Monday, December 10, 2012
Some students face consequences on-campus, Whitman's Black and White reports.
Thirty juveniles received alcohol citations for attending a Bethesda house party this month where liquor was available, Montgomery County police said Monday. And according to a report in Walt Whitman’s student newspaper, The Black and White, those cited were Whitman students and some will face on-campus discipline. The house party was reported Dec. 1 in the 6200 block of Wiscasset place in Bethesda, according to police spokeswoman Officer Janelle Smith. Police spokeswoman Officer Britta Thomas told The Black and White that Fire and Rescue was called after one guest appeared to be highly intoxicated. Police who responded issued sobriety tests and cited some students for alcohol possession, according to the report. Smith told Patch that 30 …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Former Wootton student Sean Mayhew joined Montgomery County assistant state's attorney Steve Chaikin for an alcohol awareness forum at Wootton High School.
At Wednesday night’s alcohol awareness forum, Montgomery County assistant state’s attorney Steve Chaikin cautioned members of the Wootton community about the risks of drinking and driving and urged parents to be more up front in talking to and educating their kids. He also brought a surprise: an unannounced guest speaker from Wootton’s class of 2006 whom Chaikin had prosecuted in 2007 for vehicular manslaughter. Sean Mayhew spent 22 months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of vehicular manslaughter in an alcohol-related accident on Seven Locks Road. He was 19 at the time. Now, Mayhew is sharing his story with the community, going to various Montgomery County high schools with Chaikin to let kids and parents alike know it could …
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Underage drinking parties are on the rise throughout the county, according to police—and parents may be partially to blame.
It’s not just kids that need alcohol education on the hazards of underage drinking. It’s parents, too. Underage drinking parties, many of them parent-hosted, are on the rise throughout the county, according to a Gazette report released Wednesday. At a Jan. 26 press conference, Montgomery County Police displayed stacks of kegs and 24-packs of beer seized from underage drinking parties in the county. A task force of local police agencies busted 23 underage drinking parties and issued 239 alcohol citations to youth in possession of or providing alcohol, between Nov. 16 and Jan. 7, said Capt. Thomas Didone of the Montgomery County Police Department. Six underage drivers in violation of alcohol restrictions were also arrested, The Gazette …
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Administrators and students from four Montgomery County schools react to 36 Whitman students being suspended from extracurricular activities for drinking at an off-campus party.
Three dozen students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda were suspended from extracurricular activities resulting from an off-campus, underage drinking incident, the Gazette reported in early January. Whitman Principal Alan Goodwin interviewed several students after picking up on school gossip and Facebook chatter and was able to identify the students cited by Montgomery County Police for alcohol possession at the house party Dec. 10, according to the report. This raised the question: What jurisdiction do schools have to punish students for their actions away from school? Patch caught up with administrators from Wootton and Quince Orchard and students from Whitman, Wootton, and Bethesda-Chevy Chase regarding Goodman’s decision and …
Adreas Belon
3:33 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012
Whitman Parent: these people like Jack who waste their time arguing that kids are over privileged and that the solution to stopping underage drinking is to not have birthday parties for kids at all because its kids 'today' are ill-bred reckless indigents are people who have the mental capacity of a rodent. Get off your high horse as if drinking underage should even be a headline. Beer and wine … more ›