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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the buyers have kids, I really hope they're tracking the VA Public Schools other than FCPS thread (ACPS -- what am I missing?).  The news from there is very disheartening.  A cover-up of a rape at Minnie Howard and then the [b]11 cell phone thefts at GW?[/b]  Not good.  That house feeds to both of those schools.

Most of all I feel badly about that poor girl.  Not only was she raped but now is she is back in school with her rapist?

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Cell phone thefts?  The horror....

https://wjla.com/news/local/bethesda-chevy-chase-high-school-student-attacks-assaults-security-guard-montgomery-county-public-jacob-moore

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/police-investigating-fight-between-students-near-walter-johnson-high/

https://patch.com/maryland/bethesda-chevychase/racist-homophobic-graffiti-found-nearby-walter-johnson-high

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/arlington-police-investigate-sexual-battery-case-high-school-homecoming-game/65-21f7bc59-afaa-43e4-87b1-fad06bf1dd94

https://wjla.com/news/crime/probe-finds-potomac-school-teacher-abused-26-students-over-decades-104644

The above links are from 6 minutes of googling and I'm sure there's tons more out there.  The point is not the ACPS is perfect (it's not), but rather than no school district is perfect.

I don't understand how people fail to appreciate that 1) kids of all SES backgrounds do dumb and sometimes evil things and 2) sometimes adults do too and 3) bad things happen in middle/high schools...all the time, regardless of how expensive or fancy they are.

Life has risks, and adolescents are not great at assessing/understanding/mitigating risks so crap happens.  It's unfortunate, but it's reality.  The cyclical bashing of schools in Alexandria, Arlington, NWDC, CCMD, Bethesda, SS screams of people who grew up rich and the mistakes of the middle/high school kids around them were quietly covered-up by their well to do parents and neighbors.  That's no the reality most of the country (or world) gets to experience.  The schools in all of these places have terrific things to offer their students if a kid comes in open to learning and the parents are meaningfully involved with the development of their child.[/quote]

LOL at you.  It was in one day in a single incident from a locked room.  They have videotape of who entered the room but refuse to release it.  No one has been charged with a crime.  The kids whose phones were stolen were basically treated like it was their fault.[/quote]

+1000. My daughter was told- and then I was told- that they are 'responsible' for their own belongings and they shouldn't have valuable in their bag. That's complete BS. The kids have to have a secure area to lock their phones while changing for gym.  When the thefts were discovered the SRO asked parents to use the find feature and all of them, save 3 new Iphones, were found in a trash can in the library. It takes zero effort to figure out who had access at a certain time to both areas. The suspect would be Id'd in 5 minutes of looking at the schedules.

So instead of arresting the thief, the school blamed my daughter for being a victim. Nice lesson there.[/quote]

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