Magruder HS Shooting

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Anonymous wrote:Honest to god I am disturbed to my core by this. How had MCPS become this way? How has this county turned into this? How can we bring things back from the brink.

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Anonymous wrote:Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

Is this the behavior of a sociopath? Denying kids even water. Further traumatizing them so that McKnight could arrive ONE HOUR late to the press conference so she could read her statement for the cameras. How is this putting the health and safety of kids first? I’m disgusted. Everyone should be.

I didn’t hold her responsible for the shooting but if she’s the one that held the kids at school for 5 hours she should be fired tonight!

Unless she still has covid, I hope that she has been working at the central office and not her home in PG. If the kids were kept from their families even longer because she was late coming from PG, then that's unacceptable. Someone else could've spoken in her place. These aren't unreasonable thoughts, and I don't blame her for today's shooting.

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Where are people getting the info that Dr. McKnight is the reason kids were kept on lockdown? I did not see this anywhere but dcum. It can’t be true.

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My kids are home, safe and sound. So relieved! Feeding them a good meal.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are home, safe and sound. So relieved! Feeding them a good meal.

I’m so happy for you! Must be a big relief.

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Anonymous wrote:So crazy. The shooter was sitting in a classroom on lockdown until he was arrested closer to 3pm…that’s two hours. Saw on Facebook that the police apprehended him in the classroom. That could’ve so easily become a shootout situation. Terrifying.

I’m glad my kids and I were blissfully unaware - my son was under the impression that the suspect was already in custody while we were texting between 1:15-3pm. We would’ve been in a panic.

Yes, it’s crazy. But beyond that MCPS lied! They had a kid with a gun trying to hide in the school in a lockdown situation and their immediate reaction was to lie through their teeth. They sent an email to parents saying that a student had a health issue and that there was no threat, all the while the gunman is hiding out in the school.

PP here. That’s just unfathomable. I would have lost my s**t if I knew the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are people getting the info that Dr. McKnight is the reason kids were kept on lockdown? I did not see this anywhere but dcum. It can’t be true.

Why do you MCPS people lie so much?

The letter from the Dr. Evans announced that kids would begin to be released at 5, which was conveniently after the scheduled 4:45 press conference. As the press conference was delayed, the kids were still held in the school and the last ones were being released at 6:30 or so.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist. Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families. By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.

Racism is structural and it's more strongly present in some structures than in others. The cops are a racist structure from the get-go--the idea of modern policing originates in slave patrols. Putting police into a structure like a school, which also has a history of structural racism, is not a great idea...as we can see from all the school shootings in which SROs have cowered, fled, or otherwise been radically ineffective.

Then we should have metal detectors in the schools. No reason not to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are people getting the info that Dr. McKnight is the reason kids were kept on lockdown? I did not see this anywhere but dcum. It can’t be true.

Why do you MCPS people lie so much?

The letter from the Dr. Evans announced that kids would begin to be released at 5, which was conveniently after the scheduled 4:45 press conference. As the press conference was delayed, the kids were still held in the school and the last ones were being released at 6:30 or so.

MCPS seemingly is so used to lying that they will lie about life and death issues without care. But also, it’s so brazen that they will lie about things that are easy to check. Like here’s a Magruder parent.

[Anonymous]

I am a Magruder teacher if anyone has any questions. Kids were very good during the lockdown. Staff were pretty positive. All of us are new to this so it is hard to process it. Felt like a normal day. Lockdown was relaxed with most students just on phones. The worst part by far was not being able to use the restroom.

I agree that communication sucked. They wouldnt even tell us any details even though it’s all over the news/Twitter.

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The incident was reported to police at 12:53pm.

The public knew about it on Twitter shortly thereafter:

Surely the superintendent was notified at that point. The press conference was scheduled for 4:45pm. How does it take 4 hours of being "stuck in traffic" to get to the school?

Even without a press conference, if I was superintendent I'd want to be near the scene as soon as I heard about it. That's what leaders do.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a Magruder teacher if anyone has any questions.

Any information about the victim and the suspect? Not names, just like what grade, what type of students, etc?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist. Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families. By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.

Racism is structural and it's more strongly present in some structures than in others. The cops are a racist structure from the get-go--the idea of modern policing originates in slave patrols. Putting police into a structure like a school, which also has a history of structural racism, is not a great idea...as we can see from all the school shootings in which SROs have cowered, fled, or otherwise been radically ineffective.

Then we should have metal detectors in the schools. No reason not to.

Magruder's principal was my vice principal in middle school (Gaithersburg Middle). We had metal detectors at one point. There were threats of violence between two groups of kids... Laytonsville white boys vs minorities. At least one student was expelled for bringing a weapon (or weapons) to school. The metal detectors were there for us to walk through in the morning and to be let into at least one school dance. I was just a kid, but I think it helped calm things down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Honest to god I am disturbed to my core by this. How had MCPS become this way? How has this county turned into this? How can we bring things back from the brink.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids are still being released from school now. It’s grotesque that they would do this.

Is this the behavior of a sociopath? Denying kids even water. Further traumatizing them so that McKnight could arrive ONE HOUR late to the press conference so she could read her statement for the cameras. How is this putting the health and safety of kids first? I’m disgusted. Everyone should be.

I didn’t hold her responsible for the shooting but if she’s the one that held the kids at school for 5 hours she should be fired tonight!

That won't happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Magruder teacher if anyone has any questions. Kids were very good during the lockdown. Staff were pretty positive. All of us are new to this so it is hard to process it. Felt like a normal day. Lockdown was relaxed with most students just on phones. The worst part by far was not being able to use the restroom.

I agree that communication sucked. They wouldnt even tell us any details even though it’s all over the news/Twitter.

I'm sorry you had to experience this.
Can you confirm:
so no food, drink or bathrooms.
and held an additional hour to wait for the super.
and suspect was among the student body for 2 hours before apprehended (when parents? thought the threat was over)? Did you realize shooter was still at the school?

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Anonymous wrote:There’s just been too many excuses and too much “bad luck” this school year in MCPS. McKnight has proven incapable of keeping our kids safe from COVID or violence.

I feel bad for all these kids who have had to live through this pandemic and now have this trauma on top of it. I hope that MCPS is able to at least provide counseling, if it’s capable of doing anything but I’m not holding out hope.

I’m just absolutely done with the this school system.

Quit your racist drivel. This is NOT McKnight’s fault.

MCPS has been broken for years. Before McKnight came to be in charge.

The buck stops with her.

Must be nice to just blame one’s failures on someone else or just society generally. I would be interested to hear what exactly we are allowed to hold her accountable for.

Did she show up at the school? Is she seeing the students as they are dismissed? Has she said a single word or is she hiding behind MCPS says so her name is not associated with this bad news?

Profiles In Leadership

McKnight: in hiding
BOE: in hiding
Elrich: in hiding
Rice: in hiding
Jawando: in hiding
Hucker: in hiding
Riemer: in hiding

The principal of Chevy Chase ES has had more public comment than all if these county leaders combined.

Maybe they’re busy working the situation at hand? I’d rather folks did actual work to fix things than tweet.