Don't see any news media coverage yet. Arrests they should be in the blotter

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Several kids outside of Whitman were just arrested for selling several ounces of "coke," per several sources at the school. Developing story...

Here are the facts: From windows, which we were told to move away from, we could see at least 6 police cars and about 2 dozen police officers with what appeared to be at least 6 students, allegedly from Whitman, sitting on the ground in front of a house for sale just across the street from the school a few houses up on a side street.

What circulated within minutes: a photo of the arrests. The Heresay: At least 11 students. Breaking and entering. Using the house on a regular basis since return from Winter break for lunchtime hangout sessions that may have involved controlled or illicit substances that are "harder" than weed.

My take: If true, daytime partying and drug use is not a new issue but the beyond-idiotic use of a for sale house across the street takes it to a new level.Yes, they will likely get off with a slap on the wrist because of the excellent legal representation they can afford.

I was surprised to see nothing online or the news but that might be because they were minors or news was not notified in time. Black and White (school newspaper) journalists told not to cover it. It is laughable that people, likely admin, on the forum are outright dismissing this as "didn't happen," simply because they wish it had not happened. Thank you for the gaslighting. Kristi Noem has job openings for you.

No notice from admin went out. It's "off campus" so evidently they can pretend it did not occur.

This is a violation of students’ First Amendment rights. MCPS is shameless.

Anonymous wrote:Is any of this true?

Yes! It was lunch time- my child saw it happen in real time from the large windows in the new building. Don’t know about Coke/ but definitely 10 plus police cars and saw kids arrested outside the house across the street.

Anonymous wrote:Didnt happen
OP is making stuff to troll

Yes it did.

- Whitman parent

Former Whitman parent until very recently here, the school has had a massive ongoing problem with failure to keep the campus safe, drug dealing and drug use. There are woods behind the school where students go to and from the school throughout the day to deal and use all kinds of drugs. Reports here are accurate about arrests, but the school won't comment because it's off campus, even though they know who leaves and returns throughout the day engaging in drug activity and dealing, and make no effort to stop them. There is also a serious culture now of dealing and trading Chinese peptides, testosterone and other concerning use.

For the last several years and especially since the former principal departed, Whitman has been in steep decline in terms of safety, education, parent communication and basic processes. They don't have school dances anymore for Homecoming because a student was sexually assaulted. Instead of addressing such a serious safety issue, and making the school safe for all students, they just stopped having a dance. In 2022, a coach and teacher was convicted due to SA offenses with minors.

The school has tremendous security problems, with vaping, violent fights and drug us/dealing open and known. Knives, guns and other weapons are brought to school and easily smuggled past the security. Students have reported the security guards are apparently in on it. Sadly, there's also a rotating group of students bused in from Baltimore placed in group homes who have ongoing weapons, opiate and cocaine dealing charges and continue to operate out of the school. Even troubled students have a right to care, support, and educational opportunity, but not without the guardrails and adult oversight to make sure there's even a chance to do so, which harms not just them, but also other students at school they deal to and engage in criminal activities.

I was shocked at the lack of timely, engaged parental communication when issues arose, often only hearing months later, or receiving letters from the current principal that were vague and followed by few changes to actually address the situation. Students easily fall through the cracks there, both because most of the staff is on auto-pilot and it's such a big school and leadership assumes students' families can just pay for expensive tutors or other outside-of-school supports due to the nature of the school district. They also were hit hard by the Maryland educational budget changes, so money now leaves the district and impacted Whitman notably, and the MoCo Board of Education has made many bad decisions since.

Whitman's previous reputation is no longer accurate, and I deeply regret that my child went there. Our family is still dealing with the personal impacts of the school's failure to ensure a safe environment for all students. I hope the school will take seriously that this has been so out of control, for so long, that students felt emboldened to do something so blatant right near the school. I hope this leads to change for the students still there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Several kids outside of Whitman were just arrested for selling several ounces of "coke," per several sources at the school. Developing story...

Here are the facts: From windows, which we were told to move away from, we could see at least 6 police cars and about 2 dozen police officers with what appeared to be at least 6 students, allegedly from Whitman, sitting on the ground in front of a house for sale just across the street from the school a few houses up on a side street.

What circulated within minutes: a photo of the arrests. The Heresay: At least 11 students. Breaking and entering. Using the house on a regular basis since return from Winter break for lunchtime hangout sessions that may have involved controlled or illicit substances that are "harder" than weed.

My take: If true, daytime partying and drug use is not a new issue but the beyond-idiotic use of a for sale house across the street takes it to a new level.Yes, they will likely get off with a slap on the wrist because of the excellent legal representation they can afford.

I was surprised to see nothing online or the news but that might be because they were minors or news was not notified in time. Black and White (school newspaper) journalists told not to cover it. It is laughable that people, likely admin, on the forum are outright dismissing this as "didn't happen," simply because they wish it had not happened. Thank you for the gaslighting. Kristi Noem has job openings for you.

No notice from admin went out. It's "off campus" so evidently they can pretend it did not occur.

This. We have seen this scenario play out many times before when it comes to Whitman and Churchill.

Anonymous wrote:no drugs were found and these kids were not arrested, just got calls home and had to be picked up. i know the parents of one of them, i think they were just caught trespassing the house.

They were arrested. There are pics and videos of kids getting arrested.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no drugs were found and these kids were not arrested, just got calls home and had to be picked up. i know the parents of one of them, i think they were just caught trespassing the house.

They should have been charged.

For what? Treaspassing?

Sure as minors that will be a nothingburger

It’s not trespassing its burglary.
They should have been charged.

Correction: I should not have said the house was for sale. A sign could be seen from 3rd floor windows at Whitman but I did not check after school to see what the sign said. Some posters are saying it said something about slated for demolition, not necessarily a for sale sign.

Anonymous wrote:Several kids outside of Whitman were just arrested for selling several ounces of "coke," per several sources at the school. Developing story...

Here are the facts: From windows, which we were told to move away from, we could see at least 6 police cars and about 2 dozen police officers with what appeared to be at least 6 students, allegedly from Whitman, sitting on the ground in front of a house for sale just across the street from the school a few houses up on a side street.

What circulated within minutes: a photo of the arrests. The Heresay: At least 11 students. Breaking and entering. Using the house on a regular basis since return from Winter break for lunchtime hangout sessions that may have involved controlled or illicit substances that are "harder" than weed.

My take: If true, daytime partying and drug use is not a new issue but the beyond-idiotic use of a for sale house across the street takes it to a new level.Yes, they will likely get off with a slap on the wrist because of the excellent legal representation they can afford.

I was surprised to see nothing online or the news but that might be because they were minors or news was not notified in time. Black and White (school newspaper) journalists told not to cover it. It is laughable that people, likely admin, on the forum are outright dismissing this as "didn't happen," simply because they wish it had not happened. Thank you for the gaslighting. Kristi Noem has job openings for you.

No notice from admin went out. It's "off campus" so evidently they can pretend it did not occur.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At whitman lots of kids do coke and heavy drugs

How do you know this?

+1

Whitman students come from highly educated families. The students are extremely competitive and involved in several activities. Why would they risk their college path with doing drugs? I doubt ‘lots’ of kids do drugs at Whitman.

Every single one of them? Not a single misbehaving kid among the ~2056 students?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At whitman lots of kids do coke and heavy drugs

How do you know this?

+1

Whitman students come from highly educated families. The students are extremely competitive and involved in several activities. Why would they risk their college path with doing drugs? I doubt ‘lots’ of kids do drugs at Whitman.

Anonymous wrote:At whitman lots of kids do coke and heavy drugs

How do you know this?

At whitman lots of kids do coke and heavy drugs

I've seen police bring issues to the school to give consequences for even though what happened was after school hours and off campus and should be handled by police, such as a student breaking into another student's house.

The partnership between mcps and MC police shelters the students from true consequences. I guess it's in the name of protection, but I can't help but think of it as a disservice that doesn't adequately prepare students for what happens after they're no longer in MCPS and break the law. The student and their peers are missing out on learning real life consequences. Not suggesting they should face the most severe consequences, but it should be handled by the police and not the school.

I don't doubt that the police showed up and then just sent there finding to the school when they discovered it was students. I hope I'm wrong though.