West Potomac HS situation

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some interesting comments from Reid, particularly about the teacher walking by:

“It is never acceptable to walk by behavior that is dangerous.”

The absolute nonchalance of that employee is disgusting. The absolute nonchalance of the student body is disturbing.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-schools-weapons-detections-west-potomac-high-school-stabbing-knife-metal-detector-school-resource-officer-fcps-security-system

You can't be serious. Why would a teacher risk their safety for some nonsense. And what did you expect the studrnt body to do? You want more kids stabbed. I tell my kids anytime there is an altercation, be it verbal or physical there is a high likelihood someone has a weapon. Do NOT get involved. I also live by this. I think the teacher did the right thing.

At the time the teacher walked by there was no stabbing going on. Have you even watched the video? I expect a teacher to say "hey, knock it off" and to tell the other students to stop congregating and disperse or at minimum immediately contact an SRO. There is no time of the essence in anyone. So is it Fairfax policy to just snap a photo and casually keep walking?

When your child is in FCPS building the school system is responsible for them. A teacher or administrator is a part of that. I don't expect anyone to jump into a knife fight so GTFOH with that angle. I do expect the adults to be adults. This lord of the flies attitude is insane.

Yes, the kids would have immediately stopped fighting if only an adult said that. Well done!

There is only one way to find out, because doing nothing got nothing. Your kids worth nothing?

My kids worth something. These kids? Maybe. It's their choice, at this point.

You’re questioning whether any of these kids are worth something. HFS. You’re awful.

Are they worth more than me being seriously injured without compensation? Probably not. If you saw a knife fight on the street would you intervene?

Reading must be hard for you: when adults were present, no knife fight was occurring. Read that over and over until that sinks in.

[Anonymous]

What you all saw in the video was known as the “bystander effect.” People standing around and watching something bad happening and doing nothing. It’s a common phenomenon. The male teacher was guilty of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The video is on X. It shows a kid fighting a bunch of people one by one, chaotic as if has no idea what he’s doing in the hallway during what appears to be the time in between classes (?). Then it cuts to him laying on the ground with blood, so the part where he is stabbed is edited out.

The kids are all just standing around, even when the injured kid is laying on the floor. I don’t see anyone rendering aid at all or anyone panicking. If this is real it’s beyond disturbing.

I heard a kid shouting ambulance several times.

[Anonymous]

Reading this makes me think of the death of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago.
I wonder if the same people here criticizing the substitute teacher for not jumping in to break up a stabbing, are the same people who thought the police officer should "throw a net over her" or "shoot the knife out of her hand" in that situation?
It's evident that a lot of posters here have no experience with violent individuals and have unrealistic thoughts about what could and should be done.

[Anonymous]

Just so everyone is aware, FCPS teachers are TRAINED not to intervene due to previous lawsuits and employee discipline that came from parents. You people want it both ways. You want your kid protected, but then you don't want your kid touched if they are the person other students need protected from. Schools are a microcosm of the community they reside in. If you have an issue with your school or school district you need to look no further than your own community to place blame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t worry, no precious adults got hurt. It took students to break up the stabbing. There is even video footage of it on X. A male student (with his backpack still on) is holding back the stabber while he still waves around the knife and is holding it. A child risked their own life to stop this. A child.

This is what we have become, as society, just walk away. Don’t say anything. Don’t do anything. Let the kids kill themselves and don’t intervene. The adults are not responsible.

The child has (legal) protections that adult does not.

Here you go: 2 students holding the kid back while he’s still holding the knife.

I mean, why ever help as an adult at all, just let the kids handle it. WTAF is wrong with you?

https://x.com/davidez1911/status/1915423557137404117?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reading this makes me think of the death of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago.
I wonder if the same people here criticizing the substitute teacher for not jumping in to break up a stabbing, are the same people who thought the police officer should "throw a net over her" or "shoot the knife out of her hand" in that situation?
It's evident that a lot of posters here have no experience with violent individuals and have unrealistic thoughts about what could and should be done.

THERE WAS NO STABBING OR KNIFE INVOLVED WHEN THE SUB WALKS BY AND SNAPS A PHOTO.

yes, I meant to shout.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting comments from Reid, particularly about the teacher walking by:

“It is never acceptable to walk by behavior that is dangerous.”

The absolute nonchalance of that employee is disgusting. The absolute nonchalance of the student body is disturbing.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-schools-weapons-detections-west-potomac-high-school-stabbing-knife-metal-detector-school-resource-officer-fcps-security-system

You can't be serious. Why would a teacher risk their safety for some nonsense. And what did you expect the studrnt body to do? You want more kids stabbed. I tell my kids anytime there is an altercation, be it verbal or physical there is a high likelihood someone has a weapon. Do NOT get involved. I also live by this. I think the teacher did the right thing.

At the time the teacher walked by there was no stabbing going on. Have you even watched the video? I expect a teacher to say "hey, knock it off" and to tell the other students to stop congregating and disperse or at minimum immediately contact an SRO. There is no time of the essence in anyone. So is it Fairfax policy to just snap a photo and casually keep walking?

When your child is in FCPS building the school system is responsible for them. A teacher or administrator is a part of that. I don't expect anyone to jump into a knife fight so GTFOH with that angle. I do expect the adults to be adults. This lord of the flies attitude is insane.

Yes, the kids would have immediately stopped fighting if only an adult said that. Well done!

There is only one way to find out, because doing nothing got nothing. Your kids worth nothing?

My kids worth something. These kids? Maybe. It's their choice, at this point.

You’re questioning whether any of these kids are worth something. HFS. You’re awful.

Are they worth more than me being seriously injured without compensation? Probably not. If you saw a knife fight on the street would you intervene?

Reading must be hard for you: when adults were present, no knife fight was occurring. Read that over and over until that sinks in.

I'm not the PP you quoted.
How do you know what was not visible off camera? Were you there to witness it personally? Are you a child?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some interesting comments from Reid, particularly about the teacher walking by:

“It is never acceptable to walk by behavior that is dangerous.”

The absolute nonchalance of that employee is disgusting. The absolute nonchalance of the student body is disturbing.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-schools-weapons-detections-west-potomac-high-school-stabbing-knife-metal-detector-school-resource-officer-fcps-security-system

You can't be serious. Why would a teacher risk their safety for some nonsense. And what did you expect the studrnt body to do? You want more kids stabbed. I tell my kids anytime there is an altercation, be it verbal or physical there is a high likelihood someone has a weapon. Do NOT get involved. I also live by this. I think the teacher did the right thing.

At the time the teacher walked by there was no stabbing going on. Have you even watched the video? I expect a teacher to say "hey, knock it off" and to tell the other students to stop congregating and disperse or at minimum immediately contact an SRO. There is no time of the essence in anyone. So is it Fairfax policy to just snap a photo and casually keep walking?

When your child is in FCPS building the school system is responsible for them. A teacher or administrator is a part of that. I don't expect anyone to jump into a knife fight so GTFOH with that angle. I do expect the adults to be adults. This lord of the flies attitude is insane.

Yes, the kids would have immediately stopped fighting if only an adult said that. Well done!

There is only one way to find out, because doing nothing got nothing. Your kids worth nothing?

My kids worth something. These kids? Maybe. It's their choice, at this point.

You’re questioning whether any of these kids are worth something. HFS. You’re awful.

Are they worth more than me being seriously injured without compensation? Probably not. If you saw a knife fight on the street would you intervene?

Reading must be hard for you: when adults were present, no knife fight was occurring. Read that over and over until that sinks in.

I'm not the PP you quoted.
How do you know what was not visible off camera? Were you there to witness it personally? Are you a child?

It’s literally in the widely circulated video. My eyes work. Do yours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reading this makes me think of the death of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago.
I wonder if the same people here criticizing the substitute teacher for not jumping in to break up a stabbing, are the same people who thought the police officer should "throw a net over her" or "shoot the knife out of her hand" in that situation?
It's evident that a lot of posters here have no experience with violent individuals and have unrealistic thoughts about what could and should be done.

THERE WAS NO STABBING OR KNIFE INVOLVED WHEN THE SUB WALKS BY AND SNAPS A PHOTO.

yes, I meant to shout.

Calm down, child.
You have no idea who was present a few feet away, unless YOU were present.

[Anonymous]

The red shirt kid’s outfit was so weird. Crop top fitted red shirt, shredded jeans, and awful red shoes. Was this some kind of gang initiation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t worry, no precious adults got hurt. It took students to break up the stabbing. There is even video footage of it on X. A male student (with his backpack still on) is holding back the stabber while he still waves around the knife and is holding it. A child risked their own life to stop this. A child.

This is what we have become, as society, just walk away. Don’t say anything. Don’t do anything. Let the kids kill themselves and don’t intervene. The adults are not responsible.

The child has (legal) protections that adult does not.

Here you go: 2 students holding the kid back while he’s still holding the knife.

I mean, why ever help as an adult at all, just let the kids handle it. WTAF is wrong with you?

https://x.com/davidez1911/status/1915423557137404117?s=46&t=E8qDVnObwqD3VskYpcZ1Jg

And? What do you think this proves in the context of whether adult teachers should physically get involved in student fights?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The red shirt kid’s outfit was so weird. Crop top fitted red shirt, shredded jeans, and awful red shoes. Was this some kind of gang initiation?

I haven't seen the video. Based off your description, it sounds like womens clothing. Was the "red shirt kid" a female?

[Anonymous]

How do we know the teacher was a sub?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The red shirt kid’s outfit was so weird. Crop top fitted red shirt, shredded jeans, and awful red shoes. Was this some kind of gang initiation?

I haven't seen the video. Based off your description, it sounds like womens clothing. Was the "red shirt kid" a female?

No! It was a Hispanic male. I’ve never seen a make with a shirt like that. lol