This is what we have inherited in the name of equality. I know that sounds stark, but there is no other way to describe it. That is not a racial knee jerk observation by any stretch. Our public accommodations have been an open invitation to this kind of behavior over almost fifty years of social experimentation. No corporal punishment, no penalty for anti social behavior of any kind.
I know that area very well. Nearby Oxon Hill was a very liveable community in the early sixties when my lounger brother lived there, as well as any number of other young employees of the FBI. Getting there from downtown D. C., however, was not so trouble free.
There was a great story a in the Balt Sun years ago about this single black working Mom in Baltimore city who got a good job and decided to move West to Balt county Reisterstown.
In the city she sent her kid to private schools but thought the expensive public schools of that part of Baltimore county would be just as good (money=better right?)
She soon pulled her children out and put them back in private school when she saw the standard student, dress, behavior, language and very low school academic standards of that public school.
You see the real problem was more than $$$, it was disinterest of the other parents who demanded nothing of the free school.
That was a great school decades earlier but those residents are gone.