Anonymous
04/23/2025 23:34
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Isn’t this the school fcps is trying to move kids to via boundary. No one is going to want to be moved to this school.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 23:21
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This county is becoming a joke. I hope that teacher is brought down.
I’m a teacher and I’m not about to get involved when a student has a knife.
Do you want violent kids to remain in school? Or be expelled?
Crickets from the teacher. Why?
I am a teacher. Violent students deserve an education but it doesn’t have to be in person. They can do online schooling IMO.
Not a bad idea. Also, FCPS offers several programs for students who have experienced difficulties with the law or need alternative educational settings. These include Alternative High Schools like Bryant High School and Mountain View High School. Additionally, Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) such as Bryant, Burke, Montrose, and Mountain View provide specialized support for students needing more individualized instruction.
Students who stab other students are not going to Bryant, Mountain View, etc. They are heading to juvie (where, yes, they will have access to classes).
Anonymous
04/23/2025 22:47
Subject: Re:West Potomac HS situation
If they let one parent pick up their kid early, then they would need to devote staff to allowing all the parents there to also get their kids early.
It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.
When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.
Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH
It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.
When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.
Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:42
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:My kid who goes to a private school NOT in Fairfax has seen the video. I got a message from her a few minutes ago re there being a stabbing at WestPo and a video. So whatever video is out there has spread.
Cell phones and social media has broken our kids.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:28
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
NBC4 has some video and doesn’t show any adults at all in the beginning.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:18
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Intervening and stopping are two different things. I would stop and from safe distance yell things to try to help until SRO gets there. Or be there to apply pressure when fight disperses.
Well, by all means sign up to be a teacher then! You seem to have it all figured out.
Yes maybe they can be admin and the teacher.....I'd bet money they'd run screaming the other way during a food fight.
"yell things to try to help"
like what?
Better to walk by with no sense of urgency and do nothing. SMH
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:16
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This county is becoming a joke. I hope that teacher is brought down.
I’m a teacher and I’m not about to get involved when a student has a knife.
Do you want violent kids to remain in school? Or be expelled?
Crickets from the teacher. Why?
I am a teacher. Violent students deserve an education but it doesn’t have to be in person. They can do online schooling IMO.
They do get online schooling while suspended by the discipline office. I teach them.
Great. They shouldn't be returned to in person school. Period.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:10
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Video is on Reddit where someone points out during a fight a teacher literally walks by, takes a photo of the fight and keeps on walking.
I’m a teacher and I wouldn’t stop. I stopped a fight once between 5th grade boys and was punched in the ear. I had ringing in my ear for nearly two weeks.
HS teacher. I tried to stop a fight between two boys in my HS class my second year of teaching and one of them threw me against a desk. I fully realized after the fact that if I had stumbled and fallen backwards, I could have broken my neck against the edge of that desk. When I later told my colleagues about the incident, they said "why did you get involved?"
Another time I tried to break up a hallway fight between two girls. Not only did I not succeed, I turned around when the SRO broke them up only to realize that a huge crowd of kids had gathered around us, many were smiling and laughing and all of them were holding their phones up above the throng to film the scene.
Raise your kids to behave decently before you expect a teacher to intervene in anything.
Curious…are teachers discouraged from filling charges against students? I feel like that should be a higher priority.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:10
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Intervening and stopping are two different things. I would stop and from safe distance yell things to try to help until SRO gets there. Or be there to apply pressure when fight disperses.
Well, by all means sign up to be a teacher then! You seem to have it all figured out.
Yes maybe they can be admin and the teacher.....I'd bet money they'd run screaming the other way during a food fight.
"yell things to try to help"
like what?
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:06
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: Video is on Reddit where someone points out during a fight a teacher literally walks by, takes a photo of the fight and keeps on walking.
I’m a teacher and I wouldn’t stop. I stopped a fight once between 5th grade boys and was punched in the ear. I had ringing in my ear for nearly two weeks.
HS teacher. I tried to stop a fight between two boys in my HS class my second year of teaching and one of them threw me against a desk. I fully realized after the fact that if I had stumbled and fallen backwards, I could have broken my neck against the edge of that desk. When I later told my colleagues about the incident, they said "why did you get involved?"
Another time I tried to break up a hallway fight between two girls. Not only did I not succeed, I turned around when the SRO broke them up only to realize that a huge crowd of kids had gathered around us, many were smiling and laughing and all of them were holding their phones up above the throng to film the scene.
Raise your kids to behave decently before you expect a teacher to intervene in anything.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:04
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Intervening and stopping are two different things. I would stop and from safe distance yell things to try to help until SRO gets there. Or be there to apply pressure when fight disperses.
Well, by all means sign up to be a teacher then! You seem to have it all figured out.
Yes maybe they can be admin and the teacher.....I'd bet money they'd run screaming the other way during a food fight.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 21:01
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:the boy in the red shirt thought he could fight ....
YOU are part of society's problems.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 20:59
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This county is becoming a joke. I hope that teacher is brought down.
I’m a teacher and I’m not about to get involved when a student has a knife.
Do you want violent kids to remain in school? Or be expelled?
Crickets from the teacher. Why?
I am a teacher. Violent students deserve an education but it doesn’t have to be in person. They can do online schooling IMO.
Not a bad idea. Also, FCPS offers several programs for students who have experienced difficulties with the law or need alternative educational settings. These include Alternative High Schools like Bryant High School and Mountain View High School. Additionally, Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) such as Bryant, Burke, Montrose, and Mountain View provide specialized support for students needing more individualized instruction.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 20:58
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
It’s terrible this happened in this school system. Some of the responses are just full on racist. I’m not a fan of some of DEI policies but you all are making a case of why racism as a topic is still relevant in schools.
Anonymous
04/23/2025 20:34
Subject: West Potomac HS situation
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This county is becoming a joke. I hope that teacher is brought down.
I’m a teacher and I’m not about to get involved when a student has a knife.
Do you want violent kids to remain in school? Or be expelled?
Crickets from the teacher. Why?
I am a teacher. Violent students deserve an education but it doesn’t have to be in person. They can do online schooling IMO.
They do get online schooling while suspended by the discipline office. I teach them.