Incident at Bradley Hills - Are our MCPS kids safe?

[Anonymous]

FWIW metal detectors for little kids aren’t traumatizing. My kids attended a Jewish preschool, and both they and their bags went through one every day, as did every other person who entered the building. The security people attending the metal detectors were friendly and my kids enjoyed giving them fist bumps!

I think this is one PART of the solution, and so is armed security both inside and outside of the building.

In DC parents can fundraise for supplemental teaching and enrichment staff. Why can’t we fundraise for extra security here, if the county won’t cover it? We have a police staffing shortage in the county (about 12% of posted positions are vacant).

[Anonymous]

Kids who did the fire were the same kids that spray painted 100%. They have a tiktok account that shows them doing it. it was reported to the police and has been taken down I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who did the fire were the same kids that spray painted 100%. They have a tiktok account that shows them doing it. it was reported to the police and has been taken down I believe.

Who TF are these shitheads?!?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who did the fire were the same kids that spray painted 100%. They have a tiktok account that shows them doing it. it was reported to the police and has been taken down I believe.

I don’t think so. It was confirmed by police that a man walking a dog burned the shed. Perhaps the kids saw how freaked out people were by that, and then decided to do the graffiti. The tik-tok is true. My kid saw it as well.

[Anonymous]

Your kids are just as safe at MCPS as they are going with you to the grocery store or Target or Montgomery Mall. Grafiti and burning a shed doesn’t demonstrate anyone has a gun or a plan to use it. We live in the society we live in and there’s no magical solution that makes you, your kid, or anyone else “safe” from a random attacker with a gun.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids who did the fire were the same kids that spray painted 100%. They have a tiktok account that shows them doing it. it was reported to the police and has been taken down I believe.

I don’t think so. It was confirmed by police that a man walking a dog burned the shed. Perhaps the kids saw how freaked out people were by that, and then decided to do the graffiti. The tik-tok is true. My kid saw it as well.

What did the tik tok show? Someone burning down the shed or just the aftermath of it? Anyone could have walked up the next day and filmed the charred remains of the shed.

In any event, has someone reported it to the police?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kids are just as safe at MCPS as they are going with you to the grocery store or Target or Montgomery Mall. Grafiti and burning a shed doesn’t demonstrate anyone has a gun or a plan to use it. We live in the society we live in and there’s no magical solution that makes you, your kid, or anyone else “safe” from a random attacker with a gun.

It might be true in general that kids are as safe at school as they are at the store. But, now we have someone who spray painted school shooting graffiti and burned down a shed at the school playground, at one particular school. It's not just an abstract idea of potential harm. There is someone repeatedly going to the school and actually doing those things in the real world.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As an MCPS teacher, no we are not safe. My children attend MCPS school too. We are sitting ducks for the next psycho who comes to school with a gun. All they have to do is walk up to any back locked exterior door, break the glass of the window, let themselves in to the building. They would have at least 3 minutes uninterrupted access to children and staff until police arrived. No one likes to talk about this but it's 100 percent fact.

I know the liberals are gonna freak out when I say this....but if we had armed security guards at school, that would make all the difference.

PP, I agree, and I’m very liberal — closer to AOC than Biden. I wish we had two armed security guards at my kids’ MCPS every day.

I’d station them at the front doors during drop off & dismissal, at the playground during recess, and one indoors one outdoors during the rest of the day.

The student-teacher staffing ratio during lunch and recess should also be cut in half. It’s currently 50:1. How can that possibly be safe?

I hope everyone’s reading this emails your County reps today to request more in-person security at MCPS schools at all levels. Posting here is step 1. Emailing your reps is step 2. Talking to other parents at your school about their also advocating is step 3. Staying on top of your county reps is step 4.

I can think of no issue more important and critical than this.

That’s a plan for ES, that doesn’t keep in mind schools with playgrounds on two sides of the building. Also doesn’t work for HS with multiple entrances that students go in and out of multiple times per day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's more than concerning. Someone tried to burn down a shed with PE equipment but wasn't successful. Then, they came back the next night and succeeded in burning it down. Then, they (or someone) came back a week later and spraypainted Sandy Hook graffiti at the school. And the response from MCPS and MCPD is some platitudes about taking it seriously. We should see more concrete steps and reasons to believe they're going to keep our kids safe.

Yeah, this was unheard of in Montgomery County a few decades ago. Montgomery County schools were the best in the nation. Current conditions brought to you by the Progressive agenda. Are we having fun yet?

[Anonymous]

The principal emailed last night about additional graffiti found last night on the soccer field, but it's not clear if that was school shooting-related too. I presume it must be, or it wouldn't have merited another email.

[Anonymous]

I would encourage all BHES parents to volunteer for extra recess duty until we break for summer. Many of us work from home and could head over during lunch break. Make sure to bring your photo id to the office and have watched the mcps parent volunteer training video .

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Anonymous wrote:The principal emailed last night about additional graffiti found last night on the soccer field, but it's not clear if that was school shooting-related too. I presume it must be, or it wouldn't have merited another email.

What was on the soccer field?

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Whatd it say on the soccer field

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an MCPS teacher, no we are not safe. My children attend MCPS school too. We are sitting ducks for the next psycho who comes to school with a gun. All they have to do is walk up to any back locked exterior door, break the glass of the window, let themselves in to the building. They would have at least 3 minutes uninterrupted access to children and staff until police arrived. No one likes to talk about this but it's 100 percent fact.

I know the liberals are gonna freak out when I say this....but if we had armed security guards at school, that would make all the difference.

Armed rent a cop? Police working overtime who fall asleep w coffee and a donut. Schools aren’t prisons. Nothing to do with my politics. You want your little karla to go through the metal detector and be wanted?

I want my Karla, Karla and Karla to go through metal detectors and have armed guards there. I want my kids to come home alive. The teacher is right.

This. Metal detectors at the only entrances into school. Armed police. Deter bad acts, catch bad guys, closer steps to kids coming home from school alive.

And the county wonders why so many kids have dropped out of MCPS schools…. If I could afford $60k/year per kid, I’d be sending my kids to private…

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatd it say on the soccer field

The same thing as the tennis court.