Anonymous
Post 03/14/2025 18:50     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Anonymous wrote:That's why I send my kids to private at a Big 3 school in DC. I am struggling paycheck to paycheck to make the tuition, but I can't see them in public school getting beat up and witnessing fights like before. They are very smart and athletic and needed a different outlet and peer group than what MCPS could offer. I'm grateful both of them applied to sought after privates and got in.

I'm a black parent too but I don't know the full story regarding this video, so I will not judge.


Yea for you. There are not enough spots nor can all of us afford that.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2025 21:59     Subject: Fight at Whitman
That's why I send my kids to private at a Big 3 school in DC. I am struggling paycheck to paycheck to make the tuition, but I can't see them in public school getting beat up and witnessing fights like before. They are very smart and athletic and needed a different outlet and peer group than what MCPS could offer. I'm grateful both of them applied to sought after privates and got in.

I'm a black parent too but I don't know the full story regarding this video, so I will not judge.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2025 08:55     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Whats next Vikings?
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2025 08:00     Subject: Fight at Whitman
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Anonymous wrote: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.

So.. where should those kids be sent to? Anywhere other than Whitman? NIMBY at its finest.


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


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


To your 3) : no not just Whitman families, all families feel that way


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...


Parents needs to teach their kids how to physically defend themselves.

It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Teach your kid to throw a punch so they’ll be ready. If the school won’t protect them, parents have to.

It’s utter BS that all of “those kids” in those poor DCC schools are used to violence and know how to fight, but PP who said that BS already knew that and just wanted to be a dumb troll.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2025 07:40     Subject: Fight at Whitman
It seems like just yesterday the kids were beating the crap out of each other for their twitter fights channels and admin were firing teacher right and left because we feared for our safety and they didn't want us reporting incidents.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2025 07:39     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share about the meeting? I wasn’t able to attend.


Check the other thread:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/1259798.page

There were cameras not sure whom where it will be posted if but local outlets will or have probably reported on the meeting.
Anonymous
Post 03/05/2025 07:35     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Can anyone share about the meeting? I wasn’t able to attend.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2025 13:40     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Anonymous wrote:Whitman parents are you attending tonight's safety meeting?


They definitely should be.
Anonymous
Post 03/04/2025 13:36     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Whitman parents are you attending tonight's safety meeting?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2025 21:11     Subject: Fight at Whitman
Anonymous wrote:

What role would an SRO have played if any in this situation?




Back before SROs curtailed, they did a good job disrupting these types of things before they happened. They got their information from students through relationship building and worked to head off conflicts. There’s a reason all the principals wanted to keep the SRO program the way it was. They were a valuable resource for high schools