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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surprised by RM and BCC

Out of school suspensions and expulsions 
Gaithersburg 146
Paint Branch 79
Richard Montgomery 47
Bethesda Chevy Chase 41
Quince Orchard 21
Watkins Mill 12
Blair 12
Churchill 10
Whitman 12
Wooton 8[/quote]

If you divide these numbers by the total school population and multiply by 1000, you get a coefficient that mirrors school quality.[/quote]
Let's face it.. the list mostly corresponds to a list of schools by wealth.[/quote]

That is not universally true. There obviously is a correlation between poverty and crime, but many of the W middle and high schools have alarming security and safety issues as well.

In lower-income schools, this manifests often as fighting. But in wealthier school populations, you need to watch out for the substance use more so.

But even then, weapons are popping up in those schools too. One of the recent students caught with a gun within MCPS was at Walter Johnson High School, a school in a very wealthy part of MoCo.[/quote]

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