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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former Whitman parent until very recently here, the school has had a massive ongoing problem with failure to keep the campus safe, drug dealing and drug use. There are woods behind the school where students go to and from the school throughout the day to deal and use all kinds of drugs. Reports here are accurate about arrests, but the school won't comment because it's off campus, even though they know who leaves and returns throughout the day engaging in drug activity and dealing, and make no effort to stop them. There is also a serious culture now of dealing and trading Chinese peptides, testosterone and other concerning use.

For the last several years and especially since the former principal departed, Whitman has been in steep decline in terms of safety, education, parent communication and basic processes. They don't have school dances anymore for Homecoming because a student was sexually assaulted. Instead of addressing such a serious safety issue, and making the school safe for all students, they just stopped having a dance. In 2022, a coach and teacher was convicted due to SA offenses with minors.

The school has tremendous security problems, with vaping, violent fights and drug us/dealing open and known. Knives, guns and other weapons are brought to school and easily smuggled past the security. Students have reported the security guards are apparently in on it. Sadly, there's also a rotating group of students bused in from Baltimore placed in group homes who have ongoing weapons, opiate and cocaine dealing charges and continue to operate out of the school. Even troubled students have a right to care, support, and educational opportunity, but not without the guardrails and adult oversight to make sure there's even a chance to do so, which harms not just them, but also other students at school they deal to and engage in criminal activities.

I was shocked at the lack of timely, engaged parental communication when issues arose, often only hearing months later, or receiving letters from the current principal that were vague and followed by few changes to actually address the situation. Students easily fall through the cracks there, both because most of the staff is on auto-pilot and it's such a big school and leadership assumes students' families can just pay for expensive tutors or other outside-of-school supports due to the nature of the school district. They also were hit hard by the Maryland educational budget changes, so money now leaves the district and impacted Whitman notably, and the MoCo Board of Education has made many bad decisions since.

Whitman's previous reputation is no longer accurate, and I deeply regret that my child went there. Our family is still dealing with the personal impacts of the school's failure to ensure a safe environment for all students. I hope the school will take seriously that this has been so out of control, for so long, that students felt emboldened to do something so blatant right near the school. I hope this leads to change for the students still there.[/quote]

So you're a former parent and you no longer have kids in school there.  Yet somehow you still know about the inner workings of the school, the school culture, and about principal communication with parents.  How is that so?  [/quote]

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