Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 12:05     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:Latin parent here. It is indeed an awful situation all around. You can be sure that the administration and leadership of this school are feeling the pain and angst of this decision more than any of the random parents who are criticizing them for being too harsh. If you all feel nauseous about the expulsion imagine how the people who HAD to make that decision feel. It had to have been agonizing to weigh the factors in deciding an appropriate response, keeping in mind the values of the school and the good of the whole community. NO ONE is happy with the outcome but I believe Latin is handling it with as much professionalism, grace and compassion as possible.


I am a Latin parent, and I feel awful for the child who was victimized. I am in the camp of people who think the punishment does not fit the crime. I don't see the compassion for those students, and I'm curious - if Latin was NOT showing compassion for the students that committed this crime, what would it look like? What actions would they have taken beyond expelling them?
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 11:39     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Latin parent here. It is indeed an awful situation all around. You can be sure that the administration and leadership of this school are feeling the pain and angst of this decision more than any of the random parents who are criticizing them for being too harsh. If you all feel nauseous about the expulsion imagine how the people who HAD to make that decision feel. It had to have been agonizing to weigh the factors in deciding an appropriate response, keeping in mind the values of the school and the good of the whole community. NO ONE is happy with the outcome but I believe Latin is handling it with as much professionalism, grace and compassion as possible.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 09:46     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love how the Latin parents rush to support the two expelled students, but for the most part, none have mentioned the VICTIM at all. What do you think the psychological impacts will be on this poor child?


Agree. This confirms the earlier suspicion that the kids were white. Sadly, if they were black, these people would be screaming "off with their heads" and "Muslim lives matter." Even the person right after your comment says, "newspaper says the victim is getting support" like that is supposed to make it okay to defend these thugs. And before anyone condemns me for calling them thugs, you know good and damn well that if they were or are black, you'd all be calling them thugs.


They're not white. They're not thugs. It's sad all around.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 09:41     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:I love how the Latin parents rush to support the two expelled students, but for the most part, none have mentioned the VICTIM at all. What do you think the psychological impacts will be on this poor child?


Agree. This confirms the earlier suspicion that the kids were white. Sadly, if they were black, these people would be screaming "off with their heads" and "Muslim lives matter." Even the person right after your comment says, "newspaper says the victim is getting support" like that is supposed to make it okay to defend these thugs. And before anyone condemns me for calling them thugs, you know good and damn well that if they were or are black, you'd all be calling them thugs.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 09:18     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Much ado about nothing. The two students expelled will end up at another school their GPA will average into the class rankings and with any luck they will graduate in the top percentile. I am pretty sure that the expelled record will not show on the transcript sent to colleges. It's an awful situation and everything that warranted punishment was done. I am more intrigued at the wherewithal of the students to plot, plan and produce an episode like that WL. This is what Lifetime movies are made of.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 09:03     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Maybe it's excusable because they had affluenza?
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 08:40     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a Latin parent who completely supports the school's decision. In this electronic age, this fraudulent threatening email could follow the student victim like a cloud due to his ethnicity, causing serious and lasting scrutiny for the student and their family. The prank email went into cyberspace to more than 500 addresses. The expulsion decision is arguably less harmful to the two students than the potential damaging implications to their victim. It no doubt was an extremely agonizing decision for the school and all involved. One of the school's core values is that "Words Matter"-- this decision, painful as it is, has reinforced that lesson to the entire school community.


I believe it was sent using Latin's internal email system. Emails can't be forwarded outside of Latin from most of those 500 addresses.


My child took a screen shot and forwarded the email to me right after receiving it, informing me that he would not be going to school on Friday. I saw the name of the kid whose account it was sent from. How many people have copies of the email? Likely many more than those it was sent to. My kid believed at the moment he received it that it was a credible threat and was frightened. I feel badly for all three of the kids involved, but cannot fault the school for how the matter has been handled.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 08:34     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
The way many people on this thread are contorting themselves to minimize what these kids did is disgusting.

This gives me the impression is that these "nice kids" are entitled little a-holes who are used to people excusing their bad behavior. I hope this takes them down a peg.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 08:26     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am a Latin parent who completely supports the school's decision. In this electronic age, this fraudulent threatening email could follow the student victim like a cloud due to his ethnicity, causing serious and lasting scrutiny for the student and their family. The prank email went into cyberspace to more than 500 addresses. The expulsion decision is arguably less harmful to the two students than the potential damaging implications to their victim. It no doubt was an extremely agonizing decision for the school and all involved. One of the school's core values is that "Words Matter"-- this decision, painful as it is, has reinforced that lesson to the entire school community.


I believe it was sent using Latin's internal email system. Emails can't be forwarded outside of Latin from most of those 500 addresses.


Kids use screenshots to capture that which can not be saved or forwarded.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 07:38     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:I am a Latin parent who completely supports the school's decision. In this electronic age, this fraudulent threatening email could follow the student victim like a cloud due to his ethnicity, causing serious and lasting scrutiny for the student and their family. The prank email went into cyberspace to more than 500 addresses. The expulsion decision is arguably less harmful to the two students than the potential damaging implications to their victim. It no doubt was an extremely agonizing decision for the school and all involved. One of the school's core values is that "Words Matter"-- this decision, painful as it is, has reinforced that lesson to the entire school community.


I believe it was sent using Latin's internal email system. Emails can't be forwarded outside of Latin from most of those 500 addresses.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 07:31     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
I am a Latin parent who completely supports the school's decision. In this electronic age, this fraudulent threatening email could follow the student victim like a cloud due to his ethnicity, causing serious and lasting scrutiny for the student and their family. The prank email went into cyberspace to more than 500 addresses. The expulsion decision is arguably less harmful to the two students than the potential damaging implications to their victim. It no doubt was an extremely agonizing decision for the school and all involved. One of the school's core values is that "Words Matter"-- this decision, painful as it is, has reinforced that lesson to the entire school community.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 07:19     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:I love how the Latin parents rush to support the two expelled students, but for the most part, none have mentioned the VICTIM at all. What do you think the psychological impacts will be on this poor child?

The article says the student is fine and has received lots of support from fellow students. (Not a Latin parent, BTW.)
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2016 02:59     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
I love how the Latin parents rush to support the two expelled students, but for the most part, none have mentioned the VICTIM at all. What do you think the psychological impacts will be on this poor child?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2016 23:23     Subject: Re:Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
so = say
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2016 23:23     Subject: Hoax Bomb Threat at Washington Latin
Anonymous wrote:Nothing in the article suggest that the perps knew the victim was Muslim. That is an essential element of a hate crime, no?


Of course they knew whose account it was.
The only valid excuse I can find is that Trump could so something like this and still not get expelled from the presidential race. Thought that still doesn't make it right, nor excusable.