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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually saw that on our listserv too.  It's a small community and the posters are people we are familiar with.  This was a very serious incident and is not just idle gossip.  Law enforcement is now involved. I hope the community really presses the principal to be more accountable for the violent and threatening action of the students he releases out into the neighborhood.  I don't think it's happening all the time and the really bad stuff happens only occasionally, but the reality is that it can be a pretty rough place and it's gotten to the point where many people in the surrounding community no longer feel safe because of the violence that goes unchecked.  The principal says there's nothing he can do.  It takes the police 15 minutes to get there, so by the time they arrive the kids have dispersed.  [/quote]

There's some misinformation in this post.  The principal (a she, by the way) is working with MCPS security and MCPD to address the issue, and is addressing it within the school with kids.  I don't think she ever said, "nothing I can do, it's off school grounds" but that's how people took it.

The school can take a number of steps in concert with the police, and I'm sure they will.  Eastern does have a very rough element and MCPS has also chosen to place at the school a program for kids with anger management problems -- perhaps not the best place to do so.  However, kids in the school are safe -- this happened after school, off school grounds, and is indicative of social issues that are part of the population feeding into the school.  I am in and out of that school all the time and I've never experienced anything scary.  I can tell you that most of the kids there are great and the school works hard to deal with issues that are typical of a school population that's generally low income, limited English speaking, etc.

Part of the issue with the incident currently making the listserv rounds is that the poster allowed her daughter to run up to the fighting kids and tell them to stop.   The fighters then told the kid they were going to beat her up, too, which made the poster say, "they threatened to kill my kid."  She needed to call 911 and then go into the school and call the school security staff, which is trained to deal with this kind of thing.

I"m not excusing the fighting -- far from it -- but people need to use common sense.
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Did the parent "let" her child tell the kids to stop, or is there some basic instinct that prompts people to intervene when they see a 12 year old kid being severely beaten?  I think this is a little close to blaming the victim.  [/quote]

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