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RMHS Serious Incident today
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Anonymous
They don't want to hurt the MCPS brand so they use watered down language to downplay the seriousness of what's going on. It's pathetic. |
Anonymous
| Is RM really this bad? Isn't this the second gun incident at the school this year? |
Anonymous
| Metal detectors in every high school and middle school are worth the money to prevent a tragedy. |
Anonymous
The anti-weapons detector and "school prison-to-pipeline" people are going to nag you to death about how this is a waste of money and racist, even though majority-black PG County Public Schools has recently made the decision to install weapons detectors in high schools. |
Anonymous
They had a lock down in the fall because there was a robbery in the school bathroom. |
Anonymous
Don’t be so smug. The drugs and weapons are at every single MCPS HS. |
Anonymous
It was not in the fall this year. It was in the winter of last school year: https://patch.com/maryland/rockville/3-teens-face-arrested-robbery-rockville-high-school |
Anonymous
+1 PP won't be "glad" when the "crappy dcum HS" is next |
Anonymous
j I know some schools in the country have this so it must be feasible. But how do they work? Does it take forever for kids to get in the door? I'm thinking how long the airport line is-- they do that every day? Are there so many metal detector lines (and people staffing them) that it goes relatively quickly? (I've seen this in office buildings downtown, but in that case, 2000 people aren't getting off school busses at the same time). |
Anonymous
no. DC said it was handled with no further incident, right before lunch. |
Anonymous
| My straight A kid is very upset about this. We live in one of the “higher end” feeder neighborhoods and are surprised by how often issues like this occur. My kid asked me where would a high schooler get a gun—they just could not understand. BTW-we are a minority family and the same race as the perpetrator. Mentioning this because often we all get painted with the same broad brush. |
Anonymous
| It’s getting to the point that bathrooms need permanent monitors. Vapers hang out and kids are now bringing guns to school. |
Anonymous
They literally mentioned the student with a gun in the second sentence. You are quibbling that it was not in the subject line of the email? |
Anonymous
How is this downplaying? "Today, in collaboration with the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) and MCPS security, our school administration successfully intervened to confiscate a loaded handgun from one of our students." |
Anonymous
| If not metal detectors, I wonder whether treating more minor infractions (disrespect, drugs, cutting class, threats, any violence) more seriously could help minimize events like this. I don't remember this many issues when there was stricter discipline (or any discipline). But that could just be a biased rosy view of the past. Would a review show that this student had other infractions that went unaddressed or insufficiently addressed (e.g. may have led to suspension in a different era?) |