Kipp Key student threatens vice principal with handgun and knife. He's 12.
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A *loaded* handgun, to boot.
https://twitter.com/Fox5Wagner/status/1186771702128304134 |
Anonymous
| And heading back to DCPS I presume |
Anonymous
He will enter the juvenile justice system. Don't be an ass. |
Anonymous
Since when does DC discipline juveniles delinquents? |
Anonymous
They need to transfer him to another Kipp campus. |
Anonymous
You do know that DC has a youth jail aka the juvenile detention center? |
Anonymous
Federal law requires schools to expel students who bring a firearm to school. |
Anonymous
With an educational program run by DCPS. http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Youth+Services+Center |
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Actually, DC has two juvenile facilities. One on Mt. Olivet with a program run by DCPS (for youth awaiting adjudication) and another in Laurel, MD (for longer term detained youth) with a program run by a charter https://www.seeforever.org/tag/new-beginnings-youth-development-center
The violence in this city for youth, specifically those in EOR communities, is striking and indiscriminate about DCPS or charter. Let's not allow this forum to politicize something that all of our city youth are crying for us to address. It is horrible that our students feel the need to carry weapons, make threats such as these, and harm the schools tying to serve them. I hope that all of the teachers and staff at the school are coming together to support one another and encourage everyone to see this as a part of a larger issue of violence impacting our youth (for both the victims and the aggressor). |
Anonymous
And Maya Angelou is at the other detention center: https://dyrs.dc.gov/service/secure-facilities |
Anonymous
Your point? They all get a slap on the wrist and end up back on the street. |
Anonymous
and eventually they'll end up back at DCPS at their neighborhood school, you can bet KIPP won't be taking this child as a high schooler! |
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this. I promise you he is back home with his caregivers and at most will get a suspension but of course DC Council wants to disallow all suspensions. He will be in DCPS. |
Anonymous
I work for the city and trust me, cops don't even usually bother minors with handguns. Nothing happens, they are released within 12 hours, none go to juvenile unless I killed or critically injured someone. The average person arrested for murder in DC, already has at least 10 prior gun arrests. |