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Anonymous wrote:It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

I agree. Parents need to parent, they are in high school — not in college or adults yet.

What about 18 year olds in HS?

You mean the held back by their parents kids... does it surprise you these kid are acting up.

My thought is that if those parents had been parenting those full 18 years those kids wouldn’t be doing violent, dangerous or disrespectful things at age 18.

All these years on DCUM (horrifying), and I still don't know what posters mean when they talk about parents parenting (or not parenting).

Anonymous wrote:THere was a bus providing transportation to the WJ players back to their home school? Do buses usually provide transportation to games for football players?

Signed - mom to a field hockey player who is expected to car-pool to take kids to away field hockey games. Or the kids drive themselves.

Off topic, but my dd was also in a minor sport. The school said they could arrange bus transportation but kids would have to leave school very early (missing like 3 periods) so busses could get back in time to do their routes. Parents opted for carpool but honestly, if I'd missed one email on it I would have assumed no busses were available. More senior parents opted for carpool so quickly that it never seemed like I had a choice. Probably the same for you.

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Anonymous wrote:THere was a bus providing transportation to the WJ players back to their home school? Do buses usually provide transportation to games for football players?

Signed - mom to a field hockey player who is expected to car-pool to take kids to away field hockey games. Or the kids drive themselves.

Yes. You are 100% right. This is a title IX issue- girls and boys have to be treated equally in sports at school , I.e. equally resourced. When boys have bus transportation and girls do not, that is inequitable. Write an email to the Montgomery County Title IX coordinator and ask him why you are driving your field hockey player to away games but boy’s football is transported by bus. Ask how much is allotted for transportation of female athletes to away games versus male athletes.

BTDT - MCPS will say that the field hockey coach needs to request a bus. If the coach isn’t asking for a bus, MCPS isn’t denying a bus.

It’s strange though that the coaches for female sports or coed teams are not asking for buses like the male teams do. All teams should have transportation provided. Coaches should speak up and ask. If the buses are denied, file a Title IX complaint with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Get an answer from your daughter’s coach via email as to why her team doesn’t have a bus.

Interesting. I have a BCC senior but hadn't seen this note. He didn't go to the football game but was in downtown Bethesda to see a movie with friends from other schools. They reported that after the game, there were kids hanging around downtown and picking fights with random people - my son thought they were probably freshmen because they looked young.

Anonymous wrote:THere was a bus providing transportation to the WJ players back to their home school? Do buses usually provide transportation to games for football players?

Signed - mom to a field hockey player who is expected to car-pool to take kids to away field hockey games. Or the kids drive themselves.

Yes. You are 100% right. This is a title IX issue- girls and boys have to be treated equally in sports at school , I.e. equally resourced. When boys have bus transportation and girls do not, that is inequitable. Write an email to the Montgomery County Title IX coordinator and ask him why you are driving your field hockey player to away games but boy’s football is transported by bus. Ask how much is allotted for transportation of female athletes to away games versus male athletes.

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Anonymous wrote:It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

I agree. Parents need to parent, they are in high school — not in college or adults yet.

What about 18 year olds in HS?

You mean the held back by their parents kids... does it surprise you these kid are acting up.

My thought is that if those parents had been parenting those full 18 years those kids wouldn’t be doing violent, dangerous or disrespectful things at age 18.

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Anonymous wrote:It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

I agree. Parents need to parent, they are in high school — not in college or adults yet.

What about 18 year olds in HS?

You mean the held back by their parents kids... does it surprise you these kid are acting up.

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Anonymous wrote:It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

I agree. Parents need to parent, they are in high school — not in college or adults yet.

What about 18 year olds in HS?

Anonymous wrote:It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

I agree. Parents need to parent, they are in high school — not in college or adults yet.

It just seems like these parents need to keep their children in check. The kids should be charged with vandalism and have to make restitution. Clearly we need more police involved in these high UMC schools. They’re a scourge on our communities. Bad parenting = Bad kids.

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Anonymous wrote:We were eating in downtown Bethesda when the kids came to brawl there too.

Embarrassing for all parents of kids at these schools because many of you will say "oh my kid wasn't involved." Yeah right.

Nearly what, 5000 students between the two schools? Yes, most people's kids weren't involved. Math is hard.

BCC parent checking in! Good job. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it?

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Anonymous wrote:More BCC and WJ, etc parents need to step up and be involved and aware of where their kids are, who they are with, and instill and promote positive values and behaviors. This isn’t the schools’ job when things happened off campus.

Yeah, but how about also promoting a more academic environment and less jock culture in high school? Most of the violence directly stems from this type of sports culture mentality. You never see this happening after a non-sports event.

LoL that's because no one goes to any non sporting events

That's silly, plenty of people go to the drama production, and I've never heard of a post-musical brawl downtown.

The only people who go to the plays are parents and the boyfriends of the actors.

The only people who go to the football games are the slightly smart dummies who derive pleasure from watching other less smart dummies attempt to make inelastic collisions of piles of other dummies. Basically a human demolition derby without the exhaust fumes.

The joke went over your head.

Anonymous wrote:THere was a bus providing transportation to the WJ players back to their home school? Do buses usually provide transportation to games for football players?

Signed - mom to a field hockey player who is expected to car-pool to take kids to away field hockey games. Or the kids drive themselves.

People actually go to the football and soccer games they are alloted money for buses.

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Anonymous wrote:More BCC and WJ, etc parents need to step up and be involved and aware of where their kids are, who they are with, and instill and promote positive values and behaviors. This isn’t the schools’ job when things happened off campus.

I didn't read the article, but both principals sent a joint email talking about BCC students instigating and BCC students vandalizing the school bus. BCC started a riot during a WJ hockey game a few years ago too.

There is something about WJ that BCC kids hate and I honestly don't know what it is.

It's called a rivalry. It's nothing new.

Compare this to the knifing at Blair the other day.

Which is worse and why?

Which do you think makes a school "violent" and why do you think so?