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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like a B-CC insider spilled the goods to Moderately MoCo. It was a good piece: https://moderatelymoco.com/dont-ban-cell-phones-until-you-mcps-and-boe-can-keep-kids-safe-and-out-of-lockdown/

[QUOTE]From video and photos, teachers and students quickly recognized many of the students involved in the Wednesday 10:10 AM group fight near B-CC’s campus, where gunshots were fired and two shell casings were found, no doubt leading to the quick arrest. It also forced B-CC’s administration to admit that its students were involved. And the images, apparently, based on the two separate firearm charges, helped investigators determine that there was not one, but two guns, involved in the incident, as had been widely speculated in the larger B-CC school community.

[size=18]How did this happen?[/size]

B-CC school has many doors and essentially has an open-door policy – there’s nothing keeping kids on campus, and they often come and go as they please. School leadership knows the trouble spots – the main office has taken calls for years about students smoking weed and dealing drugs in that part of Bethesda, but MCPS’s official view and policy is that anything that happens one millimeter off its property is not its problem. Students plan their fights, etc. accordingly. They know there are basically no consequences (ask Whitman families what happened after the bathroom fight). This is, after all, a system where last school year, underaged B-CC students who participated in armed carjackings during school hours were back in class the next day, openly bragging to teachers and students about their exploits. Students are also aware of which of their peers have access to guns or even carry them to school. It’s an open secret that too many MCPS school administrators apparently don’t seem to be interested in.

[size=18]All of this is part of the failure to create any safety culture at MCPS[/size]

But instead of working for safe schools, MCPS and individual principals threaten students who film incidents with consequences as severe as the perpetrators – and spend far more time publicly scolding the students who capture these incidents on their phones. Consider this: Based on their actions to date, if MCPS ran MCPD, there would never be a single police body camera anywhere in the force.[/QUOTE][/quote]

There's nothing about this piece that requires one to be a B-CC insider "spilling the goods." This is just someone making broad unsubstantiated statements, like the one about students involved in the carjacking last year being back in school the next day bragging about it. There's no evidence that this is the case. I agree that the videos of these fights have proven important in identifying those involved and students who film acts of violence shouldn't receive the same punishment as those who commit those acts - and I don't think they do receive the same punishment. But let's not act like the students recording these fights are social justice activists trying to hold people in power accountable, as is the case for those who record acts of police violence (and at least part of the purpose of body cams). The students recording these fights are typically involved in the planning of the fight and are there to record if for social media glory. [/quote]

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