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I agree. When I was in HS in the mid-90s, fights were common, on and off school grounds. Schools like the one I attended are routinely treated with derision on DCUM, but such behavior is nothing new.[/quote]

I went to Wilson in the mid-90s.  I was one of those loud black teenagers hanging out by the Tenleytown metro and loitering in Metro Center.  I was disruptive and annoying to commuters on the trains.  Now, I am a highly educated professional mother of two posting on DCUM (and I have the HHI that goes with that).  Now, I ride Metro home and sometimes encounter today’s version of me and my HS friends.  While they may annoy me, I can look at them and know that the way they are acting after school on the train with their friends is in no way indicative of who they are as human beings and what they might go on to achieve as adults.  When you are in DCPS, the Metro is your school bus and the behavior you see on the trains is for the most part teens being teens.  I see the white Metro commuters eyeing these teens, and I just know that they don’t see them the same way I do.  They look slightly afraid and definitely dismissive of these children.  The general tone on this thread confirms that.  It makes me sad.[/quote]

Did you kick the s*** out of other students in large mobs in metro stations?  Did you mob-attack random adults who happened to be in the metro at the same time?  Did you form flash mobs to do "swarm" shoplifting forays into the stores around Chinatown/Gallery Place?

The reason people are afraid of the DCPS students who hang around Metro Center is that some of them - not all, clearly, but certainly some - do really scary, awful things to innocent people and are a constant security problem for nearby businesses.  I am not aware of any comparable group of kids, of any race, in the metropolitan region who pose a similar threat.  I'm scared to think about my (OOB, traveling to Tenleytown) middle-schooler getting caught in the middle of this; I'm scared I could be hurt.  And I'm also annoyed when I see irritating middle- and high-school students of any race acting stupid - including the white teenagers who have started hanging around on Capitol Hill smoking pot.  If and when they gang-mug someone, I'm going to start giving them the evil eye too.[/quote]

If you are so annoyed about teenagers (regardless of race) engaging in illegal activities such as smoking pot in a public space, what have you done other than bitching about the situation on DCUM?  And why do you think smoking pot will lead to a gang-mug?  More likely a trip to 7-11 in my experience.[/quote]

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