The mom probably had her head in the sand about all this. Completely disengaged whether by necessity or choice. This is the consequence.

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Anonymous wrote:The dedicated IEP speaks volumes about his issues, which are much more than LD and language.

Dedicated IEP aide

That is near impossible to get for most kids.

Where in Bethesda is this hood?

If my son got his head kicked in and robbed and I had to listen to the assailants mother call him a good little sweetie who was just looking for validation I would implode.

If this kid had issues severe enough to warrant a dedicated iep aid, why was he in regular school? The qo fight was special needs. The murdered boy jailan was special needs. The bus driver who SA'ed that special need girl.. What the hell is going on with /to special needs kids in mcps???

Anonymous wrote:The dedicated IEP speaks volumes about his issues, which are much more than LD and language.

Dedicated IEP aide

The dedicated IEP speaks volumes about his issues, which are much more than LD and language.

Anonymous wrote:Having now read the article let me just say : what a crock of sh÷t.

She spun that from what we all know- this kid has a Twitter account fascinated with violence and robbery from years ago and he has a gun that looks like a 9mm which mommy angel didn't know about in their small apartment ? Either she did know or she's a negligent parent. I go through my kids stuff regularly. Of he really has a learning disability he wouldn't be savvy enough to hide a "gun" in an apartment.
And this bs about him just being down town and trying to fit innwhen he saw trouble breaking out is some Kyle Rittenhouse level of deception. My kids try to fit in too. They don't beinf "guns" to down town Bethesda to try to fit in!!

And they moved from white oak to get away from the problems?

Bish, you are the problem.

The twitter account gets me, as a parent. It wasn't a hidden account. It has his name on it. How did mom not see it? I check my kids social media pretty often. If I saw the violence fascinating the account would have been deleted and he would be in therapy. None of what we know as fact jibes with the sweet innocent routine she's giving in court.

Having now read the article let me just say : what a crock of sh÷t.

She spun that from what we all know- this kid has a Twitter account fascinated with violence and robbery from years ago and he has a gun that looks like a 9mm which mommy angel didn't know about in their small apartment ? Either she did know or she's a negligent parent. I go through my kids stuff regularly. Of he really has a learning disability he wouldn't be savvy enough to hide a "gun" in an apartment.
And this bs about him just being down town and trying to fit innwhen he saw trouble breaking out is some Kyle Rittenhouse level of deception. My kids try to fit in too. They don't beinf "guns" to down town Bethesda to try to fit in!!

And they moved from white oak to get away from the problems?

Bish, you are the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that the biggest global issue is that the law protects violent minors.

Just look at all of the posts about elementary school kids subjected to violence in their classrooms (chair throwing, desk throwing, hitting, kicking, and evacuating for violent meltdowns). Kids can’t be removed without boatloads of documentation. Should the teacher teach or document all day? Even then it takes months.

The violator’s rights are protected. Those subjected to the violence are not protected.

Young kids grow into powerful adolescents and adults who continue to suffer no consequences for their behavior and just stay in the system right next to your child.

Laws need to change to protect students and teachers from violent minors not vice versa.

Boom. Way back in elementary school, you could spot the problem kids…most of whom just became bigger problems.

How?

What % were actually problem toddlers that became problem teens/adults?

it’s not the toddlers with undiagnosed autism/adhd throwing chairs who grow up to have fun beating up other kids with their friends. this kind of conduct (violence for fun) is a feature of sociopathy created by extreme family stress and generational child abuse.

Well, the mother of the arrested kid just told WaPo exactly that - that her little angel does have adhd and other 'special needs' that prevented him from expressing himself properly. So there's that.
And I'm sure he threw plenty of chairs back in elementary school.

This has nothing to do with diagnosis as plenty of kids have those diagnosis and don't behave like this. Given she KNEW his behavior issues and allowed this to happen by not supervising him, she should also be held accountable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that the biggest global issue is that the law protects violent minors.

Just look at all of the posts about elementary school kids subjected to violence in their classrooms (chair throwing, desk throwing, hitting, kicking, and evacuating for violent meltdowns). Kids can’t be removed without boatloads of documentation. Should the teacher teach or document all day? Even then it takes months.

The violator’s rights are protected. Those subjected to the violence are not protected.

Young kids grow into powerful adolescents and adults who continue to suffer no consequences for their behavior and just stay in the system right next to your child.

Laws need to change to protect students and teachers from violent minors not vice versa.

the kids throwing chairs in K are NOT the kids getting together with their friends in HS to have fun beating up people for lulz and likes. there’s a difference between little kids who need more SPED support and kids who are just plain violent and nasty.

Well, pp you spoke too soon. Have you read the Post article that includes a quote from the 16 year old’s mother acknowledging that he has LDs?

Where's the wapo article?

Behind a pay wall

It was an airsoft gun he bought without her permission.

“My son is a follower. He’s a good kid, but he’s a follower. He is socially awkward and was looking to get validation,” Johnson said, sighing deeply at how he apparently chose to do so. Johnson said she hoped her son’s case would be moved to the juvenile system, which is highly likely given his age. Johnson said that if accusations against her son are proven, and it comes to pass that a judge thinks he should be held in a juvenile detention facility for a few months, she’d accept that.
“He needs to learn his lesson,” she said.
Johnson, a commuter bus driver, said her son has long been diagnosed with a learning disorder and gets an IEP aide at school to help him. He can have trouble speaking — owing in part to a lack of confidence, Johnson said — and doesn’t always complete what he is trying to say.

In court on Friday, the teen addressed the judge politely. “Yes, ma’am,” he said to several questions. When Bills asked him if he wanted to say anything about his bond, he hesitated over several words before saying briefly: “Actually, I honestly don’t know. I really don’t know.”
He is generally sweet and respectful, Johnson said, and has no criminal record or history of violence. Johnson said she formerly lived in the White Oak area of Montgomery County. She moved to Bethesda — and a high-rise apartment on Wisconsin Avenue — to get her children into better schools.
“I tell him and his sister every single day to be respectful and to always the right thing — every single day,” she said.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that the biggest global issue is that the law protects violent minors.

Just look at all of the posts about elementary school kids subjected to violence in their classrooms (chair throwing, desk throwing, hitting, kicking, and evacuating for violent meltdowns). Kids can’t be removed without boatloads of documentation. Should the teacher teach or document all day? Even then it takes months.

The violator’s rights are protected. Those subjected to the violence are not protected.

Young kids grow into powerful adolescents and adults who continue to suffer no consequences for their behavior and just stay in the system right next to your child.

Laws need to change to protect students and teachers from violent minors not vice versa.

Boom. Way back in elementary school, you could spot the problem kids…most of whom just became bigger problems.

How?

What % were actually problem toddlers that became problem teens/adults?

it’s not the toddlers with undiagnosed autism/adhd throwing chairs who grow up to have fun beating up other kids with their friends. this kind of conduct (violence for fun) is a feature of sociopathy created by extreme family stress and generational child abuse.

Well, the mother of the arrested kid just told WaPo exactly that - that her little angel does have adhd and other 'special needs' that prevented him from expressing himself properly. So there's that.
And I'm sure he threw plenty of chairs back in elementary school.

You’ve had 7 too many Cabernets.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that the biggest global issue is that the law protects violent minors.

Just look at all of the posts about elementary school kids subjected to violence in their classrooms (chair throwing, desk throwing, hitting, kicking, and evacuating for violent meltdowns). Kids can’t be removed without boatloads of documentation. Should the teacher teach or document all day? Even then it takes months.

The violator’s rights are protected. Those subjected to the violence are not protected.

Young kids grow into powerful adolescents and adults who continue to suffer no consequences for their behavior and just stay in the system right next to your child.

Laws need to change to protect students and teachers from violent minors not vice versa.

Boom. Way back in elementary school, you could spot the problem kids…most of whom just became bigger problems.

How?

What % were actually problem toddlers that became problem teens/adults?

it’s not the toddlers with undiagnosed autism/adhd throwing chairs who grow up to have fun beating up other kids with their friends. this kind of conduct (violence for fun) is a feature of sociopathy created by extreme family stress and generational child abuse.

Well, the mother of the arrested kid just told WaPo exactly that - that her little angel does have adhd and other 'special needs' that prevented him from expressing himself properly. So there's that.
And I'm sure he threw plenty of chairs back in elementary school.

Finally we can expel all the special needs kids

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that the biggest global issue is that the law protects violent minors.

Just look at all of the posts about elementary school kids subjected to violence in their classrooms (chair throwing, desk throwing, hitting, kicking, and evacuating for violent meltdowns). Kids can’t be removed without boatloads of documentation. Should the teacher teach or document all day? Even then it takes months.

The violator’s rights are protected. Those subjected to the violence are not protected.

Young kids grow into powerful adolescents and adults who continue to suffer no consequences for their behavior and just stay in the system right next to your child.

Laws need to change to protect students and teachers from violent minors not vice versa.

Boom. Way back in elementary school, you could spot the problem kids…most of whom just became bigger problems.

How?

What % were actually problem toddlers that became problem teens/adults?

it’s not the toddlers with undiagnosed autism/adhd throwing chairs who grow up to have fun beating up other kids with their friends. this kind of conduct (violence for fun) is a feature of sociopathy created by extreme family stress and generational child abuse.

Well, the mother of the arrested kid just told WaPo exactly that - that her little angel does have adhd and other 'special needs' that prevented him from expressing himself properly. So there's that.
And I'm sure he threw plenty of chairs back in elementary school.

You're welcome.

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