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Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

True, but the shelter kids tend to be pretty short term. Whitman can be a challenging environment because many of them are several grade levels behind and even the 9th grade level is a challenge. So they skip classes. The school really tries to work with them but they often end up going back to their families in other parts of the state.

We need to look at reopening Mark Twain for these kids. Plopping them into regular schools is not working.

Clearly we need a school where we can put all the violent kids that don’t belong in regular schools. They can get the attention and discipline they need there, and meanwhile the rest of the kids can get a good education without living in terror.

Why is this so difficult??

Not “fake”. In a group of 2000, these few set themselves apart, banded together, and committed crimes. Continued, escalated. The group had been wreaking havoc for a while - others were scared of them. Details will emerge.

Didn't Whitman just get rid of a security guard for "unknown reasons". Hmmm

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Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

Agreed. It’s terrible, especially since these kids bring much needed diversity.

Horrible. MoCo is irredeemable.

Does anyone know if the kid that was beat up is alright?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

I think the issue here isn't that the students were in-boundary or out-of-boundary students, but that they were previous offenders. MCPS can't expel a student entirely. The students have a right to an education in an MCPS school as long as they are not in jail or prison. If they are in jail or prison, they have programs through that for education I believe. So, when a student is "expelled" from a school, MCPS just puts them into another school, allowing them to continue offending against a new group of victims.

Most of them aren’t from the county. At least when my DC was at Whitman the greentree kids tended to be from Baltimore.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

True, but the shelter kids tend to be pretty short term. Whitman can be a challenging environment because many of them are several grade levels behind and even the 9th grade level is a challenge. So they skip classes. The school really tries to work with them but they often end up going back to their families in other parts of the state.

We need to look at reopening Mark Twain for these kids. Plopping them into regular schools is not working.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

True, but the shelter kids tend to be pretty short term. Whitman can be a challenging environment because many of them are several grade levels behind and even the 9th grade level is a challenge. So they skip classes. The school really tries to work with them but they often end up going back to their families in other parts of the state.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

I think the issue here isn't that the students were in-boundary or out-of-boundary students, but that they were previous offenders. MCPS can't expel a student entirely. The students have a right to an education in an MCPS school as long as they are not in jail or prison. If they are in jail or prison, they have programs through that for education I believe. So, when a student is "expelled" from a school, MCPS just puts them into another school, allowing them to continue offending against a new group of victims.

Outrageous. Outraged.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s see if this happening at a W school gets their attention on curbing violence at schools seriously.

Doubt it, however this clearly looked like an assault. If I were the victim's parents, I would call the cops and press charges. Heck I might even call the local news.

My kid has been jumped at school and he doesn't tell anyone. Many kids don't. Makes them look weak and could make them a continued target.

Further solidifying my view that the majority of American public schools are prisons but without nice landscaping or meaningful educational opportunities.

The school IMHO should be taking responsibility as well. The new Whitman principal recently replaced the head of security, with a different strategy. Previously, the head of security had the place under control. When the prior head of security arrived in 2021-2022 hallway fights and drug dealing and chaos were off the charts- ask any number of the former vice principals and counselors and staff members who left —the freshman class who are current seniors remember the difference- the recent change in security in this month changed the tone in the building alright- where the new principal might not have liked the previous head of security’s approach, I bet he wishes that Shawn Pierce was there today.

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

Whitman parents trying to differentiate between "real" Whitman students and "fake" Whitman students are pathetic. They are all in the same school!

Anonymous wrote:The students who jumped the victim are reportedly students at Whitman. They are not from the area originally. They live together in a state-sponsored program for juvenile offenders in the neighborhood.

That is even more depressing. I hate knowing how doomed so many of our young people are.