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Anonymous wrote:NoAr is my little Haven away from DC, so it saddens me to hear about events like this so close to my home. Worried about this...

I've always been a firm believer that the less diversity a school has the more stuff like this happens. I see it at my nephew's schools out in PW county. They have many instances like the one in this thread.

When you are constantly around kids of all different SES, racial, social backgrounds there is naturally more tolerance and acceptance of those differences. We actively looked for 'good' public schools with at least 20-30% or so diversity. You can find these schools in Arlington---even N. Arlington. My kids have good friends from all kinds of backgrounds. There are many International families. Some FARMS, some rich, some where English isn't a first language. The kids are so much more tolerant. In fact, it's not so much tolerant as they just expect it as normal. They don't even question or think about that so and so's parents don't speak English or they don't live in a house or they don't celebrate Christmas. Yes- you can teach your kids this stuff, but living and being friends with other kids like this is much different. My sticking point when looking at neighborhood schools was I didn't want them surrounded by all rich kids. Mo' $, mo' problems.

Anonymous wrote:Hope the kid that experienced the hate crime has a secure copy of that video. He's out-numbered, out-$''d and out-powered. Loud-mouth dad will surely lawyer-up. In fact 10-1, he is a lawyer himself.

Anonymous wrote:NoAr is my little Haven away from DC, so it saddens me to hear about events like this so close to my home. Worried about this...

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington.

Ummm...the only provocateur came from your own school. Nobody at WL would have even known about it without this thread and subsequent arlnow article.

It's amazing there is still zero ability to accept any blame or look at oneself. And they wonder why their kids end up like this...seeing dad yelling racial slurs at kids.

Please try a little harder not to sound so outrageously stupid. I don't recall Yorktown parents rushing to generalize about the culture at W-L just because some W-L students were fighting with each other after a football game this fall.

The parents weren't fighting with the kids.

I grew up in Fairfax County. Fights were common. Parents were never in them with the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington.

Ummm...the only provocateur came from your own school. Nobody at WL would have even known about it without this thread and subsequent arlnow article.

It's amazing there is still zero ability to accept any blame or look at oneself. And they wonder why their kids end up like this...seeing dad yelling racial slurs at kids.

Please try a little harder not to sound so outrageously stupid. I don't recall Yorktown parents rushing to generalize about the culture at W-L just because some W-L students were fighting with each other after a football game this fall.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington.

Ummm...the only provocateur came from your own school. Nobody at WL would have even known about it without this thread and subsequent arlnow article.

It's amazing there is still zero ability to accept any blame or look at oneself. And they wonder why their kids end up like this...seeing dad yelling racial slurs at kids.

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Anonymous wrote:So parents at YHS feel now free to spout off racial insults to students, and the excuse given is that it is somewhat acceptable because it was an ongoing feud?

Get a grip, PP.

Exactly. First, it was denial, denial, denial.

Now--that there is a report...that even mentions racial slurs they lash out at everyone else again.

If shit like this happened at my kid's school I'd want answers and I sure as hell wouldn't be circling the wagons and trying to cover-up.

The "report' is an arlnow story on this thread that you and I are currently posting in.

Mmm, now, it is a police report. So, yes, sorry to tell you, but it looks like it did happen.


https://www.arlnow.com/2016/11/29/police-fight-at-yorktown-involved-parents-accusation-of-racial-slurs/

Anonymous wrote:I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington.

Anonymous wrote:I'm really pleased to see the term "North North Arlington" used on ARLNow to describe Yorktown territory. That way the W-L provacateurs can distinguish themselves from the NoNA residents without losing their ability to remind people they live in North Arlington.

Anonymous wrote:I don't have the video. My daughter saw it on another kid's phone. This is what she reported to me and I'm wondering if any other parents heard about this from a first hand witness because this is all second hand information. Apparently this was outside during lunch -- the kids go out to buy lunch from the food trucks.

And yes, the story I heard is that a dad of a ninth grader got in a fight with the high school student and called yelled a racial slur at him.