<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">correction - this was my post, don't know how Mr. Whitcombs' name and email got attached to it. Sorry)<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR><BR style="RIGHT: auto" class=yui-cursor></SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>(I think my previous email just went to Ms. Sanderson) </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 2px"><SPAN><FONT size=2>I would say first of all do NOT try and break up any fights yourself, let the police handle it. I've seen people elsewhere get seriously hurt when they tried to break up a fight. Too, do you or a friend have a camera with a telephoto lens, maybe you could get some pictures of the offenders and show them to the school and police? (I say telephoto because if the ones who are fighting are also trying to intimidate people, blocking cars, etc., you don't want to get too close with a camera). If they're hanging out around Ponchos, has anyone talked to the owner about it? Is he/she encouraging them to hang around? If not, have the police been called to disperse the loiterers? If any of the offenders ARE caught, I think the parents should be held liable for
their childrens' behavior. I know if MY Mom had been told I was acting like that, I wouldn't have been able to sit down for a week and I would've been grounded for months. You expect kids that age to be a bit crazy (hey, we all were), but when it comes to fighting, trying to 'stare down' people, blocking cars, etc., then I agree, something DOES need to be done. <VAR id=yiv1530879858yui-ie-cursor></VAR> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>I know I have emailed about this before. We have lived across from Hyattsville Middle for 5 years. These children are so out of control and disrespectful at dismissal <SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">each day,</SPAN> it is ridiculous. We have had to call the police and break up fights many times over the last 5 years. I have contacted the school. I have contacted Hyattsville Police. I have sent emails here, hoping that if your children attend Hyattsville Middle, you will talk to them. </DIV>
<DIV>Just yesterday, I called the police because of a fight at the corner of 42nd and Oglethorpe. The police did not arrive quickly enough so another woman and I were yelling at the kids to break it up. Then the police car came and kids started dispersing. The kids gather down at Poncho's, they block the parking lot, they block the door, they have stood in front of my car so I could not move. They cuss at you. They "try" to be intimidating. I, personally, am not intimidated and am very quick to put them in their place. Something needs to be done. Suggestions? I cannot imagine having to send my child there next year.</DIV>
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