What's going on at Churchill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing Montgomery county leadership took the community police officers out of the high schools

Ugh, right? It was bad enough already. Bring the SROs back.

We can thank our MCCPTA for the lack of SRO's. Their brilliant advocacy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing Montgomery county leadership took the community police officers out of the high schools

Ugh, right? It was bad enough already. Bring the SROs back.

Tell me how exactly SROs would have prevented a student from bringing the knife to the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing Montgomery county leadership took the community police officers out of the high schools

Ugh, right? It was bad enough already. Bring the SROs back.

Tell me how exactly SROs would have prevented a student from bringing the knife to the school.

Security at the school. Keep up with gossip. Get involved when its happening. The do nothing approach doesn't appear to be working given kids behavior is getting worse vs. better. We should have metal detectors and other precautions at every school.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like someone came after a particular student. They have a history?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing Montgomery county leadership took the community police officers out of the high schools

Ugh, right? It was bad enough already. Bring the SROs back.

Tell me how exactly SROs would have prevented a student from bringing the knife to the school.

Intelligence gathering helps police identify potential problems and prevent some of them. Of course they can’t prevent all. But removing SROs took out al the good parts of the program and just left the bad (the arrests). There are racial disparities in victims of crimes too, but nobody even considers that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

[Anonymous]

My kids goes Churchill it happened 11:35 and school started 11:30 everyone was inside. It was a Whitman kid who causes the trouble not a Churchill kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids goes Churchill it happened 11:35 and school started 11:30 everyone was inside. It was a Whitman kid who causes the trouble not a Churchill kid.

Sounds like it was both a Whitman and Churchill kid if the Whitman kid came to Churchill. Wow, really, someone needs to get a handle on those W schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning. They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech. Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

This issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off. No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning. They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech. Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

This issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off. No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation.

My DS was there at the time. They told all of the kids who were at school to go to the stadium. Mine got back in his car and came home. He told me there was no way he was going to be a sitting duck in the stadium for a crazy school shooter using a bomb threat as a diversion. DS did the absolute right thing! They need to get it together in MCPS and I fully support the SROs in the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning. They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech. Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

This issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off. No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation.

My DS was there at the time. They told all of the kids who were at school to go to the stadium. Mine got back in his car and came home. He told me there was no way he was going to be a sitting duck in the stadium for a crazy school shooter using a bomb threat as a diversion. DS did the absolute right thing! They need to get it together in MCPS and I fully support the SROs in the schools.

Good for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning. They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech. Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

This issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off. No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation.

My DS was there at the time. They told all of the kids who were at school to go to the stadium. Mine got back in his car and came home. He told me there was no way he was going to be a sitting duck in the stadium for a crazy school shooter using a bomb threat as a diversion. DS did the absolute right thing! They need to get it together in MCPS and I fully support the SROs in the schools.

A girl pushed and punched a girl who got slightly hurt. Parents and other students attempted to intervene. Girl most likely scared showed a knife as running back to car take off.

Wow scary, not. Horrible for girl pushed and punched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved? Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student. All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place. Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school. Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus. We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.

Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning. They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech. Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

This issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off. No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation.

My DS was there at the time. They told all of the kids who were at school to go to the stadium. Mine got back in his car and came home. He told me there was no way he was going to be a sitting duck in the stadium for a crazy school shooter using a bomb threat as a diversion. DS did the absolute right thing! They need to get it together in MCPS and I fully support the SROs in the schools.

A girl pushed and punched a girl who got slightly hurt. Parents and other students attempted to intervene. Girl most likely scared showed a knife as running back to car take off.

Wow scary, not. Horrible for girl pushed and punched.

The parent at the scene thought the situation was more serious than what Mr. Taylor put in his email. No where did Mr. Taylor say a knife was shown but the parent felt threatened by the knife. He was also scared for the life of his child that was with him. The police took 20 minutes to arrive to Churchill even though 911 was called 3 times.

MCPS needs to have better communication when serious incidents occur including a method to keep students from going to school when a dangerous event is occurring. 20 minutes is far too long for the police to respond to a dangerous situation at a school. I agree that SROs should be in high schools for incidents including what happened yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
A girl pushed and punched a girl who got slightly hurt. Parents and other students attempted to intervene. Girl most likely scared showed a knife as running back to car take off.

Wow scary, not. Horrible for girl pushed and punched.

Wrong. The assailant was a male.

Don’t post sh1t if you don’t know WTF you’re writing about.

[Anonymous]

I don't want another damn thing on DCUM about how dangerous Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, or Seneca Valley are. The fact is, there are troubled kids at every school, and things that happen at every school. Some have been more successful at keeping them quiet until recently, though.