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    Student Allegedly Threatens to Shoot Thots At School With a Musket

    With a musket?? Something seems fishy with this story.. even regular people are wondering out loud in the comments why PODER is involved with this.



    https://www.independent.com/news/2018/jan/31/female-high-school-students-threatened/


    Female Students Threatened at San Marcos High School


    Parents and Students Demand More Information

    Wednesday, January 31, 2018


    by KEITH HAMM


    Parents and students are demanding more information in the ongoing investigation of a handful of male students at San Marcos High School connected to private video and chat-room threats against female students in January. According to a statement released by PODER S.B.(People Organizing for the Defense and Equal Rights of Santa Barbara youth), a social justice group protesting Santa Barbara Unified School District’s reluctance to provide more detail about the case, one of the four suspected teenagers appears in an instructional video on how to load a musket and shoot “a thot,” a derogatory term. “And he’s wishing luck to others who wanted to kill people in that way,” said PODER’s Candice Perez, who said she saw the video. Also, a private chat room featured a “list of thots that need to be eradicated,” she said. The list included “at least 16” students from San Marcos and Santa Barbara high schools, “mostly female,” she added. “Students and parents feel they haven’t gotten enough information. [We want to] send a clear message to the district that they need to be transparent.”

    Bound by federal law, the district “can’t speak to any disciplinary action,” said Lauren Bianchi Klemann, the district’s public information officer. “And that’s been a big issue with parents.” She stressed that law enforcement had determined “there was no immediate threat to students or to staff, and it’s an ongoing investigation.”

    “Parents of students named in the chat room were immediately contacted by the school administration to communicate actions taken in conjunction with the Sheriff’s Office,” according to a statement from the district. “[We take] seriously any derogatory or threatening statements to students. Student perpetrators are being disciplined under the authority of the California Education Code and Board of Education Policy.”

    Superintendent Cary Matsuoka has issued an apology to the students and parents of San Marcos, Santa Barbara, and Dos Pueblos high schools, and La Colina Junior High. He has called a town hall meeting for 7 p.m. on February 5 at San Marcos.

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    What is a thot ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    What is a thot ?
    Thot stands for "that ho over there"

    It is typically used to describe a female who engages in sex with multiple males and uses her good looks as a source of power to manipulate men. They are seen as being in training to get married to a high status male have kids and then get divorced and take half his stuff.

    It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Its Fedbook for that ho over there

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Thot stands for "that ho over there"

    It is typically used to describe a female who engages in sex with multiple males and uses her good looks as a source of power to manipulate men. They are seen as being in training to get married to a high status male have kids and then get divorced and take half his stuff.

    It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.
    So they just need to invest in some condoms ?

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    The ancient Egyptians tried smearing the member with Croc dung . Not only do I not think it would work I imagine there would be risk of female infection . Those crazy gypos , even they would not shoot them .

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    So they just need to invest in some condoms ?
    Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-is-the-Future

    However, you're still stuck with the ultimate destroyer of liberty, efficiency and happiness: the thot.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-is-the-Future
    Ya , my Mother would have diagnosed that as repression .



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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Ya , my Mother would have diagnosed that as repression .
    He claims he has banged a lot of thots. I don't know what the problem is.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    He claims he has banged a lot of thots. I don't know what the problem is.
    I do not believe him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    Ya I don't know why anybody is mad at thots, we had a guy who showed up here and was all mad at thots..

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...-is-the-Future

    However, you're still stuck with the ultimate destroyer of liberty, efficiency and happiness: the thot.
    People like that are a product of the new grievance industry aimed at disgruntled young white men.

    ...just the mirror image of the trigglypuff phenomenon.

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    Last edited by tommyrp12; 02-06-2018 at 10:22 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    I do not believe him.
    I dunno, I found his facebook:


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    Video of PODER Protesters (also embedded in the Independent article at the link)
    https://www.facebook.com/sbindepende...6105678714836/


    https://www.independent.com/news/201...ct-wake-viole/

    San Marcos Parents Spar With School District in Wake of Violent Video




    Criminal Investigation of Six Minors Could End This Week

    Thursday, February 8, 2018


    by KEITH HAMM

    Parents of students at San Marcos High School remained concerned with their children’s safety as hundreds gathered in the campus auditorium late Monday to discuss the ongoing criminal investigation of six boys linked to an online video threatening the death of more than a dozen female students.

    The 90-second mock instructional video features a male San Marcos student saying, “I’m going to show you how to kill a thot.” (“Thot,” pronounced “thought,” is short for “that ho over there.”) He then describes how to load and shoot a Colonial-era rifle and how to use its bayonet. He signs off with, “I hope you found this video helpful in your war against thots.” The video was posted in a private chat room, where another of the six boys posted a “list of thots that need to be eradicated,” with accompanying names and pictures of at least 16 female students from San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, and Santa Barbara high schools and La Colina Junior High School, according to parents familiar with the posts.

    On Friday, January 19, the threats were brought to the attention of school administrators, who immediately called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. Initially, administrators also contacted the families of the six boys and the targeted girls, but according to many angered parents, the greater student body at San Marcos and all the students and staff at the other campuses were not notified by school officials until several days later.

    By January 24, some or all of the six boys had been suspended. Parents said Monday that four of the six boys were back in class this week, while the boy in the video and the boy who posted the list remained absent. The identities and whereabouts — and reliable information, in general — of all six remained a major point of contention among parents.


    Bound by federal education code, Santa Barbara Unified School District administrators cannot speak publicly about disciplinary actions against minors, even those in the spotlight of a criminal investigation, said Superintendent Cary Matsuoka, on hand Monday to moderate the discussion and to apologize for his office’s missed opportunities early on “to inform all parents,” he said. “We just flat-out missed it, and I’m apologizing to you tonight.

    You shouldn’t find out about it on the six o’clock news. We were too slow.” Matsuoka said it took four days for his team to learn the extent of the online threats and their impact on students and parents district-wide. “We underestimated the emotional impact of the threat to you and your children,” Matsuoka said.

    Many in the audience pointed out similarities between the boys’ overt misogyny and that of 22-year-old Elliot Rodger before he killed six people in Isla Vista in 2014. The video and list from the San Marcos boys also became more widely known the same week a 15-year-old student at Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky, opened fire with a handgun, killing two. In the wake of the online threats, but without concrete information from school administrators or law enforcement, some parents opted to keep their children home. Other students returned to class only after developing an “exit plan” should an attack erupt on campus, according to a parent who wished to remain anonymous.


    “We began a disciplinary process, and it’s ongoing,” Matsuoka said. “We can’t talk about who was targeted. We can’t talk about who committed it. Just know we’re doing our jobs, and we’re working as fast as we can.” Generally speaking, Matsuoka said the district isn’t required to wait for the conclusion of a Sheriff Office’s investigation before proceeding with an expulsion.

    Asked if the case was being investigated as a hate crime — a third post, allegedly by one of the six boys on Instagram, featured Nazi tanks and swastika flags as part of “the war on thots” — the Sheriff’s Office was “unable to answer specific questions,” said Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover.

    While law enforcement is withholding details, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office Commander Darin Fotheringham — who also spoke to parents on Monday — did say that after learning of the video on that Friday, his deputies determined over the weekend that no students or teachers were in danger as classes picked up again the following Monday. Fotheringham said that determination was made after dozens of interviews and background and firearm-registry checks among the families of the six alleged offenders. Officers have also since served three warrants and seized evidence.

    Fotheringham said Monday that no arrests had been made; he anticipated that the case would be wrapped up by the end of this week and sent to District Attorney Joyce Dudley’s office for review.


    Last edited by dannno; 02-09-2018 at 02:45 PM.
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    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
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    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post

    Video of PODER Protesters:
    (also embedded in the Independent article at the link https://www.independent.com/news/201...ct-wake-viole/)

    https://www.facebook.com/sbindepende...6105678714836/
    Comments:

    Sacjon a day agoWhoa, wait...... what do Aztec dancers have to do with any of this?? How is this a racial issue now?



    • Kid Sacjon a day agoI think the Aztec dancers were there to remind everyone how well the Aztecs treated their neighboring tribes.

    Last edited by dannno; 02-09-2018 at 02:45 PM.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post

    It is the opposite of a nice traditional girl who would like an honest committed relationship with an honest committed male partner and rear children with him.
    AKA a Unicorn.



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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    People like that are a product of the new grievance industry aimed at disgruntled young white men.

    ...just the mirror image of the trigglypuff phenomenon.
    Is it still a "grievance industry" if the grievances in question are true?

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    What law was broken exactly? And who is the victim?

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    Quote Originally Posted by specsaregood View Post
    What law was broken exactly? And who is the victim?
    I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

    The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

    He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

    They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

    The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

    He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

    They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.
    It's pretty obviously a joke, and no doubt there are endless comparable jokes that could be found airing on television.

    Of course school-related threats need to be taken seriously due to the true psychopaths that have acted in the past, so it does require some amount of investigation. If this guy had a show on Comedy Central, then it would be much less concerning to parents and school officials.
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    I thought a "thot" as like a "clue'.

    and that a "thot shot" from a musket would be like a "clue bat".

    but it's hard to keep up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    I think authorities are being fairly realistic about the actual threat, the parents are flipping out and the school doesn't know what to do to calm the situation.

    The boy had some kinda old style musket, not sure if it was a real functional replica what..

    He instructed how to load the musket, fire and use the bayonet.. except he didn't have real gun powder or bullets. Or any real weapons at all.

    They did make a hit list of a dozen or so thots for a hit list, which is pretty bad, but I mean the fact that they were talking about using muskets kinda shows that they weren't being totally serious about all this.
    Where I live you do not have to have a concealed carry handgun permit to carry a black powder revolver so I kind of like them specifically for that reason . If I buy one I just try and get a couple extra cylinders with it so I can load them up and carry them too . Nobody even really considers them weapons under the law .

  26. #23
    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Is it still a "grievance industry" if the grievances in question are true?
    The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

    They would be losers in any social system.

    They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

    They would be losers in any social system.

    They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.
    What total horse $#@!.

    So a woman divorces a man because she is 'dissatisfied' (70% of divorces), takes half his $#@!, goes out and dates men who aren't in her league and who just want to have sex with her, and the husband must fund her slutty lifestyle, expose his kids to 30x odds of being abused, and this is the same as women who don't take care of themselves how exactly?
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    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

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    San Marcos High School Discovers Series of Anonymous Threats

    Classes Remain in Session, but Some Students Stay Home

    Thursday, March 8, 2018


    [Update: March 9, 3:23 p.m.] While the investigation into graffiti found on March 7 continues, three new threatening graffiti messages were found, this time in the boy’s locker room at San Marcos

    High School. A student reported them to school administrators today. According to Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Kelly Hoover, the messages first reported on March 7 and those found today, March 9, are not related.


    The school remained open, and parents were kept updated via the district’s email system.


    [Original Story: March 8, 12:52 p.m.]
    A new threat surfaced at San Marcos High School yesterday, a month after a handful of male students made online threats against female students. Administrators and Sheriff’s deputies are scrambling to respond.


    On March 7, an anonymous tip led school administrators to a threatening message graffitied in the girl’s locker room at San Marcos High School. The message threatened a shooting on campus Friday, March 9, according to Kelly Hoover, Sheriff’s Office public information officer.


    School administrators contacted the Sheriff’s Office at around 11:20 a.m. Deputies responded immediately and initiated an investigation into the source and credibility of the threat, according to Hoover. The exact language of the threat has not been made public. Deputies are first looking to students for information, interviewing students who were in the area where the graffiti was first found.


    After San Marcos parents were notified of the incident via email yesterday, classes remained in session today, a decision that was “made in partnership with law enforcement,” said Lauren Bianchi, spokesperson for the Santa Barbara Unified School District. “In consult with law enforcement, at this time, San Marcos High School will be open today and tomorrow,” she added.


    Though both the Sheriff’s Office and school administrators are able to lockdown area schools, Hoover indicated that neither a lockdown or cancellation of classes seemed necessary thus far.

    “We’re investigating to identify the source. It could be a student just trying to get attention. It could be a student who’s trying to cause harm. At this point what we really need is for anyone who knows who’s responsible to contact the Sheriff’s Office.” Information can be called in at (805) 683- 2724, or an anonymous tip left at (805) 681- 4171 or at sbsheriff.org.


    Sheriff’s deputies have stepped up patrols on campus today and on the 9th. The district hasn’t released today’s attendance numbers, but some parents have kept their children home. One said she was comfortable with her child attending school today but not on Friday.


    San Marcos High School has been no stranger to threats of violence in the last few months. After the violence was threatened against a group of female students in January, the school district has struggled to respond to a host of parent demands. Embattled Principal Ed Behrens remains in his post at the school through year’s end, but the district has informed Behrens that at the end of this school year he will be removed from his position as San Marcos principal and offered a teaching job.


    In light of that threat and the February mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, all district schools have undergone lockdown drills in preparation for a potential active shooter incident. “Especially with the climate across the country right now, we’re seeing threats like this all over the country,” Hoover said of Wednesday’s graffiti discovery. “There’s a high sensitivity around reports of threats, and there’s a serious fear of school violence.”

    Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article erroneously stated San Marcos Principal Ed Behrens was removed from his post over his handling of the January threats. The district has not made that assertion.

    http://https://www.independent.com/n...ymous-threats/
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    The people buying into the whole anti-"thot," "men going their own way," faggy business are losers.

    They would be losers in any social system.

    They hate women for the same reason that ugly, ornery women hate men.
    This exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lamp View Post
    That was just @Danke looking for cake.

  33. #29
    This srsly sounds like a few kids trolling the school...


    https://www.independent.com/news/201...gh-school-pri/


    School District Demotes San Marcos High School Principal

    Ed Behrens’ Supporters Say He’s The Scapegoat for District Incompetence

    Wednesday, March 14, 2018



    Embattled San Marcos High School Principal Ed Behrens ​— ​set to speak Tuesday evening during a crowded Board of Education meeting that would decide his fate ​— ​received a hooting and hollering standing ovation before he even opened his mouth. From the day he was hired six years ago, he began, “My passion and vision was to create the very best high school.” From there he verbalized a glowing checklist of accomplishments ​— ​from embedded intervention programs to help struggling students to graduation rates that climbed as dropout numbers decreased ​— ​as his massive crowd of supporters responded with sustained bursts of applause. But the seemingly impervious force field of adoration, backed by a petition of support bearing 2,400 signatures, wasn’t enough to protect Behrens from a board vote of no confidence after nearly three hours of closed-door deliberation. Voting 4 to 1, with Laura Capps casting the sole “nay,” boardmembers approved Santa Barbara Unified School District’s recommendation that at the end of this school year, Principal Behrens be reassigned to a teaching position. Roars of protest erupted from the crowd. “You should be ashamed of yourselves!” others yelled at the board majority. Behrens quickly made for an exit.

    The heated meeting, held at Santa Barbara Junior High School’s Marjorie Luke Theatre to accommodate more than 450 concerned San Marcos parents, students, and teachers, unfolded in the wake of a run of violent incidents during which Behrens’s leadership has been mostly praised ​— ​but also called into question. In January, a private chat-room video surfaced featuring a male San Marcos freshman describing how to kill female students with a rifle and bayonet, accompanied by a long list of female and gay male students that ought to be killed. Parents and students familiar with the video and list alleged that as many as 10 boys were involved.

    Bound by privacy laws protecting minors, school administrators and law-enforcement officials will not name the suspects nor reveal to parents whether the boys have been allowed to return to classes, adding to tensions and uncertainties on campus and off. While many parents claimed that Behrens and the district as a whole failed to promptly send out widespread alerts as the seriousness of the incident took shape, others have claimed, according to one speaker Tuesday night, “He did the best he could with the resources he had, and those resources were not enough.” In that respect, supporters reiterated that they believe the district was throwing Behrens under the bus instead of admitting its own shortcomings in how to deal with cyber threats.

    The district does not comment on personnel matters, but in a recent statement, it said generally that any decision “takes into account a number of different factors, including performance evaluations, with a view towards making decisions to retain or release administrators from their current position based upon the best interests of students.”
    Though widely outnumbered, a group of speakers Tuesday evening did call for fresh leadership at the high school, echoing language of an active petition at Change.org. “We demand new leadership … that is transparent and culturally proficient,” the petition reads. “We demand that Ethnic Studies be a graduation requirement for all high schools at Santa Barbara Unified School District, [and we] demand that no residential security officers be assigned at any of the SBUSD schools as it has been proven to negatively affect culturally diverse students and staff.”


    On March 7, as divided parent and student groups solidified in advance of Tuesday’s board meeting, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to campus to investigate threatening graffiti found on a bathroom stall in the girls’ locker room. The message, in black permanent marker, threatened a school shooting on March 9, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Three more pieces of disturbing graffiti were discovered on March 9, in the boys’ locker room, according to Public Information Officer Kelly Hoover, who added that the words threatened violence but were unrelated to the March 7 discovery.

    On Monday, the campus was placed on lockdown when several students heard a small explosion.

    “It happened right at the end of lunch,” said junior Jaiden Feldman. “I really didn’t register the sound, but I saw the looks on people’s faces, and people just scattered.” Feldman added that she felt relieved to see fellow students start to laugh, but “none of us knew what was going on. A lot of us were nervous, but I didn’t think there was a shooter.” Deputies with the Sheriff’s Office responded to “a call of shots heard,” said Hoover.

    “Right before the school called the lockdown, a cop car came speeding into the parking lot next to my classroom,” Feldman said. “That made everybody nervous. I texted my parents that I was in a lockdown but I didn’t think it was serious. But just in case, I told them, ‘I love you guys.’”
    Hoover said deputies eventually learned that the sound came from an exploding firecracker.


    Last edited by dannno; 03-15-2018 at 10:26 AM.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
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    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

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    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raginfridus View Post
    This exactly.
    Perhaps you could critique my response to that post.
    "He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
    "dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
    "You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
    "When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q

    "Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

    "Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."

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