West Potomac HS situation

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Anonymous wrote:This county is becoming a joke. I hope that teacher is brought down.

I’m a teacher and I’m not about to get involved when a student has a knife.

Do you want violent kids to remain in school? Or be expelled?

Crickets from the teacher. Why?

I am a teacher. Violent students deserve an education but it doesn’t have to be in person. They can do online schooling IMO.

Not a bad idea. Also, FCPS offers several programs for students who have experienced difficulties with the law or need alternative educational settings. These include Alternative High Schools like Bryant High School and Mountain View High School. Additionally, Alternative Learning Centers (ALCs) such as Bryant, Burke, Montrose, and Mountain View provide specialized support for students needing more individualized instruction.

Students who stab other students are not going to Bryant, Mountain View, etc. They are heading to juvie (where, yes, they will have access to classes).

Wrong, as a parent whose child suffered a brutal attack both in middle and high school, pressed charges, etc, the officers both times said no such thing as juvie in FCPS anymore.
Also, Fairfax Juvie is not a jail it basically looks like any other fcps school so its not really a punishment

[Anonymous]

The press conference that Dr. Reid held was EMBARRASSING. How could she say with a straight face that kids couldn’t leave because it’s a still an active investigation, but classes had resumed oh and kids were moving through abbreviated lunch.

If it’s an active crime scene, class should be stopped, lunch should not be served and the school needs to be on lockdown.

Those parents were right to be outraged and Dr. Reid and FCPS need to re-evaluate why the hell they think school can resume normally after a STABBING happens on campus.

[Anonymous]

Can we get back to what happened here. Why were they fighting? Where was the stabbing? How did they know each other?

[Anonymous]

Embarrassing press conference. Reid should have taken 2 minutes to review the video widely available before speaking. Could have avoided the need to backtrack on staff response, etc., Has she ever handled a situation well? National merit awards, football coach, boundary study, 6-8 middle school, this incident, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Embarrassing press conference. Reid should have taken 2 minutes to review the video widely available before speaking. Could have avoided the need to backtrack on staff response, etc., Has she ever handled a situation well? National merit awards, football coach, boundary study, 6-8 middle school, this incident, etc.

+1. Though, what can we expect from a Superintendent who has been more reactive than proactive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The press conference that Dr. Reid held was EMBARRASSING. How could she say with a straight face that kids couldn’t leave because it’s a still an active investigation, but classes had resumed oh and kids were moving through abbreviated lunch.

If it’s an active crime scene, class should be stopped, lunch should not be served and the school needs to be on lockdown.

Those parents were right to be outraged and Dr. Reid and FCPS need to re-evaluate why the hell they think school can resume normally after a STABBING happens on campus.

Completely agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The press conference that Dr. Reid held was EMBARRASSING. How could she say with a straight face that kids couldn’t leave because it’s a still an active investigation, but classes had resumed oh and kids were moving through abbreviated lunch.

If it’s an active crime scene, class should be stopped, lunch should not be served and the school needs to be on lockdown.

Those parents were right to be outraged and Dr. Reid and FCPS need to re-evaluate why the hell they think school can resume normally after a STABBING happens on campus.

Lockdown? Are you really that stupid? Do you even know what a lockdown is? There is ZERO movement inside a classroom. All spaces are locked. Kids sit silently away from all doors and windows. There’s no talking. No going to the bathroom. No teaching. Nothing happens until an administrator or police open the door.

Is that what you wanted to have happened for hours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they let one parent pick up their kid early, then they would need to devote staff to allowing all the parents there to also get their kids early.

It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.

When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.

Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH

The parents at press conferences were asking for FCPS to be clear on what was happening. Parents were not asking for special treatment. In Stay Put Sit Tight as stated on FCPS website, a parent with ID CAN pick up student. Perhaps this incident will prompt FCPS to change its written protocols if it did not intend to allow parents to pick up during Stay Put Sit Tight. The issue was FCPS has a written protocol that they didn’t follow and called situation one thing (and did sound better for press), but acted to different protocols.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/safety-security/emergency-planning-and-crisis-response#:~:text=Stay%20Put%2C%20Stay%20Tuned%20may,external%20situation%20is%20being%20resolved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The press conference that Dr. Reid held was EMBARRASSING. How could she say with a straight face that kids couldn’t leave because it’s a still an active investigation, but classes had resumed oh and kids were moving through abbreviated lunch.

If it’s an active crime scene, class should be stopped, lunch should not be served and the school needs to be on lockdown.

Those parents were right to be outraged and Dr. Reid and FCPS need to re-evaluate why the hell they think school can resume normally after a STABBING happens on campus.

Lockdown? Are you really that stupid? Do you even know what a lockdown is? There is ZERO movement inside a classroom. All spaces are locked. Kids sit silently away from all doors and windows. There’s no talking. No going to the bathroom. No teaching. Nothing happens until an administrator or police open the door.

Is that what you wanted to have happened for hours?

If she is withholding children from being released to their parents on the basis that it is an active crime scene and law enforcement still needs to investigate, yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If they let one parent pick up their kid early, then they would need to devote staff to allowing all the parents there to also get their kids early.

It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.

When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.

Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH

This. I am sorry for the man’s distraught DD who wanted to leave the school. I absolutely understand why he would be upset and frustrated. But the outrage over keeping the kids inside, and not allowing the children to leave when a few parents wanted them to is unbalanced. This isn’t a small school and this isn’t a private school.

I live in Alexandria City where we famously have ONE gigantic school with its share of fights, stabbings, etc. The kids often will meet up at Bradlee to continue fights (this is also where one kid was killed/stabbed and another was shot). You are naive and ignorant if you don’t think it was a real threat that kids could not have continued this fight or angst off campus had they been released. Sure it could have happened at 3 or 4pm once school got out but if you let them out 1 hour, etc right after this happens the likelihood absolutely probably is higher.

Live in the real world. It’s 2025.

[Anonymous]

Superintendent Reid’s implication that the reason high school students couldn’t get released for the day was because the only opportunity teens in her district have to eat is through a free meal at school is preposterous. By doing so she is admitting that her leadership has failed at the entire purpose of education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If they let one parent pick up their kid early, then they would need to devote staff to allowing all the parents there to also get their kids early.

It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.

When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.

Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH

This. I am sorry for the man’s distraught DD who wanted to leave the school. I absolutely understand why he would be upset and frustrated. But the outrage over keeping the kids inside, and not allowing the children to leave when a few parents wanted them to is unbalanced. This isn’t a small school and this isn’t a private school.

I live in Alexandria City where we famously have ONE gigantic school with its share of fights, stabbings, etc. The kids often will meet up at Bradlee to continue fights (this is also where one kid was killed/stabbed and another was shot). You are naive and ignorant if you don’t think it was a real threat that kids could not have continued this fight or angst off campus had they been released. Sure it could have happened at 3 or 4pm once school got out but if you let them out 1 hour, etc right after this happens the likelihood absolutely probably is higher.

Live in the real world. It’s 2025.

The parents do live in real world and were simply acting according to and following instructions specifically written by FCPS for what parents should and can do when FCPS calls a situation a Stay Put Sit Tight, which by FCPS words is kids cannot leave on own but can be picked up by parent with proper ID. The parents at school had such proper ID to pick up their kids. The parents were not asking for entire school to be released, but for FCPS to follow its own emergency response directions. So if FCPS calling it SPST, FCPS should follow FCPS-drafted protocol posted on their website. If FCPS did not want to release to parents for whatever reason, they needed to not call it SPST.

Bottom-line, someone needed to have prepped Reid as she didn’t know FCPS emergency response terms and what mean. She set herself up as soon as she called it SPST.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/safety-security/emergency-planning-and-crisis-response#:~:text=Stay%20Put%2C%20Stay%20Tuned%20may,external%20situation%20is%20being%20resolved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why complete the lunch period, so FCPS could get another day in the books. Sorry, too many people have seen the video, SRO didn’t get there in less than a minute. Not blaming the SRO it is a big campus.

But FCPD and FCPS shouldn’t be patting themselves on the back. Teacher saw the event unfold and did nothing.

Time to bring back reform schools and put the violent trouble making kids in them. Give them a dose of discipline and a chance to correct their behavior.

Hope this turns into another schools no what is best for your child moment, as it did for McAuliffe, parents should have been able to take their kids out of school.

Time for Reid and the school board to go.

Is it a teacher that walks by holding the computer and just keeps strolling?

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Reid's email on this is a joke. She said the "community experienced an act of violence". What the hell does that nonsense even mean? If there is publicly available information available, why not put it in the email? Couldn't she just say there was a stabbing and police are on the scene?

She's simply ineffective.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why complete the lunch period, so FCPS could get another day in the books. Sorry, too many people have seen the video, SRO didn’t get there in less than a minute. Not blaming the SRO it is a big campus.

But FCPD and FCPS shouldn’t be patting themselves on the back. Teacher saw the event unfold and did nothing.

Time to bring back reform schools and put the violent trouble making kids in them. Give them a dose of discipline and a chance to correct their behavior.

Hope this turns into another schools no what is best for your child moment, as it did for McAuliffe, parents should have been able to take their kids out of school.

Time for Reid and the school board to go.

Is it a teacher that walks by holding the computer and just keeps strolling?

Yes, and channel 7 asked Reid about this and said it was unacceptable and they’ll be looking into it.

From what I understand it took over 2 minutes for the SRO to arrive to the fight and break it up. Two minutes is longer than you think for a fight. Perhaps if this teacher had stopped and then alerted an SRO earlier a kid wouldn’t have been stabbed. We don’t know either way. No one ever suggested a teacher physically get in the middle of a fight.But to cavalierly snapped a photo and smugly walk by cannot be protocol.

https://x.com/nickminock/status/1915178152923480369?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg