Northwood outdoor activities suspended due to antisemitism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about stepping up security instead of fencing it off? Surely MCPS and the police can manage this.

There is a shortage of security officers because MCPS probably doesn’t pay them enough.
It is a frustrating job because they have no real power and the kids figure that out really fast

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Safety of the students and school community comes before community use.

Are there any indications of actual safety issues from the vandalism?

A crazy person hanging a hateful flier may become triggered and hurt someone. The facilities are closed to the community not to students participating in MCPS activities. Do you think the school should continue allowing the public to come in and vandalize Northwood?

I am a Northwood parent . I’m concerned about the attention the school is getting from hate groups. Sooner or later, some anti-Semitic right wing nut job won’t be satisfied with flyers and may decide to escalate to physical attacks.

You need to grow up and realize that your assumptions about who is responsible are based on your own biases. There are many, many anti-Semites who do not fit your description. But at least now we know who wrote all of the "RWNJ" posts.

This was my first time using that phrase, so your assumptions are wrong.
Is it your child or loved one distributing the flyers and you think they don’t fit the description?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Telling that people are more upset about the closure than the anti-Semitic attacks.

Not sure it’s “telling,” as much as there’s another thread that goes at length about this topic….

[Anonymous]

Why are schools ever open to the general public? There are hundred of parks, rec centers, private gyms, etc. in MoCo.

Why is this yet another security problem for schools to have to deal with?

If you have no business with the school, you shouldn’t be on school property.

Leave it to people in MoCo to be so entitled they think being able to walk on a track is more important than school safety.

[Anonymous]

Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are schools ever open to the general public? There are hundred of parks, rec centers, private gyms, etc. in MoCo.

Why is this yet another security problem for schools to have to deal with?

If you have no business with the school, you shouldn’t be on school property.

Leave it to people in MoCo to be so entitled they think being able to walk on a track is more important than school safety.

Because they are public facilities.

(I am answering the general question. I do not object to the closure of outdoor facilities at Northwood to the general public in this specific case.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

There's no evidence that the perpetrators were community members and not students.
The school grounds are only open to the public before and after school hours. How is that putting students at risk?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

There's no evidence that the perpetrators were community members and not students.
The school grounds are only open to the public before and after school hours. How is that putting students at risk?

Read the article. There is a small chance it is a student but that’s still very serious a kid is messing around with this level of an organized hate group.

People on this thread keep think this is some dumb teenager drawing a swastika or saying a dumb comment to another student. This is far scarier and organized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

Seems like there are a lot of paid RWNJ-turfers posting here these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

There's no evidence that the perpetrators were community members and not students.
The school grounds are only open to the public before and after school hours. How is that putting students at risk?

Why, specifically, do you find this so problematic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are schools ever open to the general public? There are hundred of parks, rec centers, private gyms, etc. in MoCo.

Why is this yet another security problem for schools to have to deal with?

If you have no business with the school, you shouldn’t be on school property.

Leave it to people in MoCo to be so entitled they think being able to walk on a track is more important than school safety.

Renting the gyms and fields has been a money maker for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

There's no evidence that the perpetrators were community members and not students.
The school grounds are only open to the public before and after school hours. How is that putting students at risk?

Someone could place an IED or Bobby trap or something else harmful that could go off during school hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either people responded without understanding the situation, or they are just trolls trying to stir trouble.

The school wants to support and protect the kids. It remains open as normal for all students and all approved MCPS activities.

However, it is closed to outside groups coming in to try to rein in/eliminate the hateful attacks. No reasonable person would be against such an action. The school is a school, first. If offering access to the property to the broader (basically anonymous) community at large is putting students at risk, the right thing to do is to limit community access.

There's no evidence that the perpetrators were community members and not students.
The school grounds are only open to the public before and after school hours. How is that putting students at risk?

Someone could place an IED or Bobby trap or something else harmful that could go off during school hours.

Autocorrect changed booby to Bobby.