Student with Gun found at Walter Johnson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is more on the incident. The student will be charged as an adult https://dailyvoice.com/maryland/montgomery/teen-to-be-tried-as-adult-after-bringing-weapon-to-walter-johnson-high-school-police/

Wondering if this has something to do with Israel-Gaza war?

Things that make me go hmmmmm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about how traumatizing this event is for the STAFF as well as for the students? Students don't really choose their school, but the staff can choose . . . And they may choose to leave!

Being in the classroom is hard enough, now the very real proximity to weapons? NO THANK YOU! What's more important, your freedom to carry a weapon or having enough teachers to staff classrooms. Chose wisely.

Who is in favor of students carrying weapons? Wtf?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a DCC High School parent who is constantly chastised and lambasted on this forum for not sending my kid to a W school, because the W schools have less behavioral/safety issues, I think you all need to re-examine your false sense of security and superiority.

What a POS you must be to hear this news and attempt an " I told you I was right"
Wow.
Wj has over three thousands students so it is more likely to happen there than other places. .

I am impressed the student who saw it showed leadership and responsibility and reported it. I can think of a few schools where that part wouldn't have happened.

DP. I wouldn't do it, but since nothing bad happened, and there isn't even any evidence that anything bad was intended to happen, I don't think "W parents need to re-examine your false sense of security and superiority with respect to the DCC" is so inappropriate here.

Your jealousy and insecure pettiness are cringeworthy, PP. The majority of families at W schools do not post on DCUM boasting about their schools. You've never met 99% of these people, and surely you'll concede that most of them aren't even thinking of DCC/W. That's mostly in your head. If you're so sensitive about your situation in the DCC that your first reflex is to criticize people who live in wealthier districts, something is very, very wrong with you.

For shame.

Here's a sampling of some of the DCUM threads where W school parents act holier than thou and above the riff-raff of the rest of MoCo:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1138238.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1159952.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1160173.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1146215.page

WJHS is not a real W.

[Anonymous]

I too am wondering if the Mid East crises triggered this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m very thankful that a student took the initiative to report the gun. However, the letter seemed very boilerplate. At a minimum, it would be a good opportunity to remind parents and students what the penalties as stipulated in the Student Code of Conduct are. To gloss over these penalties doesn’t give them any weight to dissuade students from bringing weapons into school.

The code of conduct is linked. If you scroll through the punishment for possessing a firearm is automatic expulsion for a minimum of one year. The superintendent can decrease that time as their discretion. They better not even think about it.

Where’s the link? Why not clearly state what the penalty is in the letter to the community?

It’s linked in the principal’s letter.

This is why MCPS needs to outsource its communication responsibilities. A link is the digital equivalent of burying information. Most of the readers will never click on the link. In examples the information is quoted, like the PP who posted the letter to this forum, the link will not be copied and thus the connection with the letter to the community will be lost.

If the severity of the penalties in the Code of Conduct is to dissuade students from specific actions, perhaps remind the community what those penalties are. It’s fruitless to mention a document that most students and parents have never read without referencing the specific penalties.

[Anonymous]

It’s not rocket science to know what the penalty for bringing a loaded gun to school is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we talk about how traumatizing this event is for the STAFF as well as for the students? Students don't really choose their school, but the staff can choose . . . And they may choose to leave!

Being in the classroom is hard enough, now the very real proximity to weapons? NO THANK YOU! What's more important, your freedom to carry a weapon or having enough teachers to staff classrooms. Chose wisely.

This is sadly a risk in every single school in the country. It's not a specifically W/non-W or MCPS problem, it's a nationwide issue and has been for years.

Kudos to the student who reported what they believed they saw, even though it sounds like they weren't 100% sure, and to the adults for taking them seriously and acting immediately on the report. As we saw in Newport News, that's not always a given.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is more on the incident. The student will be charged as an adult https://dailyvoice.com/maryland/montgomery/teen-to-be-tried-as-adult-after-bringing-weapon-to-walter-johnson-high-school-police/

Wondering if this has something to do with Israel-Gaza war?

This kid has a history. He was caught with a BB gun about a year and a half ago at Wildwood across the street. I think he was “expelled” after that, but obviously not permanently.

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I am glad no one was hurt.

I agree with PPs who are calling out the snobby W parents on here.

If you aren't a snobby W parent, you have no reason to get huffy. If you are, you should take a step back and reconsider your snobbery. This gun BS is everywhere now. How about you focus on helping with that instead of sitting back and criticizing other schools all the time.

Here’s the thing. I’m a “w parent”. I’m not snobby, I work very very hard to send my kids to WJ but I recognize that I’m fortunate to do so. I’m huffy because our kids were in danger today and there are a bunch of a$$hole$ on here making this a w school vs other schools thing.
Start your own gd thread and let the adults discuss the matter at hand

DP but W parents do that all the times.
Had that been a non-W school, W parents would be here calling the school all kind of names, ganglandia, crime-infested etc...
So cry me a river.

Exactly. They’re constantly putting our schools down for having high FARMS rates, lower test scores, high rates of Hispanic students, etc.

Maybe now they can realize that the W schools aren’t an impenetrable palace of perfection and join the rest of us in the business of improving MCPS, instead of acting like it’s somebody else’s problem.

I think you should see about therapy and stop projecting your insecurities on others. It is no way to live life. Seriously.

W parents are such gaslighters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Both of these things can be true:

I am glad no one was hurt.

I agree with PPs who are calling out the snobby W parents on here.

If you aren't a snobby W parent, you have no reason to get huffy. If you are, you should take a step back and reconsider your snobbery. This gun BS is everywhere now. How about you focus on helping with that instead of sitting back and criticizing other schools all the time.

Here’s the thing. I’m a “w parent”. I’m not snobby, I work very very hard to send my kids to WJ but I recognize that I’m fortunate to do so. I’m huffy because our kids were in danger today and there are a bunch of a$$hole$ on here making this a w school vs other schools thing.
Start your own gd thread and let the adults discuss the matter at hand

DP but W parents do that all the times.
Had that been a non-W school, W parents would be here calling the school all kind of names, ganglandia, crime-infested etc...
So cry me a river.

Exactly. They’re constantly putting our schools down for having high FARMS rates, lower test scores, high rates of Hispanic students, etc.

Maybe now they can realize that the W schools aren’t an impenetrable palace of perfection and join the rest of us in the business of improving MCPS, instead of acting like it’s somebody else’s problem.

Yep. This. Of course it's a tragedy that this happens at ANY SCHOOL ANYWHERE.

Another tragedy is we have to live in close proximity to people who send their kids to W schools and think it gives them some kind of protective superiority. It's a public school. Your kids didn't even need to take a test to go there.

[Anonymous]

I doubt that bringing a gun to school was the kid’s first disciplinary problem. MCPS needs to look at whether its approach to discipline is producing better outcomes for kids with chronic discipline problems or whether it’s just making the schools more dangerous. Kids who are a threat to others need to be put on virtual or MCPS needs to reopen a school just for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt that bringing a gun to school was the kid’s first disciplinary problem. MCPS needs to look at whether its approach to discipline is producing better outcomes for kids with chronic discipline problems or whether it’s just making the schools more dangerous. Kids who are a threat to others need to be put on virtual or MCPS needs to reopen a school just for them.

MCPS did have a special school (Twain) but it was closed years ago, partly because it has disproportionately students of certain races.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a DCC High School parent who is constantly chastised and lambasted on this forum for not sending my kid to a W school, because the W schools have less behavioral/safety issues, I think you all need to re-examine your false sense of security and superiority.

What a POS you must be to hear this news and attempt an " I told you I was right"
Wow.
Wj has over three thousands students so it is more likely to happen there than other places. .

I am impressed the student who saw it showed leadership and responsibility and reported it. I can think of a few schools where that part wouldn't have happened.

DP. I wouldn't do it, but since nothing bad happened, and there isn't even any evidence that anything bad was intended to happen, I don't think "W parents need to re-examine your false sense of security and superiority with respect to the DCC" is so inappropriate here.

Your jealousy and insecure pettiness are cringeworthy, PP. The majority of families at W schools do not post on DCUM boasting about their schools. You've never met 99% of these people, and surely you'll concede that most of them aren't even thinking of DCC/W. That's mostly in your head. If you're so sensitive about your situation in the DCC that your first reflex is to criticize people who live in wealthier districts, something is very, very wrong with you.

For shame.

Here's a sampling of some of the DCUM threads where W school parents act holier than thou and above the riff-raff of the rest of MoCo:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1138238.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1159952.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1160173.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1146215.page

WJHS is not a real W.

It has fewer racially motivated hate incidents than a typical W

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Still think SROs are unnecessary?

SROs have always been necessary. I guess unarmed school staff just love making a kid self search when they are suspected of having a handgun. Super safe for everyone.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still think SROs are unnecessary?

SROs have always been necessary. I guess unarmed school staff just love making a kid self search when they are suspected of having a handgun. Super safe for everyone.

Sounds like the cops were there when that happened.