Equally Disgusted Wrote:
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> gatehouse2? enough said Wrote:
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> > I want to know who pays for vandalism and
> > negligence. Racial insults [?] and over $3000
> by
> > Langley students at a game at Mclean. Any
> caught
> > on tape?
> >
> >
>
http://mclean.patch.com/articles/cost-of-vandalism
>
> > -damage-at-mclean-high-by-langley-students
>
> Here's part of an article from the Langley
> newspaper about the incident:
>
> "In a school-wide address on Monday morning,
> Principal Matt Ragone expressed his disappointment
> at Langley’s behavior, saying that he
> “expected better,” and that “Langley should
> be THE model school for good and positive behavior
> just as we are the model academically and on the
> playing field.”
>
> Mr. Ragone later addressed the abuse inflicted on
> the McLean step team, saying, “Their step team
> gets mocked by a lot of schools, not just Langley.
> Those girls are really courageous to get out there
> in front of everybody, just to be made fun of.
> told me that the step team coaches have to
> persuade them every game to keep going.”
>
> Amazing the Langley principal is such a wimp.
> Maybe that's what the Langley parents expect: a
> principal who praises their kids even when they
> vandalize another school and tries to rationalize
> verbal insults by saying "everybody does it."
>
> Was any discipline imposed? I know it's not
> something horrible, like bringing acne medecine to
> school, but you wonder if the "punishment" was
> just bringing checks from Mom and Dad to Ragone's
> office.
But wait...after reading so many of the posts in FU about how bad the discipline policy is in FCPS, I thought that all these kids were angels! Hmmmmmm..guess not! Maybe FCPS knows something we don't huh?