You fully describe what happened and your daughter even saw a video of it, yet you claim you are here to find out what happened? Sounds like you just want to blame this incident on Trump. |
Wait a second!!! They have food trucks? Really? Who knew? |
I thought Yorktown was all white |
Da fuq kinda rinky dink article is that, citing this anonymous message board that has no facts? Journalism is dead, if we didn't know that already. |
I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington. |
They want to disregard anyone whose child goes to a S Arlington middle school. Because Lyon Park is such a slum, right? |
Ummm...the only provocateur came from your own school. Nobody at WL would have even known about it without this thread and subsequent arlnow article. It's amazing there is still zero ability to accept any blame or look at oneself. And they wonder why their kids end up like this...seeing dad yelling racial slurs at kids. |
Again, why were there adults/parents involved at 11:30am on a Tuesday? Do these dads work? Both mom and dad were there? This isn't the first day of preschool. This is high school. Nobody ever answered this ? They were outside the school so it doesn't appear they were there for a meeting. Was the kid texting from school? This whole thing is so effing weird. |
Please try a little harder not to sound so outrageously stupid. I don't recall Yorktown parents rushing to generalize about the culture at W-L just because some W-L students were fighting with each other after a football game this fall. |
The parents weren't fighting with the kids. I grew up in Fairfax County. Fights were common. Parents were never in them with the kids. |
There is no indication the YHS parent was fighting and I'm quite sure that, with all the helicopter parents in Fairfax, some of them have yelled at other kids before. Get a life. |
NoAr is my little Haven away from DC, so it saddens me to hear about events like this so close to my home. Worried about this... |
I've always been a firm believer that the less diversity a school has the more stuff like this happens. I see it at my nephew's schools out in PW county. They have many instances like the one in this thread. When you are constantly around kids of all different SES, racial, social backgrounds there is naturally more tolerance and acceptance of those differences. We actively looked for 'good' public schools with at least 20-30% or so diversity. You can find these schools in Arlington---even N. Arlington. My kids have good friends from all kinds of backgrounds. There are many International families. Some FARMS, some rich, some where English isn't a first language. The kids are so much more tolerant. In fact, it's not so much tolerant as they just expect it as normal. They don't even question or think about that so and so's parents don't speak English or they don't live in a house or they don't celebrate Christmas. Yes- you can teach your kids this stuff, but living and being friends with other kids like this is much different. My sticking point when looking at neighborhood schools was I didn't want them surrounded by all rich kids. Mo' $, mo' problems. |
Yup, the kid is toast. |
Whatever. Yorktown is about 35-40% minority. |