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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://moco360.media/2024/12/09/wootton-high-principal-placed-on-leave-racist-incident/

[quote]The students said this isn’t the first, second or even third time anti-Black incidents have drawn what they consider to be an inadequate response at Wootton. Michael Williams, a social studies teacher at Rockville High School and co-county coordinator of the Minority Scholars Program, said there’s been a pattern of anti-Black racist incidents that have occurred over the past two years at Wootton.

“There’s actually been a few incidences that have already occurred this year, so it’s very infuriating and demoralizing to see this pattern continue,” Williams told MoCo360 on Sunday.[/quote]

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Ok yet how can a Rockville High school teacher say this - that multiple incidences have happened this year in Wootton, yet no one has said them, mentioned them, or are even currently for news articles, being specific with what these incidences are.  If you are going to start saying all of this stuff and bringing it in the news, top county administrations, crisis counselors and pulling kids out of class time for culture learning events, shouldn't the parents and students at Wootton know about all of these accusations spefcically instead of a general statement with no backup?   I am a parent and I know none of these things.  One letter about the printer incident last year, one letter about the desk last week, a quick text on Monday morning 20min before school started that said all of these crisis counselors and staff will be there supporting kids all day.  I thought someone died and was so confused because no email was ever mentioned as to why this was happening. Then a county email about the substitute incident at 5pm last night. Not one thing about our principal.  None.  If he was put on leave, the school's families have not been notified.  And in none of those letters did they talk about if the student was found out, what the discipline was, what is happening to the substitute (shouldn't they have said immediately fired?)   So I guess I am having issues with the media trying to overtake this without any back-up on actual recurring incidences (state them!), or any consequences for the kids that did this.  And most of the kids are rumbling/gossipping that the kid who vandalized the desk is black. So how does that fit into the anti-black narrative they are creating if this was the only incident that families know of for this year?  Overall it has been handled so poorly.  I understand they have to keep minors names private but at least say, we have the person, they are being disciplined.  We fired the substitute, we put the principal on leave for XYZ reasons.  If anyone is accused again, this will be the course of action the school takes, etc...  Instead the entire school is being punished for 1 person who did a terrible thing and a substitute teacher that the county hired.  Families are completely in the dark about this.  Let us know all of these incidences that have happened this year.  Let us know why the media is saying the principal is gone, but families were not notified.  Otherwise this looks terrible on all sides.   [/quote]

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