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More than two dozens girls were arrested this past weekend after a brawl broke out at M&T Bank Stadium following a high school football game, and school officials apparently knew that trouble was brewing.Related Topics:
How should school officials deal with students arrested for fighting?
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Examiner Reader said:
i know yall better take these names down before you all suffer a lawsuit and i mean that. learn to spell obviously you are a child so stay in a child's place.
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i know yall better take these names down before you all suffer a lawsuit and i mean that. learn to spell obviously you are a child so stay in a child's place.
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Examiner Reader said:
I believe that this situation could have been avoided if Baltimore City College high school expelled the Prima Donnas last year this time. The thugettes have named themseleves the Prima Donnas and have been terrorizing the school for over a year. Some of the memebers are Shay, Courntey, Janelle, Kneisha, Brandi, Remonda, Sparkle, Brittany, Brittani, Tiara,and Jasmine. These thugettes have been suspended from school on numerous occasions.And they are not making the grades to stay at City. They never fight alone, they gangbang everytime they get into a fight. Their parents are still fighting over men so why shouldn't their daughters. The daughters are not more mature than their mothers. Or are they? The rest of the student body at City-Poly have nothing to be a shamed of.And they should keep the great City-Poly traditions alive.
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Conscious Reader said:
Come on now, the schools can't be responsible for a parents job. They are overburdened enough by parents who send those little monsters to school so they can get a break and get high or watch Springer all day. I pity the teachers and the schools in Baltimore...And all the people that hold them responsible for someone elses child, should be ashamed.
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O'Malley watcher said:
Wanna fight? Send them to the Middle East.
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Examiner Reader said:
How to deal with it? Charge the parents as well...how many stories do we see in the past few years where a child gets in a fight, only to have mom and a bunch of aunts drag the child back and tell them to take care of business. When parents act like knuckleheads, is it any wonder their children do as well?
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Examiner Reader said:
When are city parents, or in most cases guardians, going to take responsibility for the child's actions? Once again they say "its not my fault it's the school's fault" my kid acts like an animal. Come on parent(s) stop blaming everyone else for the actions of your kids. Start making your kids responsible for their actions and start taking responsibilty for your kid's misbehavior. Basically, start being a parent and not a bystander.
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Examiner Reader said:
How should school officials deal with students arrested for fighting? Why, beat the tar out of them, of course!
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Examiner Reader said:
Why are these parents not ashamed of their children's behavior? The parents cannot control their own children, however by blaming the schools, the parents are admitting that they failed at parenting and now expect the schools to correct their mistakes. Do parents think it's possible for the schools to be the surrogate mothers and fathers for their children and hundreds more? Poly and City are premiere Baltimore City Public Schools. There needs to be a strong message to these students (and their parents) who choose disgraceful behavior - expulsion. Oh wait - the CEO and school board are already being bullied by Grasmick, who would love to label City and Poly "persistently dangerous" so she can take away the funding for these schools. According to Grasmick, only "persistently dangerous" schools suspend or expel students. Parents, don't expect the schools to parent your children, they have enough on their plate...and besides IT'S YOUR JOB. It's not too late.
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Examiner Reader said:
charge them as adults
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Examiner Reader said:
Look at the comment of 11:16 a.m. My guess is that she is an A/B+ student. Jeez.
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Examiner Reader said:
First of all as the student said below there are two sides to every story in one breath adults say let someone know and if school officials did know and it wasnt attended to then it is up to the girls to solve thier own problem Everyone can judge but no one is sure to act on their own advice it's no one's fault but the people involved and I can say one thing if adults would be adults and not children children wouldnt be so grown in response for those who reply but dont actually know it takes little for someone who heard about the situation to respond but a lot for those who were involved to react LETS STOP GOING ON SAY SO AND FIND MORE PROOF
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Examiner Reader said:
I am a student who witnessed what happened on nov. 10 2007. I am utterly disburbed by this article that is clearly bais to the girls from City. Not only were the students from city victimized they where placed in a very compromising position. Whom ever the author of this article is failed to report the other side of the story which leads readers to believe that the girls from City were the initiators of the fight. It is not your place to tell a one sided story and in order to cease the dispute all gossip has to end. A concerned reader
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Examiner Reader said:
the parents of the girls arrested should be held responsible first. Why are the parents not mentioned in this, except to place the blame on the school first? This behavior should not be tolerated in any way and the blame all begins at home WITH THE PARENTS!
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Examiner Reader said:
The offending students should be banned from attending extra-curricular activites until they receive some sort of counselling on ways to resolve problems without resorting to violence; if they don't satisfactorily complete the counselling program, they should remain banned.
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Examiner Reader said:
This is so typical, the "parents" of these morons, blame everyone esle for the horrid behavior of their little delinquents.... the behavioral training should start in the homes, whatever that may be...
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reader said:
More should be expected from Poly and City students and the book should be thrown at them.
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Examiner Reader said:
If school officials really did know about this trouble, they've opened themselves up for lawsuits. But we are dealing with Baltimore City students. How do you say G-A-N-G F-I-G-H-T?
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