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  • Middle Schoolers Stop Maryland Man From Kidnapping Their Classmate

    Middle Schoolers Stop Maryland Man From Kidnapping Their Classmate


    A Maryland man is now in police custody after a group of middle school students heroically saved their classmate from an attempted kidnapping, Law And Crime reported.

    On Monday, students were waiting at a school bus stop in Gaithersburg, Maryland when they saw a man grab one of their classmates and try to pull them to a nearby apartment building. Several of them immediately began intervening, yelling and refusing to let go of their classmate until the man fled.

    After the students arrived to their school and reported the incident to staff, 30-year-old Jamaal Germany was located and arrested. He’s now facing charges of attempted kidnapping, and is being held at the Montgomery County Detention Center awaiting his arraignment.

    According to one of the children’s parents, Germany had been there a week beforehand, making threats to both children and adults. “It’s totally disturbing,” a neighbor commented. “You don’t expect to hear things like that happening, in general, so close to home. We know things happen in the world. It’s very unsettling when it happens close to your community.”

    In a letter to parents, the Montgomery County Public Schools explained what had occurred, the arrest that followed, and what the next steps were to ensure that similar incidents would be prevented. “There will continue to be an increased security presence by both MCPS and MCPD today and tomorrow at the impacted bus stop,” it stated.

  • Parents Outraged After Texas Middle School Students Were Asked To Role-Play as ‘Seducing Hooker’ in ‘Team Building’ Classroom Game

    Parents Outraged After Texas Middle School Students Were Asked To Role-Play as ‘Seducing Hooker’ in ‘Team Building’ Classroom Game

    A Texas mom is outraged after her daughter was allegedly asked by her teacher to participate in a

    “team building”

    game that required her to act like a

    “seducing hooker,”

    NY Post reported. 

    Laura Maria Gruber said her daughter, who attended KIPP Poder academy a charter school in Texas, came home with the disturbing news.

    “I picked my daughter and her best friend up from school and my daughter said ‘We played this game at school, Mom, and you’re going to be upset’…When she told me about kids getting up in class and posing as hookers, I almost crashed the car,”

    Gruber told The Post. 

    The game,

    “Bear-Hooker-Hunter”

    is apparently an adult drinking game version of rock-paper-scissors and was reportedly played as a

    “team building”

    exercise. The seventh grade Social Emotional Learning class allegedly had the students stand in front of the classroom and pretend to be a hunter, pointing an imaginary gun, a scary bear with its paws up, or a

    “seducing hooker,”

    reports reveal. 

    Gruber said her daughter opted out of playing the game but other students were allegedly bribed with candy for them to join in, the daughter told her mom. Gruber, angered by the incident, pulled her daughter out of the school and demanded answers from administrators.

    “I wanted my child to go to this school for the diversity and trusted them. But I didn’t realize it would involve sexual diversity and kids being sexualized.” 

    School Principal Stephanie Lee admitted that the game was instructed but denied that it had anything to do with sexualizing children.

    “This game was not part of any KIPP curriculum, and it was not appropriate for students,”

    she wrote.

    “Any activities with actions or words like ‘hooker’ or ‘seduce’ should never have a place in our schools. While the intent was never to sexualize a child, I recognize that the impact may have caused students to feel uncomfortable or traumatized. That does not honor the respect we aim to teach our students at all times; in truth, it is degrading.”

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Art Teacher Arrested After Overdosing On Fentanyl In Front Of Students

    Art Teacher Arrested After Overdosing On Fentanyl In Front Of Students

    A New Jersey middle school teacher was arrested after overdosing on fentanyl in front of students, police said per the New York Post. 

    Frank Thompson, a 57-year-old art teacher at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, New Jersey was found passed out in a second-floor classroom around 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2022, according to the Westfield Police Department per the Post. 

    Police say students recognized signs of

    “distress”

    from Thompson and discovered the 57-year-old being treated by school nurses when they arrived. A responding officer immediately noticed that Thompson was suffering from an overdose of drugs and injected him with

    “naloxone hydrochloride, or Narcan,“

    cops told the outlet.

    Thompson began to exhibit signs of improvement, according to police. After an investigation police say they found fentanyl and paraphernalia in the classroom closet.

    The school district sent a letter out to parents which notified them of the incident and that classrooms were,

    “sealed off and then sanitized,”

    Fox 5 reported. 

    Thompson was charged on Thursday with,

    “possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, endangering the welfare of children, and a disorderly person offense,”

    police said.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?