Scuffle at Yorktown HS today

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Yup, the kid is toast.

Hate crime? Really? You people are nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm not sure what fantasy world you live in, but there are actually far more discipline problems in "diverse" schools than in more homogenous ones. What does tend to happen is that black and Hispanic kids get disciplined more often -- there's a big problem with bias there.

I'm not sure how old your kids are?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm not sure what fantasy world you live in, but there are actually far more discipline problems in "diverse" schools than in more homogenous ones. What does tend to happen is that black and Hispanic kids get disciplined more often -- there's a big problem with bias there.

I'm not sure how old your kids are?

Not PP, but I don't believe this is true. I think when there is a school with a large majority of white students and educators/staff, and then a small minority of black and Latino children, this may happen. But it's my understanding that schools that are homogeneously poor/minority tend to refer more students to outside discipline. School to prison pipeline is being fed from homogeneously poor/minority schools. If you have studies indicating this is not the case, I'd be interested to see them. I think the zero tolerance policies that are unfairly administered are a real problem, but that would be due to staff/administration and their biases, not the demographics of the students they are responsible for educating. Segregation is never good and does not result in better outcomes for any students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Yup, the kid is toast.

Hate crime? Really? You people are nuts.

He's up against a pain-in-the-ass family where BOTH mom and dad came to snowflake's rescue at 11:30AM. It's always these type of what helicopters that get their way even when their kid is the cause of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I'm not sure what fantasy world you live in, but there are actually far more discipline problems in "diverse" schools than in more homogenous ones. What does tend to happen is that black and Hispanic kids get disciplined more often -- there's a big problem with bias there.

I'm not sure how old your kids are?

Not PP, but I don't believe this is true. I think when there is a school with a large majority of white students and educators/staff, and then a small minority of black and Latino children, this may happen. But it's my understanding that schools that are homogeneously poor/minority tend to refer more students to outside discipline. School to prison pipeline is being fed from homogeneously poor/minority schools. If you have studies indicating this is not the case, I'd be interested to see them. I think the zero tolerance policies that are unfairly administered are a real problem, but that would be due to staff/administration and their biases, not the demographics of the students they are responsible for educating. Segregation is never good and does not result in better outcomes for any students.

There are people who are in good faith lobbying for all-black or all-black male schools who would challenge your last sentence. Be sure to give them a lecture on the value of diversity.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Yup, the kid is toast.

Hate crime? Really? You people are nuts.

He's up against a pain-in-the-ass family where BOTH mom and dad came to snowflake's rescue at 11:30AM. It's always these type of what helicopters that get their way even when their kid is the cause of it.

Sounds like maybe he needed defending. Thugs need to learn a lesson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Yup, the kid is toast.

Hate crime? Really? You people are nuts.

He's up against a pain-in-the-ass family where BOTH mom and dad came to snowflake's rescue at 11:30AM. It's always these type of what helicopters that get their way even when their kid is the cause of it.

Sounds like maybe he needed defending. Thugs need to learn a lesson.

By high school, a teen should be learning to handle his own battles. Word gets out mommy and daddy are there---the kid is going to have even bigger problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Whatever. Yorktown is about 35-40% minority.

But it is almost entirely wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Whatever. Yorktown is about 35-40% minority.

But it is almost entirely wealthy.

It is about 15% FARMS, and there is a difference between non-FARMS and "wealthy."

[Anonymous]

If it happened at W-L or Wakefield people would have gone to jail. Yorktown, which I graduated from , has ALWAYS had a superior attitude. The parent should be in jail for one racist slurs, two trespassing, and assault on a minor. Nothing will happen though because these things go untouched at Yorktown.

[Anonymous]

Racial slurs are illegal you morons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Yup, the kid is toast.

Hate crime? Really? You people are nuts.

He's up against a pain-in-the-ass family where BOTH mom and dad came to snowflake's rescue at 11:30AM. It's always these type of what helicopters that get their way even when their kid is the cause of it.

Sounds like maybe he needed defending. Thugs need to learn a lesson.

Pretty uncool of you to call a kid a thug. The parents were the ones with the thug behavior.

[Anonymous]

Bully's are thugs. They get no sympathy. If parents had to get involved, I'm sure the kid is a real low life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it happened at W-L or Wakefield people would have gone to jail. Yorktown, which I graduated from , has ALWAYS had a superior attitude. The parent should be in jail for one racist slurs, two trespassing, and assault on a minor. Nothing will happen though because these things go untouched at Yorktown.

Had all of these things actually happened, the parent would or will be arrested. I strongly suspect they did not. Nor do I believe that a parent's presence on school property would be considered trespassing unless the parent refused to leave after being instructed to do so.

Why are you so crazy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bully's are thugs. They get no sympathy. If parents had to get involved, I'm sure the kid is a real low life.

I'm sure Biff told Mummy and Daddy the real story. Where was faculty/staff? Did Mummy/Daddy give them a chance first?