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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whitman is probably the wealthiest school in an already wealthy county. For that reason, they have been vilified and guilted into taking various low income, disruptive students. Because why should well-off kids from nice backgrounds be able to live peacefully huh? They should be forced to live in terror too.

Now you see the end result of supposedly "compassionate" programs. It's really just score settling and old vendettas come to life. Resentment for the achieving and functional class and punishment for their children.

If Whitman parents dont do something about this they should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. [/quote]
So.. where should those kids be sent to?  Anywhere other than Whitman?  NIMBY at its finest.[/quote]

How about a school in their own neighborhood? With kids from a similar background who are used to dealing with this particular brand of BS[/quote]

You can always count on Whitman parents to come through with three arguments:

1) We aren't THAT rich. We're practically poor by Saudi standards.

2) All problems at Whitman are the fault of the "the group home"

3) Whitman families should be able to "buy out" of dealing with kids who have experienced trauma[/quote]

To your 3)  :roll: :  [b]no not just Whitman families, all families feel that way[/b][/quote]

Apparently that's not the view of the poster who said kids should go back to their own neighborhoods where the other kids know how to deal with them...[/quote]

For normal people you dont have to "buy your way out of trauma". How are parents who raised their kids in a nice, clean neighborhood, didn't abuse their children, didn't raise their kids while strung out on drugs or alcohol, and generally did a good job, supposed to be responsible for utterly FUBAR kids whose parents have failed them in every way, or may have just been born criminals (who knows?) with severe behavioral and psychological issues?  For that matter, how are 14 and 15 year olds supposed to possible "handle" and deal with these kids that even grown adults are frightened of and unable to manage?  You seem to think that there's some kind of magical air in the 20817 zip code that's going to instantly cure these kids of their violent tendencies... and that the exceptional SAT and testing scores of Whitman students is due to some kind of osmosis/luck, where as soon as you step foot in a 500 foot radius of the building your antisocial personality disorder and illiteracy will vanish. That's not the case- most Whitman parent prioritized their children, helped them with their homework, taught their kids to be diligent and hard working... and now you want to place the burden of dysfunctional juvenile delinquents on them because "it's not fair that your kids are doing so well and these kids arent!" That's sick.[/quote]

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