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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BCC has major problems; anyone who denies this is understandably defending the school their kids go to. The kids roam around aimlessly, there’s no lunchroom, and it seems like it’s basically an IB degree mill for parents who enrich heavily at home and a four year purgatory for those who don’t. The kids we’ve met fall into these categories as well; the rich, enrichment focused parents in east Bethesda push their kids hard and they do well, and then there’s a big divide to a lot very underwhelming, poor discipline kids. Pot has become a huge problem, too, but we can’t talk about that because marijuana is good now, or something. I’d put BCC below WJ and WC at this point.[/quote]

Student behavior was so bad at the end of the school year that BCC's principal had to issue a smackdown: https://bcctattler.org/3287/news/administration-implements-new-policies-to-address-student-misconduct/

[QUOTE]The B-CC administration released new policies to quell students’ “destructive behavior,” according to Dr. Mooney. The new policies include random hall sweeps and requiring students to sign out when leaving a classroom. “In the event of a hall sweep, we will make an announcement that we are conducting a hall sweep and ask teachers to lock their doors,” Dr. Mooney told teachers in an email sent on June 6.

“We have seen a marked increase in destructive behaviors at B-CC over the past few days, including graffiti and vandalism in several areas of the building,” wrote Dr. Mooney in the May 30 community message while explaining the new protocols’ reasoning, adding, “As we look to maintain the safety and security for everyone in the building, we will be implementing the following protocols for the remaining days of school.”[/QUOTE]

Another story highlights that kids are showing up to BCC drunk or high and lighting trash cans on fire so they can throw unauthorized parties on school property during the school day: https://bcctattler.org/3246/news/uptick-in-student-misbehavior/

[QUOTE]In the past two weeks, [b]two ambulances have been called to B-CC (or B-CC sponsored events) over drug-related incidents, students have shown up to school intoxicated, a trash can was lit on fire, and red paint was splattered on four B-CC bathrooms[/b].

Principal Dr. Mooney released a community message on Tuesday, May 30, indicating that B-CC will have a change in protocols for hall passes “due to the increase in destructive behaviors at B-CC over the past few days.” Mooney explained to Tattler, “the last straw was on Tuesday when we had someone go around to several bathrooms and take what looked like red ink and just throw it all over the place. Building service then had to repaint four of our bathrooms.” Mooney continued, “My initial hope was that we just had to get the seniors out, but clearly when it continued happening on Tuesday it was not necessarily the seniors.”

A B-CC senior who wishes to remain anonymous showed up to school intoxicated on Friday and explained that [b]“What made me feel like this was acceptable was the fact that at B-CC it’s quite difficult to get in trouble for just about anything. I figured the worst thing that could happen was maybe I couldn’t walk at graduation, and I saw that as highly unlikely. So I just went through with getting drunk.[/b]” Additionally, a video circulated the school of seniors taking shots in the boys’ bathroom.

Students being intoxicated at school wasn’t the only issue that occurred Friday. Students carried out a series of  vandalism and rioting across the school. A B-CC senior who wishes to remain anonymous, confirmed that a trash can was lit on fire in the B3 hallways between the 6th and 7th periods. “The whole hallway smelt like something was burning while I was walking to 7th period,” junior Annie Isaacson told Tattler staff.

[b]The fire was a solid distraction for the party that was occurring in F3 [hallway][/b]

Security confirmed that a trashcan was lit on fire.

“The fire was a solid distraction for the party that was occurring in F3 [hallway],” said an anonymous student who participated, referring to the large gathering of students in the F3 hallway that were chanting and throwing garbage cans around, causing a major disruption to the passing period.[/QUOTE]
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