Kennedy Knife Fight

[Anonymous]

https://twitter.com/DCNewsLive/status/1753903513178943549
Conflicting reports regarding whether a student had a knife. Can anyone provide clarification?

[Anonymous]

Didn’t happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t happen.

So the staff and police who discussed it on the 911 call were lying?

[Anonymous]

It’s like a real life West Side Story!

[Anonymous]

Kid at Kennedy said they were told to shelter in place, then the fire bell rang, and everyone was sent outside. They were told a maintenance worker (I think?) accidentally tripped an alarm, which led to the exodus. By like 1030? everything was returned to normal.

Was there a knife? This is the first I've heard of it. Can I see a situation where that might be the first impression that triggered an overreaction? Sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kid at Kennedy said they were told to shelter in place, then the fire bell rang, and everyone was sent outside. They were told a maintenance worker (I think?) accidentally tripped an alarm, which led to the exodus. By like 1030? everything was returned to normal.

Was there a knife? This is the first I've heard of it. Can I see a situation where that might be the first impression that triggered an overreaction? Sure.

Read the letter from the principal in the first post. You also should have gotten it in email if your kid goes to Kennedy as you say.

There were two separate but unrelated incidents that happened that morning.

The first was the fight which included a knife. The second was the fire alarm that the maintenance worker tripped.

The letter explains this, though it strangely calls the student fight a “verbal conflict” and fails to mention that a knife was involved. Hence the OP asking for additional confirmation and clarification of the alleged knife component that was omitted from the principal’s report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kid at Kennedy said they were told to shelter in place, then the fire bell rang, and everyone was sent outside. They were told a maintenance worker (I think?) accidentally tripped an alarm, which led to the exodus. By like 1030? everything was returned to normal.

Was there a knife? This is the first I've heard of it. Can I see a situation where that might be the first impression that triggered an overreaction? Sure.

Read the letter from the principal in the first post. You also should have gotten it in email if your kid goes to Kennedy as you say.

There were two separate but unrelated incidents that happened that morning.

The first was the fight which included a knife. The second was the fire alarm that the maintenance worker tripped.

The letter explains this, though it strangely calls the student fight a “verbal conflict” and fails to mention that a knife was involved. Hence the OP asking for additional confirmation and clarification of the alleged knife component that was omitted from the principal’s report.

If you read what I wrote you'd see that I recounted the events of the letter as they were related to me by my kid. I didn't get the times exact because at the time, I wasnt sure if I should collect my kid from school or not. I did not and they finished the day.

Now, either there's a vast conspiracy to hide the knife or there isn't. I have no idea. Of course I got the email, I wasn't referring to it when I wrote that, I was trying to recount how I found out about it and what my kid knew when it was going on.

I thought that might be helpful.

[Anonymous]

I have no information besides the OP post, but it's obvious that the Twitter OP likes to exaggerate, and that the reports of the event are saying that someone brandished a knife, but didn't stab anyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no information besides the OP post, but it's obvious that the Twitter OP likes to exaggerate, and that the reports of the event are saying that someone brandished a knife, but didn't stab anyone

Yes, he's not a reliable source of information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/DCNewsLive/status/1753903513178943549
Conflicting reports regarding whether a student had a knife. Can anyone provide clarification?

It reminds of the crazed kid with a knife chasing kids around one of the W's parking lot last year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t happen.

So the staff and police who discussed it on the 911 call were lying?

Let me explain police work and "the truth".

People call 911 and they say things that are not true, they say what they think to be true based on chaos. Often a guilty person will put a bunch of lies in the 911 tape trying to be cleaver.

2nd a police report is full of lies, the police go to the scene and ask questions and write it down, often people are wrong when they provide bad information, or they lie. So police reports are full of lies.

A police investigation, should be the closest you get to the truth because (in theory) the cop does an investigation, looks for evidence and only writes what they believe to be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t happen.

So the staff and police who discussed it on the 911 call were lying?

Let me explain police work and "the truth".

People call 911 and they say things that are not true, they say what they think to be true based on chaos. Often a guilty person will put a bunch of lies in the 911 tape trying to be cleaver.

2nd a police report is full of lies, the police go to the scene and ask questions and write it down, often people are wrong when they provide bad information, or they lie. So police reports are full of lies.

A police investigation, should be the closest you get to the truth because (in theory) the cop does an investigation, looks for evidence and only writes what they believe to be true.

Let’s assume staff and police were mistaken when they reported the knife as you claim: Shouldn’t the principal’s letter address that misconception directly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t happen.

So the staff and police who discussed it on the 911 call were lying?

Let me explain police work and "the truth".

People call 911 and they say things that are not true, they say what they think to be true based on chaos. Often a guilty person will put a bunch of lies in the 911 tape trying to be cleaver.

2nd a police report is full of lies, the police go to the scene and ask questions and write it down, often people are wrong when they provide bad information, or they lie. So police reports are full of lies.

A police investigation, should be the closest you get to the truth because (in theory) the cop does an investigation, looks for evidence and only writes what they believe to be true.

Police write that they want to be true. Police investigations are full of lies. Trial is closest you get to the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t happen.

So the staff and police who discussed it on the 911 call were lying?

Let me explain police work and "the truth".

People call 911 and they say things that are not true, they say what they think to be true based on chaos. Often a guilty person will put a bunch of lies in the 911 tape trying to be cleaver.

2nd a police report is full of lies, the police go to the scene and ask questions and write it down, often people are wrong when they provide bad information, or they lie. So police reports are full of lies.

A police investigation, should be the closest you get to the truth because (in theory) the cop does an investigation, looks for evidence and only writes what they believe to be true.

Let’s assume staff and police were mistaken when they reported the knife as you claim: Shouldn’t the principal’s letter address that misconception directly?

So your real objective here is to say the principal is wrong?

Let me guess: you have no children at Kennedy, you just like talking about the fight there more than you like talking about the ones at W schools or Blair. Well, quel suprise.

[Anonymous]

NP

Just mentioning that my kid (Kennedy student) came home that day with the story that there was a knife. She didn't see anything, and she doesn't know anyone involved, but the story that was clearly running through the students at JFK that day at school was that there was a knife. (There is no need to assume outsiders are fabricating malicious rumors, but of course it would be great to verify info before spreading it further.)

When I saw that there wasn't anything mentioned in the principal letter, I figured that this was one of those rumors that gets spread among the kids. When my older kid was at Eastern and Blair when there were incidents with knives, we were certainly informed in the principal letters right away. There is literally no upside for a principal to keep info like that from the parents.