What's going on at Churchill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

And some of the worse ones apparently have knife-wielding kids, but I don't buy that all schools are the same as a way to mask bad behavior at a fwe.

[Anonymous]

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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.

those kids get away with everything

[Anonymous]

Knife wielding student at WJ today, too, apparently. Off campus during lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Knife wielding student at WJ today, too, apparently. Off campus during lunch.

Hadn't seen that in the news but not really surprised. Those schools are a lot rougher these days.

[Anonymous]

Dd reported that at yesterday's pep rally kids were just up and leaving the school in huge numbers. I asked why teachers didn't stop them and she said that teachers directed them back to the stadium, but these were hoards of kids and the teachers couldn't do anything about it in such large numbers.

Sounds like Churchill needs to be handing out much stricter consequences. I don't care if kids attend pep rallies, but if they are simply ignoring teachers' directions during a normal school day, then there ought to be a penalty-- preferably a stiff one so the kids start respecting authority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dd reported that at yesterday's pep rally kids were just up and leaving the school in huge numbers. I asked why teachers didn't stop them and she said that teachers directed them back to the stadium, but these were hoards of kids and the teachers couldn't do anything about it in such large numbers.

Sounds like Churchill needs to be handing out much stricter consequences. I don't care if kids attend pep rallies, but if they are simply ignoring teachers' directions during a normal school day, then there ought to be a penalty-- preferably a stiff one so the kids start respecting authority.

Should the Pep Rally be a mandatory event? Some students just aren’t that into school spirit. There’s a lot of students who are disconnected especially after the 18 months of online learning.

If you want enforcement, teachers will have to take attendance and attend with a class. Students will still skip but they will be charged the unexcused absence.

[Anonymous]

Haha, kids have been sneaking out of pep rally’s for years. My son and his friends used to do it all the time —- but was harder because it was indoors. Pep rally’s can be insufferable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dd reported that at yesterday's pep rally kids were just up and leaving the school in huge numbers. I asked why teachers didn't stop them and she said that teachers directed them back to the stadium, but these were hoards of kids and the teachers couldn't do anything about it in such large numbers.

Sounds like Churchill needs to be handing out much stricter consequences. I don't care if kids attend pep rallies, but if they are simply ignoring teachers' directions during a normal school day, then there ought to be a penalty-- preferably a stiff one so the kids start respecting authority.

Should the Pep Rally be a mandatory event? Some students just aren’t that into school spirit. There’s a lot of students who are disconnected especially after the 18 months of online learning.

If you want enforcement, teachers will have to take attendance and attend with a class. Students will still skip but they will be charged the unexcused absence.

I couldn't care less if there is a pep rally (though I do like the back-to-normal aspect of doing things they've always done.) But come on. If the school tells students to attend something in the schoolday, the kids should have to attend. Yes, with unexcused absences if they don't. (But then, unexcused absences are meaningless anyway.) It seems like we've moved way down the curve of no accountability for kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haha, kids have been sneaking out of pep rally’s for years. My son and his friends used to do it all the time —- but was harder because it was indoors. Pep rally’s can be insufferable.

It's in a closed stadium. So teachers would just need to escort kids into the stadium. And any kid leaving the stadium would have to 'check out' before they left.

And there are lots of things about school that are insufferable. That doesn't mean kids get to do whatever they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha, kids have been sneaking out of pep rally’s for years. My son and his friends used to do it all the time —- but was harder because it was indoors. Pep rally’s can be insufferable.

It's in a closed stadium. So teachers would just need to escort kids into the stadium. And any kid leaving the stadium would have to 'check out' before they left.

And there are lots of things about school that are insufferable. That doesn't mean kids get to do whatever they want.

Teachers and administrators would have to care enough to take attendance. Most don’t want to be bothered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dd reported that at yesterday's pep rally kids were just up and leaving the school in huge numbers. I asked why teachers didn't stop them and she said that teachers directed them back to the stadium, but these were hoards of kids and the teachers couldn't do anything about it in such large numbers.

Sounds like Churchill needs to be handing out much stricter consequences. I don't care if kids attend pep rallies, but if they are simply ignoring teachers' directions during a normal school day, then there ought to be a penalty-- preferably a stiff one so the kids start respecting authority.

I'd tell my kid to skip a pep rally during covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dd reported that at yesterday's pep rally kids were just up and leaving the school in huge numbers. I asked why teachers didn't stop them and she said that teachers directed them back to the stadium, but these were hoards of kids and the teachers couldn't do anything about it in such large numbers.

Sounds like Churchill needs to be handing out much stricter consequences. I don't care if kids attend pep rallies, but if they are simply ignoring teachers' directions during a normal school day, then there ought to be a penalty-- preferably a stiff one so the kids start respecting authority.

I would tell my child to skip a pep rally during covid. No way.

[Anonymous]

a lot

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School is very dangerous and becoming more so each month

Kids at Churchill are wielding knives this week. Next week it's MS13!

Nope, we'll keep our MS13. Right now they are less violent than the the Churchill kids.

The incident was handled properly and well by the Churchill Principal, school security, and the police; and without SRO's.

Instead of complimenting their work, you write this drivel?

Take a seat, clown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School is very dangerous and becoming more so each month

Kids at Churchill are wielding knives this week. Next week it's MS13!

Nope, we'll keep our MS13. Right now they are less violent than the the Churchill kids.

The incident was handled properly and well by the Churchill Principal, school security, and the police; and without SRO's.

Instead of complimenting their work, you write this drivel?

Take a seat, clown.

Not the poster PP quoted, but I think there are lessons Churchill, MCPS, and the police should take away and improve for student and staff safety.

The police response time was abysmal. 20 minutes is too long. The armed student had a knife. What if next time it is a gun?

Churchill never warned the community that a dangerous event was happening on campus till hours later. This allowed more students to return to campus after lunch. Again, what if this was an active shooter situation? Or a bomb threat? The principal has a way to send Sunday phone calls, emails, and text messages but there’s not a safety alert that is triggered when the school goes on lockdown? Also, why wasn’t the school immediately in lockdown instead of waiting till the end of lunch?

MCPS needs a proactive approach to school security. It was evident last week that there is a huge lack of planning, coordination, and communication that would result in lives lost if the student had used his knife or used a gun. MCPS is just waiting for a mass casualty event to happen before they will take school security seriously.