Stabbing near Gaithersburg HS today

[Anonymous]

Apparently 2 females were fighting each other and one stabbed the other. Not clear if they were students or not but it looks like it. Victim will be ok. Stabber is in custody.

[Anonymous]

2 murders in Germantown yesterday. Moco is going downhill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2 murders in Germantown yesterday. Moco is going downhill

Does anyone have a tally on the number of homicides in the past year have occurred in Germantown? Seems like 20 or more. In previous years, it would have been zero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently 2 females were fighting each other and one stabbed the other. Not clear if they were students or not but it looks like it. Victim will be ok. Stabber is in custody.

Other than the school email, do you have a link to a news source on this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently 2 females were fighting each other and one stabbed the other. Not clear if they were students or not but it looks like it. Victim will be ok. Stabber is in custody.

Other than the school email, do you have a link to a news source on this?

Not the PP. Saw it on News 4 on TV but found this:
www.localdvm.com/news/maryland/one-injured-after-stabbing-near-gaithersburg-high-school/amp/

[Anonymous]

NEAR, not AT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NEAR, not AT.

not INSIDE, either.

[Anonymous]

But it’s a great school with incredible diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it’s a great school with incredible diversity.

Isn't this just North of North Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it’s a great school with incredible diversity.

We are happy there. Please don’t let one incident shape opinion of the entire student body. Things have been better each year since we received a new principal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it’s a great school with incredible diversity.

Tasteless to make that type of comment in jest with this situation as the backdrop. Let me fix it for you: "My deepest condolences to the victim and their family. I have hope that they will pull through and fully recover. This type of violence is senseless and unnecessary as everyone has a basic right to feel safe at school. We must continue to invest in the root causes in order to prevent things like this from happening again, whether it's extra trusted adults to go to when conflicts/upsetting events arise (because they know a better way than the cultural "eye for an eye" or "snitches get stitches"), conflict resolution/restorative justice, reminding students of the long-term consequences of their actions, having parents/role-models proactively check in on how the day's going/letting them know they're not alone, etc."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But it’s a great school with incredible diversity.

We are happy there. Please don’t let one incident shape opinion of the entire student body. Things have been better each year since we received a new principal.

I concur. This, unfortunately, isn't the only school where this has occurred and is a symptom of larger crises amongst youth. Dimmick has done a solid job - I know his son and daughter from my B-CC days, and I can say he's raised a stand-up family.

[Anonymous]

Here's more information:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/teen-arrested-after-stabbing-classmate-near-gaithersburg-high-school/

We need the Clery Act for K-12, instead of just universities. MCPS made no public announcement about this, since it makes them look bad if they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's more information:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/teen-arrested-after-stabbing-classmate-near-gaithersburg-high-school/

We need the Clery Act for K-12, instead of just universities. MCPS made no public announcement about this, since it makes them look bad if they do.

Good idea. Violence is up across the county but it’s mostly up with teens. It’s not always in schools, but they are often beefs that spur retaliation at schools. I can find tons of demographic info on suspensions and arrests at schools, but nothing about the victims. How many students have been attacked? How many stabbed? How many shot at? How many actually shot? How old, what gender, what race?

MCPS doesn’t publish that anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's more information:
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/police-fire/teen-arrested-after-stabbing-classmate-near-gaithersburg-high-school/

We need the Clery Act for K-12, instead of just universities. MCPS made no public announcement about this, since it makes them look bad if they do.

Schools aren’t really allowed to talk about individual students due to privacy laws or police involvement. The press can. It’s not a conspiracy folks.