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BWHS email

Discussion in 'Broadlands Community Issues' started by backtothewoooo, Oct 6, 2008.

  1. MamaBear

    MamaBear New Member

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    Isn't making a threat against a school a felony? I don't see him going back to school.
     
  2. latka

    latka Active Member

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    3rd party accusations of spoken threats will be very hard to prove.
     
  3. diana5869

    diana5869 Member

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    As a staff member at BWHS, I can assure you that everything was handled appropriately, and the person making the threats, who had already been suspended but was found on school grounds, was arrested before the school day even started. The "rumor" of violence was a rumor that several students with cell phones - and don't even get me started about kids and their cell phones at school - but the rumor sent around by text was that a student had been shot in the hallway. That is the "rumor" that Mr. Byers was referring to. Obviously there was no one shot, and no weapons were found on the suspect. He was not negating that there was threatened violence, just that no one had been injured, and that no weapons were on school grounds.
     
  4. napper

    napper New Member

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    Wow! Now I can understand the message regarding the "rumor". If that rumor had spread and been heard by the parents, you can bet there would have been a panic. I want to thank the staff for handling it well (even though some of us parents, me included, didn't understand the situation in full). Thank you for setting us straight.
     
  5. MLB20148

    MLB20148 New Member

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    Here is the quote from the Loudoun Alerts yesterday

    Loudoun County, Virginia- A Briar Woods High School student was charged Monday after he allegedly made threats against the school.

    Daeshawn T. McDonald, 18, of Ashburn, is charged with threats to a school employer, disorderly conduct and trespassing. He is currently being held at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center on a $2500 secured bond.

    On Sunday evening the Loudoun Sheriff’s Office received third party information regarding possible verbal threats against the high school. At this time the Sheriff’s Office School Resource Officers were notified of the alleged statements. A student was later identified as allegedly making the statements. He was taken into custody Monday as he was being dropped off at school.
     
  6. mjbenteler

    mjbenteler mom2three

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    Diane5869, thanks for letting us know about the rumor. No one i talked with heard a rumor about anyone being shot. We knew something happened, didn't know if the student had a gun and decided since we had no info, it was better to not have our kids there. The email and the phone call were misleading. Made it sound as if nothing was going on, which was clearly not the case.
     
  7. Kaosdad

    Kaosdad Will work for Rum

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    Thanks Diane! How about the next time the School needs to get out "The Word" - you do it?! :D Your post in the e-mail yesterday would have put many minds to ease.
     
  8. chattycat

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    Bajeeezus, folks. If they didn't call, you would have complained. If they do call, you complain. This immediate satisfaction (that involves human interaction and split second decisions on so many levels) you are requiring from the staff at the school is virtually, humanly impossible. Safety procedures are a work in progress. This instant gratification generation is needing to take a deep breath. You are only perpetuating your children's fears...let them think for themselves before they hit that text button to call mommy and daddy to think for them.
     
  9. Skins fan

    Skins fan Tequila fan (100% agave)

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    Nobody is complaining because they called. Its was their failure to communicate clearly what the situation was. Clear communication from our schools regarding possible threats is an absolute necessity. What the heck do you mean, a work in progress? If safety is a work in progress, then they have no business administering a school. A coherent explanation is certainly humanly possible.

    We all know that these types of threats can be very real with deadly consequences. The explanation from diana5869 was quite clear and if they had explained it clearly as she did, it would not have been a problem.

     
  10. MLB20148

    MLB20148 New Member

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    I think the communication process is great, but the message could have worded better! They could have brought closure indicating that the person was met by the police when they arrived on campus and was taken into custody.

    :pofl:
     
  11. chattycat

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    Skinsfan: What I meant by a work in progress is that there are certain steps that need to be taken instead of having a kneejerk reaction and causing panic. I agree the communication could have been clearer, and Diana did ultimately clarify what happened. But, she also had 24 hours in which to gather, summarize and distribute the facts. I believe their intentions were good.
     
  12. ConcreteRE

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    But he is a criminal. Also a thug. Drugs, fights, and no parental guidance. And hopefully he is not going to be back at BWHS.
     
  13. latka

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    Maybe his parents and you should monitor his facebook account. You might learn something about him. As a responisble parent, I monitor my daughters, that's how I know about this kid.
     
  14. latka

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    He has made some extremely degrading and offensive remarks about one of the girls you coach. He also made threats against people on her wall. He also struck the car of a parent with an umbrella last year at a football game when this parent was in the car, just for the fun of it. That is a criminal act. He is a thug.
     
  15. ConcreteRE

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    Ok. Fair enough. I only know what I have witnessed in public places, see on public forums, and hear from other parents about their discussions with his parents. I want this kid to get help. Believe me. And your right, in Asburn a thug is someone who lights firecrackers and smashes pumpkins. We don't want to see anything worse here in Ashburn. So your right, I don't know what a real thug is. Thug may be the wrong word.
     
  16. mjbenteler

    mjbenteler mom2three

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    This thread started as a concern over the communitcation with BWHS regarding this "incident". It now has become a bunch of adults slamming a kid and his parents. I am all for a heated discussion, i think people disagreeing is healthy. but to pass judgement over a kid and his parents is a little much! my parents have 4 kids, three of us were law abiding citizens, one not so much in his teens and early 20"s. (he turned it around and is now dean of students at a HS in PA) but my mom raised us all the same, was it her fault one kid didn't listen? no, it's not the parents unless they are burying there heads in the sand. don't you think his parents have enough going on, but now have to hear that people are judging them? think this is helping the kid who got in trouble? as jharris said, we have no facts, just hear say from our high school drama queens and kings.
    I am by no means excusing this boy for his actions, but do we need to bash him and his parents? the courts will decide what to do. (think how would you feel if this was your kid? wouldnt you be sick in your stomach over all this? how would your other kids feel knowing everyone was saying things about there sibling?)
     
  17. latka

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    I would absolutely be sick if this was my kid. I don't judge his parents at all. All I have said about him are things I have either seen myself( the incident at the football game) or things this kid has posted for all the world to see on the internet. Unfortunately he has directed his behavior at a girl my family is close with.
     
  18. redon1

    redon1 aka Aphioni

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    i am one of six kids. if my parents were judged by our actions they would be praised and given an award for one of my brother's achievements and contribution to our nation's security, and run out of town and jailed for the behavior of other siblings 1-3 years his junior, and praised again for the actions of yet another sib 1 year his senior.

    when we're talking about 10 year olds, of course parents have culpability- but even then, no complete control over how a kid chooses to act- and this kid is 18 so even LEGALLY they aren't responsible.

    it's a ridiculous and unfair argument to blame parents for the behavior of an 18 year old. they could have given all the love, support, discipline and help he needed and he could STILL choose to do the wrong thing. there are plenty of abused, neglected kids who become positive role models.

    :( i look forward to a positive thing happening in ths community soon since we all pull together for each other in hard times, and i hope it's posted here. between this, the hospital and the election, non residents lurking in here must think this is a divisive, mean spirited, divided place to live.

    :(
     
  19. Brassy

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    I will add one thing about the "N" word at the battle of the bands...it was also being said by the kids who usually get called it. And the thing about the 2nd period of school. Well the kids didn't know he'd already been picked up as they kept seeing deputies in school looking all over for him. The belief on the students at BHWS part is that there was no communication via the deputies who'd picked up the kid afte he was dropped off at school, and the ones looking around the school during the day. The other things that chafe the student is the lack of a true repsonse form the school leaders. They wanted to leave school as they thought the situation was still bad. So the "no truth to the rumor" didn't seem to be the way to handle it. Better to say that the school had an issue and it had been taken care of. Either way parents woudl be worried, but truth ahead of time, wouldn't have made this into such a big pile.
     
  20. redon1

    redon1 aka Aphioni

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    CONTEXT Brassy. it's the same as the difference between your best friend calling you a bi(#* playfully because you just got a hot new coach purse, and a total stranger calling you the same name becasue you cut them off in traffic.

    i don't agree with anyone using the word- i don't consider it an endearing term and we don't use it in my family. but like it or not, hip hop culture stupidly embraced and glorified for use among and between blacks, and it is STILL not acceptable for anyone else to use it in a degrading and negative way. something tells me it wasn't used by a non-black person as a term of endearment. come on.
     

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