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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood. [/quote]

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school! [/quote]

True, but the shelter kids tend to be pretty short term. Whitman can be a challenging environment because many of them are several grade levels behind and even the 9th grade level is a challenge. So they skip classes. The school really tries to work with them but they often end up going back to their families in other parts of the state. [/quote]

We need to look at reopening Mark Twain for these kids. Plopping them into regular schools is not working.[/quote]

Clearly we need a school where we can put all the violent kids that don’t belong in regular schools. They can get the attention and discipline they need there, and meanwhile the rest of the kids can get a good education without living in terror.

Why is this so difficult??[/quote]Because progressives[/quote]

But really, because funding and staffing. There is not enough money for the discrete programs in county school right now, and special education teachers can’t get out of MCPS fast enough. Even if the found the funding to open a building, there would not be enough teachers to run it.[/quote]

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