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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. This had nothing to do with school rivalries: At least one of the worst cases involved a BCC kid beating up another BCC kid (a cheerleader, actually!) -- entirely unprovoked.

The only thing this had to do with football or rivalries, it seems, is that a group of kids heard stories of past years' fights and came to downtown Bethesda to get in on the action. I haven't seen anyone who was at the football game suggest that this was a case where things got heated at the game and spilled over into the streets: These were not kids who came for football; these were kids who came to fight.

2. Here is the solution: Parents from both schools engage community members, alumni, and members of the community to plan Friday night events, in coordination with police, in which supervising adults fan out (haha) throughout the downtown area after the game, eyes on Chipotle, eyes on the metro. Make it a fundraiser or use the occasion to raise awareness of this or that issue. The idea is to do what makes Bethesda boring the vast majority of the time: Have adults out and about and don't allow kids to congregate in numbers.

Or, just, like have police do it?

LIke, it sounds like they did a fine job at the actual game. I'm pretty surprised that they weren't already keeping a watchful eye on Chipotle, which is precisely where kids have been fighting in the past. Betcha they don't make that mistake again...![/quote]

[b]The kids who plotted and decided to plan and launch an assault on their fellow students for fun, bragging rights or for an opportunity to rob them, are not going to show up to school-sanctioned post-game events. Don't be naive.
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Additionally, the answer is not to burden more adults with making sure adolescents who should know better don't behave with increased monitoring. The school system doesn't have the personnel to do this and I doubt it can be sustained with parent volunteers over the long haul.

The answer is to punish the kids who did this, to wake them up to the reality that their actions have consequences. Publicize those consequences so their peers who might similar ideas understand that that's not the route they want to go down. It's really just that simple.

Adults with agendas, however, get in the way of this.[/quote]

That's the point: fill the vacuum of dark quiet streets with annoying boring parents lol 
(Google routine activity theory.)  Prevent crime by looking out for potential targets or victims, supervising potential offenders, and filling places with wright watchful eyes and literal or metaphorical bright lights.

Research shows clearly that the chance of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent than even draconian punishment. 
(Maybe not as emotionally satisfying though lol )

The more challenging part of this is the thing teens do -- I don't know what the word for it is -- but where they glorify and copy each other's dangerous and violent behavior. From the teen suicide epidemics of Gen X's youth to the copycat mass shootings, there is a sociological component here and no easy answers -- but cool if you think you have them lol
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Fill.the dark quiet streets??? This happened st a Bethesda metro stop at 9 on a Friday!
There was a video a year or so ago of another girl assaulting a police officer!
This is a community problem. It's a problem created by a school system that pits bad actors back in the general population. [/quote]
You seem a bit confused. MCPS' job is to educate our children. It isn't a law-enforcement agency. You need to look elsewhere for that.[/quote]

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