Fox 5: High School Beatdown Posted on facebook

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Kennedy High School Community Meeting Tonight

Victim of High School Attack, Mother React to Arrests|ABC 7 News

Victim of High School Attack, Mother React to Arrests|ABC 7 News


UPDTATE: WTOP Principal to meet with parents over school attack

Maupin's mom says the emphasis should not be on punishment, but the larger question of why kids resort to this kind of violence and then post it to the Web as entertainment.
Maupin says the right question to ask is, "What can we do as a community...as a community, not just for my daughter, but for all young children?"

ABC 7 News - Caught on Tape: Kennedy High School Attack

Update: 9/30/09 11 PM Community Meeting to be held Thursday Oct. 1st


Update 9/30/09 6:19 PM: ABC 7 News High School Attackers to Face Charges

Apparently, Superintendent Jerry Weast can't be bothered with school violence issues, or is he not in town? According to ABC 7 News:

Meanwhile, the school system told ABC 7 News the incident is not the type to require the superintendent's attention.

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ABC 7 News Exclusive: A brutal attack caught on tape has become a Facebook sensation at a local high school. But the victim wants to know why she was targeted and claims the school is doing nothing to protect her.

Kennedy Principal says it "is impossible for him to view the Facebook video" and he declined ABC 7's offer to show it to him.

ABC 7's reporter said they are "waiting for a response" from Superintendent Jerry Weast to their offer to show him the video.



Update 9/30/07 3:30 PM: WTOP - Student attacked during school football game

...Two of the girls involved have been charged - as juveniles - with second degree assault.
The two girls -- a 16-year-old who attends Kennedy and an 18-year-old who attends Montgomery Blair High school -- are sisters, Channel 7 reports...

...The principal has called for a community meeting.
In the past decade, there have been two murders on Montgomery County school property. Both were in school parking lots and both took place after football games...

80 year old banned from MCPS school

The Gazette reports on an 80 year old neighbor that has been banned from stepping foot on the grounds of Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. Apparently, Boardmember O'Neill's exclusion of PIA parents extends to neighbors as well.

...In March, fed up with students leaving litter in her English Orchard Court neighborhood in Silver Spring, Cook carried a bag of the garbage into the high school and unceremoniously dumped it in the lobby. She believed she was returning the contents to their their rightful owners.

Her neighborhood is used as a shortcut by students going to and from fast-food restaurants for lunch and between after-school activities.

"This had been a long-term problem for the past year," said Cook, who headed up the local homeowners association until July when her term expired. "I could never get anyone to respond to me."

...After the March incidents, the principal, Thomas Anderson, had a "no trespassing" order issued against Cook, which prevented her from serving as an election judge at the school during a special election. Cook had been an election judge for the past 20 years...

UPDATE: Gazette Editorial August 5, 2009:

...Cook's unconventional approach should teach the administrators and students at the high school a thing or two about being responsible neighbors...