor.

While the gentrification mafia uses the pre-notion that any school lead by AAs is deficiant in a prescribed category. I am the first one to embrace familiarity brings comfort and those who look like us are better teach us. So in retrospect I agree with the snowflake society.

What about Pope at Hardy? As I remember, the people he looked like couldn't wait to get rid of him and those who looked like him in poor lighting wanted him to stay.

On the other hand, if Wilson had a black principal, would you think it was normal for the white kids to be beat up the black students?

Personally, I hold to the idea that principals should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

I agree. This is a link to the Mclean v Langley high school student fight at the Mclean Mcdonalds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYho2Gnppxs

Bottom line is I don't want to be on the metro at certain locations at specific times. Nor do I want to be at any high school hangouts when they are there enmass. This recent fight I regard as more of a problem for going to Chinatown and the Verizon Center than who works at or goes to what high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please!!! U can wipe and flush this crap about racial overtones. Let y'all tell it I am affiliated with Eastern, McKinley and probably many others. It is a black and white issue and if you don't think so, then let me be the first one to call you DAC on this forum. Both schools are principaled by whites and here we are acting like that this is an insignificant factor.
While the gentrification mafia uses the pre-notion that any school lead by AAs is deficiant in a prescribed category. I am the first one to embrace familiarity brings comfort and those who look like us are better teach us. So in retrospect I agree with the snowflake society.

Wait - your point is that the kids fought at Gallery Place because their respective high schools' principals are white? I'm intrigued - please explain further.