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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There is currently a documented case of a troubled Black student with mental health issues who was pushed into the alternative learning, suspension and expulsion cycle I described that Alex Ye skirted: When Alexis Jones’s son, Jailyn, faced bullying issues at Clarksburg High School and made threats that got him suspended, his mother BEGGED MCPS to let him remain virtual so he would no longer be targeted by his peers at school. She was instead told that Jailyn HAD to report to Northwest and that online school was not an option.[/quote]

You are leaving out the part where Jones had access to a weapon and brought a loaded gun to school.

No part of me wants to excuse the threats that Ye made, but there is a material difference between a kid who admits homicidal thoughts to a counselor, and a kid who brings a loaded gun into an MCPS classroom.
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Uh, wouldn’t Jailyn bringing a gun to his previous school due to unaddressed bullying give MORE reason for MCPS to allow Jailyn to remain virtual than not?

MCPS refused the ask because he was Black, low-income and his mother lacked a powerful attorney to force MCPS to make it happen, unlike Alex Ye.[/quote]

Or...totally different scenarios resulted in different disciplinary actions. Jones had access to weapons and ammunition. That's a HUGE difference between him and Ye, who was already in treatment and who did not have access to weapons. It's just flat-out not the same thing and bringing up Jones without mentioning that he brought a loaded gun to school is wildly irresponsible. [/quote]

You have failed to substantiate why Jailyn bringing the gun to school justifies MCPS’s decision to not let him continue his education online rather than continuing in person at Northwest with the same bullies he clashed with at Clarksburg?

Furthermore, the “treatment” Alex Ye was receiving was CLEARLY either inadequate or merely a ruse to get him out of hot water after he made his threats because Ye went on to write his manifesto despite this treatment.

Which proves my original point: wealthy, privileged, non-Black or Hispanic families can buy or legalese their kids out of consequences. The only people who argue otherwise are privileged white people who don’t want to concede the truth out loud.[/quote]

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