Richard Montgomery - former student arrested with handgun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:40, you are a moron. go back to Whitman.

and............... then the Whitman, designer drug taking rich kid takes a gun to school and shoots up his classmates-crap like this can happen anywhere. Adam Lanza was a wealthy kid in a wealthy, white community who attended the same "W" type schools as the one he shot up. It is about mental illness-leading to sociopathic behavior.

[Anonymous]

Now I will add my thanks and praise to the tipster!

[Anonymous]

I heard from an insider that the place is a zoo - esp b/c suspensions are no longer an option.

I know zoos; I work in one.

[Anonymous]

They stopped a kid with a loaded gun from harming anyone..seems pretty well run to me! Too many schools have not been able to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They stopped a kid with a loaded gun from harming anyone..seems pretty well run to me! Too many schools have not been able to.

Sorry, the kid got into the school with a loaded gun. That is what I see. Wake-up to all of these schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard from an insider that the place is a zoo - esp b/c suspensions are no longer an option.

I know zoos; I work in one.

I heard from an insider that a W school has rampant drug issues, and the parents always bail them out, esp. because they are wealthy and think the laws don't apply to them.

[Anonymous]

Wake-up to all of these schools.

You mean wake-up to all schools..and they should already be awake. If 1st graders in Newtown CT are not immune, no one is!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard from an insider that the place is a zoo - esp b/c suspensions are no longer an option.

I know zoos; I work in one.

I heard from an insider that a W school has rampant drug issues, and the parents always bail them out, esp. because they are wealthy and think the laws don't apply to them.

def true about Wootton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard from an insider that the place is a zoo - esp b/c suspensions are no longer an option.

I know zoos; I work in one.

I heard from an insider that a W school has rampant drug issues, and the parents always bail them out, esp. because they are wealthy and think the laws don't apply to them.

worked in a W school
very true

Now, at the zoo, where suspensions and expulsions are a no no, we can't stop fights. One day we had four.

[Anonymous]

He wasn't in the school with the gun, he was outside the school. He approached, saw Police and walked away, Police saw him, knew who they were looking for, and apprehended him.

[Anonymous]

He was in the school Wednesday and Thursday.

[Anonymous]

According the the letter sent to parents, he was seen "attempting to enter the parking lot" on the second day and was arrested nearby. Nothing about being in the school on the second day.

[Anonymous]

WUSA reported that he was "on school grounds" the second day. And the charges include possession of a gun on school grounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WUSA reported that he was "on school grounds" the second day. And the charges include possession of a gun on school grounds.

You can be on school grounds without being in the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They stopped a kid with a loaded gun from harming anyone..seems pretty well run to me!

This. The school cannot control if person comes to school property with a dangerous weapon and possibly intent on doing harm, but they can and did prevent any such harm from happening. Sounds like they handled a dangerous and precarious situation in the best way possible, with the best outcome possible.

In order to 100% prevent anyone with a gun from coming onto school grounds (presumably with an exception for LEOs) schools would effectively have to set up airport-style security at the entrances to the parking lots and around the entire perimeter of campus. I'm not sure that's feasible (or desirable), nor am I sure that parents/taxpayers/community stakeholders would go for what that actually entails.

I think what schools need to do, which appears to be what Richard Montgomery did in this case, is have a protocol in place to make sure that if someone unauthorized to possess a weapon on school grounds does in fact show up with one they are unable to do harm to anyone in the school community and law enforcement is notified to take control of the incident.