Violence around MacArthur H.S.

[Anonymous]

Nobody's even brought up the ninja attacks yet! NINJAS!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a MacArthur HS parent. My child says this is adults freaking out and that the school is safe and other than being "loud and annoying" the D6 bus that most take is also safe.

So you don’t think finding weapons and getting beat up is a big deal……..

Evidence?

OP says the neighbors are posting it on the list serve. Another poster, who lives in the neighborhood verified that they saw it on there.

I'm on the Palisades listserve and have seen nothing of the sort. People are losing their cats, setting stuff out for free, and advertising programing at the library....

It wasn’t on Listserve, it was on Nextdoor. And as a fellow Palisades neighbor, I can confirm that it was.

Ah yes, Nextdoor, home of rational, sane assertions.

[Anonymous]

The hiding knives in yards thing sounds an awful lot like something a St Petersburg troll (who doesn’t know about US gun laws) would dream up. As someone who actually used to carry a knife as a teen, I’m trying to imagine a scenario in which hiding my knife on a stranger’s property for them to find would make sense. Also, DC kids have handguns. Why would they hide a knife?

This reminds me of over the top troll posts about Wilson when my kid was there, complete with supposed dialog that the posters claimed to have heard _inside_ the school. It’s like their only idea of American black culture came from movies like Dolemite in the 1970s. They used what the posters imagined to be DC slang that wasn’t used even in the 70s, much less now. Hilariously, when directly asked questions about the layout of the school (“where’s the library?”), the posters made up answers that revealed they didn’t even understand that the school was multiple connected buildings.

There are a lot of weird trolls on DCUM (and Nextdoor) who make a lot of dumb stuff. No idea why, but it’s worth noting that there are thousands of people in Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, and Venezuela whose only mission is to post to US and European social media trying to amplify social divisions. Given the volume of attacks on all US social media, it’s statistically certain that some DCUM posts come from those people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a MacArthur HS parent. My child says this is adults freaking out and that the school is safe and other than being "loud and annoying" the D6 bus that most take is also safe.

So you don’t think finding weapons and getting beat up is a big deal……..

Evidence?

OP says the neighbors are posting it on the list serve. Another poster, who lives in the neighborhood verified that they saw it on there.

I'm on the Palisades listserve and have seen nothing of the sort. People are losing their cats, setting stuff out for free, and advertising programing at the library....

It wasn’t on Listserve, it was on Nextdoor. And as a fellow Palisades neighbor, I can confirm that it was.

Ah yes, Nextdoor, home of rational, sane assertions.

DP and no skin in the game but Nextdoor is very helpful. Lots of posts about real crime that is not reported but warning other neighbors to be aware.

OP is not a troll with this post. She asked a legit question and yoi MA families are crazy to vehemently deny something just because you did not see it and call her a troll or someone posting on Nextdoor a troll.

Frankly it reeks of defensiveness and desperation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hiding knives in yards thing sounds an awful lot like something a St Petersburg troll (who doesn’t know about US gun laws) would dream up. As someone who actually used to carry a knife as a teen, I’m trying to imagine a scenario in which hiding my knife on a stranger’s property for them to find would make sense. Also, DC kids have handguns. Why would they hide a knife?

This reminds me of over the top troll posts about Wilson when my kid was there, complete with supposed dialog that the posters claimed to have heard _inside_ the school. It’s like their only idea of American black culture came from movies like Dolemite in the 1970s. They used what the posters imagined to be DC slang that wasn’t used even in the 70s, much less now. Hilariously, when directly asked questions about the layout of the school (“where’s the library?”), the posters made up answers that revealed they didn’t even understand that the school was multiple connected buildings.

There are a lot of weird trolls on DCUM (and Nextdoor) who make a lot of dumb stuff. No idea why, but it’s worth noting that there are thousands of people in Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, and Venezuela whose only mission is to post to US and European social media trying to amplify social divisions. Given the volume of attacks on all US social media, it’s statistically certain that some DCUM posts come from those people.

Agree. Let us resolutely foil the aggression and intervention moves of the DCUM imperialists and dominationists!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a MacArthur HS parent. My child says this is adults freaking out and that the school is safe and other than being "loud and annoying" the D6 bus that most take is also safe.

So you don’t think finding weapons and getting beat up is a big deal……..

Evidence?

OP says the neighbors are posting it on the list serve. Another poster, who lives in the neighborhood verified that they saw it on there.

I'm on the Palisades listserve and have seen nothing of the sort. People are losing their cats, setting stuff out for free, and advertising programing at the library....

It wasn’t on Listserve, it was on Nextdoor. And as a fellow Palisades neighbor, I can confirm that it was.

Ah yes, Nextdoor, home of rational, sane assertions.

DP and no skin in the game but Nextdoor is very helpful. Lots of posts about real crime that is not reported but warning other neighbors to be aware.

OP is not a troll with this post. She asked a legit question and yoi MA families are crazy to vehemently deny something just because you did not see it and call her a troll or someone posting on Nextdoor a troll.

Frankly it reeks of defensiveness and desperation.

The people who defend Nextdoor are, almost always, the biggest loons on Nextdoor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gun violence near Washington, D.C.’s public and charter schools doubled since 2014, outpacing other U.S. cities like Milwaukee, Memphis, Detroit, and Atlanta.

Since 2017, school-adjacent shootings have declined in Baltimore while Washington experienced an overall rise.

The 10 district public schools with the most shootings nearby all have majority Black student populations. Ketcham Elementary School topped the list with a whopping 195 nearby shootings in the past decade.

https://datahub.thetrace.org/2024/12/behind-the-stories-nbc-news4-shootings-near-schools/

As DC implements the $1.1 billion cuts in DC's expenditure of DC tax revenue caused by House Republican leadership's refusal to move S. 1077--which would allow DC to continue to operate with funds allocated for FY25--that will result in further cuts in law enforcement, which will mean more violence and shootings in DC.

True and it’s going to mean serious decrease in overall funding for schools, forcing them to cuts lots of support and extras.

Title 1 schools like MA will be hit the hardest.

[Anonymous]

Parent of a MacArthur student who has never heard of guns or weapons being stashed anywhere nor of violence around the school. There are occasional fights they say but this also happened when we were at JR. The kid rides the bus home every day to Burleith or GP and while buses are crowded and sometimes a bit rowdy, they are no worse than JR which we also have experience with. You’ve heard here from a PTO parent who has never heard of this complaint either. If the Nextdoor stories were true and if the students were the suspects, why would the school not have been informed? Makes no sense. More neighborhood hysteria.
At the beginning of the year there was a group of grumpy neighbors camped out every morning blocking their private road. Their concern was that parents would use their road to turn around or pull into to drop off. Now that may be entirely within their right, but the idea that any of these private road protectors would not raise holy hell over “hidden weapons” is preposterous. These folks set up chairs and a barricade every morning for months and barked at anyone who came near their road. No way these same people also find weapons stashed in their yards and just post on NextDoor.

[Anonymous]

I saw a terrible fight outside the school today and they continued this in DuPont. I think that students who are not from the area have to go to their neighborhood because they bring a lot of violence .

[Anonymous]

New principal PLEASEEEE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a terrible fight outside the school today and they continued this in DuPont. I think that students who are not from the area have to go to their neighborhood because they bring a lot of violence .

So you saw the fight outside the school and then followed these violent kids all the way to Dupont (not DuPont)? That's is some seriously psychopathic behavior. Seek help.

[Anonymous]

No, I came down before. But someone else told me what happened. Why, the school had to do something and not let them go. Because you always defend bad actions. The school needs to call the police.

[Anonymous]

Can half of the posters in this thread please stop normalizing illegal behavior because it’s “regular high school kids behavior”?! It’s not! WTF is wrong with you people?

I grew up in a ‘third world country’ and went to one of the worst high schools in my city. No one was smoking weed anywhere near school, either on the way to school, nor on the way back. Serious fights where someone got hurt were so rare, we may be had one per year, if at all. The people at fault were immediately expelled. Always being late or missing school a lot was not considered normal. Normalizing this means failing the kids that are never held accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can half of the posters in this thread please stop normalizing illegal behavior because it’s “regular high school kids behavior”?! It’s not! WTF is wrong with you people?

I grew up in a ‘third world country’ and went to one of the worst high schools in my city. No one was smoking weed anywhere near school, either on the way to school, nor on the way back. Serious fights where someone got hurt were so rare, we may be had one per year, if at all. The people at fault were immediately expelled. Always being late or missing school a lot was not considered normal. Normalizing this means failing the kids that are never held accountable.

+1, except I went to HS in the US

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Anonymous wrote:Can half of the posters in this thread please stop normalizing illegal behavior because it’s “regular high school kids behavior”?! It’s not! WTF is wrong with you people?

I grew up in a ‘third world country’ and went to one of the worst high schools in my city. No one was smoking weed anywhere near school, either on the way to school, nor on the way back. Serious fights where someone got hurt were so rare, we may be had one per year, if at all. The people at fault were immediately expelled. Always being late or missing school a lot was not considered normal. Normalizing this means failing the kids that are never held accountable.

+1, except I went to HS in the US

Another +1 here. And that’s why I’m so careful about where my kid will attend school.

My county had a smaller, “alternative” high school. The expelled or soon to be expelled kids that couldn’t function in the public went to “alternative” where it was much, much stricter with more serious repercussions — and actual counseling — but most kids (even those from opposing gangs) managed to graduate with a GED and get a practical, vocational education vs being sent off to juvie. And it worked. In DC, I don’t know what happens to these kids. Nothing is my best guess due to lack of resources and proper oversight.