Ridiculous goings on at St. Albans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If this is such "old news", then why are YOU commenting? Stop trying to sweep this under the rug.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. Old news. So move on, Cathedral Iconoclasts.

Because I wanted to say "Cathedral Iconoclasts", that's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move on, who cares. Also, comment about Anacostia HS was unecessary.. FYI, Anacostia is not a bad school, stop by and pay a visit..

I didn't read it the same way you did.

In our city there are many kids, many wonderful kids, who will get one shot at life (sorry, pun unintentional). The fact is that these kids at StA's will get another chance -- while they might or might not end up graduating from the same school or attending the same college that they would have if they hadn't made the monumentally stupid decision, they will either end up OK or have many more chances to do stupid things before they really pay the price for them.

If a student at Anacostia made the same mistake they wouldn't get the same chance. Because our society barely give low income young black men one chance if they're lucky. I can guarantee that a DCPS school would have expelled for this, and pressed charges. And those firearm charges would haunt them forever.

My reading of the Anacostia comment was, stop defending them, stop making excuses, and stop whining about privileged kids coming into contact with a small portion of the consequences others would face in this city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Move on, who cares. Also, comment about Anacostia HS was unecessary.. FYI, Anacostia is not a bad school, stop by and pay a visit..

I didn't read it the same way you did.

In our city there are many kids, many wonderful kids, who will get one shot at life (sorry, pun unintentional). The fact is that these kids at StA's will get another chance -- while they might or might not end up graduating from the same school or attending the same college that they would have if they hadn't made the monumentally stupid decision, they will either end up OK or have many more chances to do stupid things before they really pay the price for them.

If a student at Anacostia made the same mistake they wouldn't get the same chance. Because our society barely give low income young black men one chance if they're lucky. I can guarantee that a DCPS school would have expelled for this, and pressed charges. And those firearm charges would haunt them forever.

My reading of the Anacostia comment was, stop defending them, stop making excuses, and stop whining about privileged kids coming into contact with a small portion of the consequences others would face in this city.

My reading, too.

[Anonymous]

...and I wanted to call you out for being a pretentious phony, so now I guess we're both happy!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If this is such "old news", then why are YOU commenting? Stop trying to sweep this under the rug.

Anonymous wrote:Seriously. Old news. So move on, Cathedral Iconoclasts.

Because I wanted to say "Cathedral Iconoclasts", that's why.

[Anonymous]

Kudos. This is one of the most reasonable and well articulated posts that I've read in a long time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Move on, who cares. Also, comment about Anacostia HS was unecessary.. FYI, Anacostia is not a bad school, stop by and pay a visit..

I didn't read it the same way you did.

In our city there are many kids, many wonderful kids, who will get one shot at life (sorry, pun unintentional). The fact is that these kids at StA's will get another chance -- while they might or might not end up graduating from the same school or attending the same college that they would have if they hadn't made the monumentally stupid decision, they will either end up OK or have many more chances to do stupid things before they really pay the price for them.

If a student at Anacostia made the same mistake they wouldn't get the same chance. Because our society barely give low income young black men one chance if they're lucky. I can guarantee that a DCPS school would have expelled for this, and pressed charges. And those firearm charges would haunt them forever.

My reading of the Anacostia comment was, stop defending them, stop making excuses, and stop whining about privileged kids coming into contact with a small portion of the consequences others would face in this city.

[Anonymous]

Are they leaving STA? Someone posted as much on another thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good grief. Thanks for reminding me why we chose to live in VA with the rednecks instead of in DC with the crazies. Just last week I transported my son's friend's airsoft gun -- across state lines no less (from MD to VA) -- so that they could play after school in our woods (yep, we have woods in VA). Had I gone to DC for an errand and a police officer looked into the back of my SUV (which already appears highly suspicious in DC because it sports a pro-life bumper sticker), I guess I could have been arrested, too. I understand why parents living in DC would not want their sons playing with BB guns, because most people do not have yards big enough to allow safe play. But since some of us in MD and VA do, and some of us feel this is much healthier recreation than socializing with strangers on facebook or sitting in front of a giant screen playing Guitar Hero, DC law enforcement obviously needs to take into account that this is a metropolitan area and not arrest teenagers, who presumably had a MD license plate on their car, for forgetting to take the BB gun out of the back seat!

Thanks for your sane response.