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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wood parent here. Mrs Slatcoff isn’t perfect but I would much rather she overreacted than to sweep it under the rug and try to hide the situation from the parents and students. And I assure you that the kids are talking about it and the message that this behavior is serious and will not be tolerated has come across loud and clear.

Having said that, there is still a lot of work to do at Wood on bullying issues, many of them racial in nature. I hope she comes down on those issues the way she has on this one. I think this incidence has shed a lot of light on many issues that entire community needs to openly address and I hope she is the one starting the conversation. [/quote]

Problem here is the principal is sending the message that the actual crimes like fighting and underage smoking/vaping won’t be dealt with and kids know it, but thought crimes- oh dear no you can’t do that- send in the COPS NOW! Unleash the dogs. Teach those kids they can’t write a word and delete it without police involvement, but they can beat the crap out of each other on a regular basis or smoke daily in the bathroom but that’s ok.

Do you really not see that as a problem?
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Who said they are beating the crap out of each other and smoking in the bathrooms? I said there was some bullying issues but it’s not like kids are getting into fistfights daily. [/quote]

At Wood?  Yes, there are a good number of fights.

What middle school do your kids attend?[/quote]

There are fights at every school and knowing the MC police, they are not required to be called.  It is for the school to decide.  If you want the police notified for all fights, they would be at every middle school at least 2-3x a week.  That is why they need an SRO at every middle school.  But that isn't going to happen.

Memo down from administration is to call police on all hate crimes.  Let the police decide.  Otherwise principals sweep everything under the rug.  She did her job and now the police will do theirs. [/quote]

Do you even know what a “hate crime” is? It’s not hateful speech. It has to be an actual crime *motivated* by bias. There might not even be any hateful words said (although you’d need evidence of the intent). If MCPS is telling principals to report offensive speech to the POLICE as a hate crime, that’s pretty disturbing. And almost certainly would (if fairly applied) result in many many POC getting reported to the police. [/quote]

How about administration and police know more about what is going on, what they saw, and the 3 people involved than you do.

But keep putting your 2 cents in [/quote]

If there was a crime here, it would have been in the letter. The complete silence as to any actual harm caused to an actual person leads me to believe there was no harm, so no crime. [/quote]

There was no crime.  [/quote]

I can guarantee you that there are kids openly calling other kids “f*ggot” at this school. Are they all being reported to the police?[/quote]

No, never.  And the N word gets thrown around (not just by Black kids, but by plenty of Asian and Brown kids also).  Not reported to police (to be clear, I don’t think it should be reported to the police).  This was a huge over-reaction.  [/quote]

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