Report of shooting at or near wootton

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Anonymous wrote:Kids with ankle monitors should not be in school with normal kids.

MCPS closed down the juvenile facilities long ago.. not other option. And, define normal. All these kids were "normal" till an incident happened. Many kids go without the mental health and other supports they need.

No they most certainly were not normal. Every time one of these things happens, no ONE is surprised at who did it. The kids know but we try to make the kids into mental health providers telling them to be nice to the kids who scare or hurt them because they are hurt too. We keep pushing back our hard working, we adjusted kids to make room for every broken child such that no one is safe and no one is getting properly educated.

School is not a mental health facility. Anyone with anything beyond mild issue that can be resolved need to be elsewhere for their sake and for the sake of the good kids who just want to go to school and live their lives.

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Has MCPS sent out a statement about this yet? We're not close to the school but our parent community is still talking about it.

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Jeff deleted tendentious posts about race. Only one Montgomery County high school is majority white, a few are majority Hispanic/Latino, while Wootton and the rest have no racial group above 50%. There is no racial lesson in this rare shooting.

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Wootton Principal Dr is a black man. Not sure if that is why moderator deleted anything related to race

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Anonymous wrote:Has MCPS sent out a statement about this yet? We're not close to the school but our parent community is still talking about it.

I haven't seen an MCPS statement, but our principal (at BCC) sent a community message last night, which I appreciated.

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Anonymous wrote:Has MCPS sent out a statement about this yet? We're not close to the school but our parent community is still talking about it.

Lol.

In the past, it is parents at the high schools who had an incident pasting on here the communications they received from mcps or the school administration

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My HS drafted a community letter that is going out at some point today.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS drafted a community letter that is going out at some point today.

Churchill?

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Anonymous wrote:Return SROs - principals NEVER wanted them to be removed. County Executives did it anyways.

They have one. He just happened to not be on site.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2026/02/1-shot-inside-wootton-high-school-in-rockville/

That's because it's not an SRO but a CEO. A CEO does not stay inside the school nor walk the halls unless invited by the Principal. A CEO is shared with the cluster.

Bring back SROs.

No, we don't need police in schools and they don't really stop shit like this from happening, anyway. See Uvalde or Parkland, for example.

Yes, we do. A good officer could shoot the shooter. There are plenty of situations where they do step in and resolve it. The two you are choosing are the worst but there are many times SRO's save lives. Some schools have an officer sitting outside a lot of time. Ours do.

All schools needs metal detectors. The school is huge. An officer cant cover the whole school. They would not have prevented a one off shooting targeting a specific individual. A police officer may be able to reduce the amount of people killed in a mass shooting but most times, they won’t be able to stop a shooting from happening in the first place.

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The WUSA story said that the student had a ghost gun. Not an expert here, but wouldn't a metal detector be useless in that instance? (obviously it would prevent other firearms from getting through....just saying that I don't know if it would have made a difference here).

I personally think that re-instating the SRO program and focusing on prevention is the most critical need here.

No. So-called “ghost guns” typically are comprised of a locally assembled receiver (ordinarily made from polymer like the factory receivers on many modern firearms), combined with other standard parts made of metal. The “ghost” aspect refers not to undetectability by metal detectors but to the absence of a serial number, putatively (but not necessarily practically) useful in tracing crime weapons.

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I often wonder if using explosives dogs would be an option. I don’t know how many people a dog can process or how long they can go without a rest, but they can detect ammunition with amazing alacrity.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS drafted a community letter that is going out at some point today.

Churchill?

Nope. Upcounty

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I also think it’s somewhat unlikely that McPS can manage to have hundreds of metal detectors properly calibrated when they can’t get th hvac system working and their IT is generally a joke. The machines have to be calibrated and staff trained to use them. I’m just skeptical. Google says that in nyc, the metal detectors only find half the guns. I guess that’s something but is it really worth all the kids standing in line for an hour every morning? Plus it doesn’t solve the problem of someone just picking up a gun whole in their way to their portable class — I don’t think nyc schools have portables.

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Anonymous wrote:The only issue I have with metal detectors is the amount of things students are ALLOWED to have that will set them off. It will take like 45-60 minutes to screen kids one by one to enter the building like a TSA process

At JR HS (NW DC) it takes ~ an hour to get students in in the morning

I’m not sure the lives saved through metal detectors would exceed the lives lost through depriving HS kids of an hour of sleep. There’s a lot of evidence showing that decreased sleep for HS kids leads to adverse health outcomes including car accidents.

Additional security officers and SROs seems like a no brainer to me and has th added benefit of allowing them to reopen bathroom.

They also need a better solution for kids that have criminal cases and violent histories. Like maybe virtual school.

Stop it with the SRO's all they do is bring more drugs to schools, prey on young girls and are worthless wanna be cops. Nothing statistacally proven they help.

Better off with metal detectors.

There is no way they would have stopped this or any other gun issue.

We need gun reform in this country unless that happens nothing will change.

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Anonymous wrote:I often wonder if using explosives dogs would be an option. I don’t know how many people a dog can process or how long they can go without a rest, but they can detect ammunition with amazing alacrity.

Braedon is allergic to dogs and Kaytelynne is afraid of them.