Anonymous wrote:12 pages of comments and feel the need to provide some actual facts: This was not a brawl, fight, or melee (as media is reporting). This was assault. This was a group of thugs laying in wait for unsuspecting WJ students so they could assault them. Use of thugs meaning violent, aggressive person, especially one who is a criminal. There were multiple assaults on multiple victims and multiple videos posted, not just the one viral group mob. These assaults were not because of the outcome of the football game. This wasn't rowdy WJ and BCC students exchanging words that ended in fist fights. This was groups of thugs, who used the game as a means to assault unsuspecting students while video tapping the assaults and posting them to social media. The assailants were from BCC and possibly some from other locations (but this is not confirmed yet). Some did not even attend the game and some were kicked out of the game (making them more fired up). There were several robberies committed that evening too. There were BCC students also assaulted by these thugs. There were students being chased by them and frantic calls to parents to be picked up. Some of the assailants had ski masks. They caused chaos in a wide urban area that the police (County and Metro) were not prepared for. There are WJ and BCC students who helped one another, tried to protect each other, and continue to reach out and support each other. There are students who ended up at the hospital. There is real student trauma and parent outrage at both schools. The assaults, batteries, robberies, chases, etc. seem random on their choice of victims, but premeditated in the sense the assailants knew they were prepared to cause harm and film it. There has been multiple BCC students suspended. It is still unclear whether, if any, criminal charges can be filed on any of the assailants who are under the age of 18 since Maryland, supposedly, has laws that makes criminal punishment difficult unless murder or rape is involved. I don't know anything about this law so I'm not stating this as fact.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

This is a good reminder to talk to our teens about texting 911. And +1 to the first aid training. You have to tell one specific person to call 911.

Yes when kids are "assaulted" they do call 911 but when they know its just a fight between teenagers they don't.

I take it one of your darlings is under investigation.

Oh hon. Your kid wasn’t assaulted he fought and lost.

Get him into MMA and/or tell him to go home not to a fight after a game.

Anonymous wrote:When Whitman students made racist postings on social media.. but from their home, and on a private social media account, they got in trouble at school and had it reported to the police:

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/04/two-whitman-hs-students-wore-blackface-school-said/

I think some are calling for the school to punish the kids involved in these fights. That would be consistent based on the Whitman incident. But is it happening?

In the Whitman case, I'm not sure students should be punished for their speech that occurs out of school on their own time. That's a slippery slope. But speech is not illegal (I assume the police did nothing since no crime was committed). The difference in the BCC/WJ case is a crime was indeed committed, based on the video.

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Anonymous wrote:It was also reported by several that the girl in the long braids, sports bra and black leggings/white stripes (video) was following and threatening others who were able to get get away. Her and her sidekick were looking to be violent.

Also, there are a few others where the assault was not caught on video who were more seriously injured than those in the videos that have been shared.

This can't be swept under the rug and criminal charges must be filed!

these kids need to be moved to an alternative school.

they were moved to b-cc -they were not suspended, they were in class yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

This is a good reminder to talk to our teens about texting 911. And +1 to the first aid training. You have to tell one specific person to call 911.

Yes when kids are "assaulted" they do call 911 but when they know its just a fight between teenagers they don't.

I take it one of your darlings is under investigation.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

There is a rampant "no snitching" culture and attitude in Gen Z. We as parents and a community have to break our kids of this. It is toxic and corrosive to everyone's collective and individual wellbeing.

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Telling, complaining or reporting something = Karen.

I loathe that term.

My kids are at Blair and “snitches get stitches” is absolutely 100% a thing. Probably more so for my son than daughter. Who wants to get their a$$ beat because they told on someone?
I agree it’s a terrible culture but how does one stop it?

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

There is a rampant "no snitching" culture and attitude in Gen Z. We as parents and a community have to break our kids of this. It is toxic and corrosive to everyone's collective and individual wellbeing.

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Telling, complaining or reporting something = Karen.

I loathe that term.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

There is a rampant "no snitching" culture and attitude in Gen Z. We as parents and a community have to break our kids of this. It is toxic and corrosive to everyone's collective and individual wellbeing.

Anonymous wrote:It was also reported by several that the girl in the long braids, sports bra and black leggings/white stripes (video) was following and threatening others who were able to get get away. Her and her sidekick were looking to be violent.

Also, there are a few others where the assault was not caught on video who were more seriously injured than those in the videos that have been shared.

This can't be swept under the rug and criminal charges must be filed!

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Everything McKnight Says is scripted, edited, double checked not said off the topnof her head and what she said was its on the parents. Passing the buck back onto parents is a symptom of ineffective leadership.

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Anonymous wrote:It was also reported by several that the girl in the long braids, sports bra and black leggings/white stripes (video) was following and threatening others who were able to get get away. Her and her sidekick were looking to be violent.

Also, there are a few others where the assault was not caught on video who were more seriously injured than those in the videos that have been shared.

This can't be swept under the rug and criminal charges must be filed!

these kids need to be moved to an alternative school.

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Anonymous wrote:I talked with my WJ kid — who was not there— about the fact none of the kids called the cops. His feeling was that no one would want to be seen as the one calling the cops. We discussed that you can text 911 with something like need help, address—send police now. And then send a video if possible to do so safely. My teens were really happy with that information as they thought they could do any of that discretely. Please talk to your kids about this.

But it’s also important o recognize that peole in a traumatic situation often don’t think rationally. When I did first aid training they taught us to yell Call 911 and identify a specific person to do so because if you tell call an ambulance, a shocking number of people blank on what the number is, and also if you just yell it into the crowd, everyone will assume someone else called. And that’s with adults!

This is a good reminder to talk to our teens about texting 911. And +1 to the first aid training. You have to tell one specific person to call 911.

Yes when kids are "assaulted" they do call 911 but when they know its just a fight between teenagers they don't.