Magruder HS Shooting

[Anonymous]

Dr. McKnight made me sick when she stood up at a news conference with national media to say how safe MCPS schools are. What she wants to point to as safe schools includes a record of what schools were like before her leadership as interim superintendent, with 18 months of schools shuttered, and before SROs were removed from schools. We are only halfway through the school year. How many fights have been reported in schools? How many times have schools been put on lockdown? The other incidents were knives. Now it’s a gun.

Dr. McKnight seems to ignore the increase in safety problems and the severity of the incidents. Enough is enough of a failed MCPS liberal experiment. Bring back SROs.

[Anonymous]

"At 1:21 p.m. — 28 minutes after the initial discovery by school security — a sheriff's deputy radioed dispatched requesting additional units but stated they did not have to come with their lights and sirens activated."

The timeline kind of skips over exactly when the first officer arrived on the scene. Does this mean the sheriff's deputy was there and radioed?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://wjla.com/news/local/magruder-high-school-derwood-shooting-student-bathroom-montgomery-county-public-schools-lockdown-police-officers-mcknight

This timeline is extremely disturbing.

Wow. I am totally shook at the timeline and misinformation from MCPS after a shooting at Magruder.

The knee jerk reaction was to attempt passing off a shooting as a medical emergency???? What type of BS MCPS Administrator training teaches principals to not be upfront and honest with the community that a student had been shot in the school bathroom???? This is why parents no longer have any trust in MCPS. Flat out deceptive lies.

A situation of the magnitude of a shooting is why SROs need to be in schools. MCPS cares jack sh$t about safety of students and staff. They are complete idiots that didn’t recognize the severity of the situation of a critically injured student in their bathroom. What would the reaction and call to dispatch have been if an SRO been on the scene to begin with? I bet all of the squad cars would have had lights on and swat there in a heartbeat because a uniformed police officer would fully report the magnitude of the situation one she/he has eyes on it.

I pray to God that the Board of Ed comes to its senses and bring SROs back into schools and look into why administrators time in and time out are dishonest when issues occur on their watch.

Honest question, what would a SRO have done in this situation?

Not that poster but SROs were good at interacting with kids and seeing which kids had beefs with other kids. And they could prevent fights by talking the kids through their disagreements in a way that led to violence prevention. Not all violence. But isn’t there value in even one kid not getting beaten up or worse???

[Anonymous]

McKnight is basking in the attention. Nothing constructive came out of her presence.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it too soon to discuss the fact that monifa grabbed her pink coat with the leapord print collar instead of something more appropriate for the situation

With the matching pink mask. She was an hour late which delayed the kids being released but that delay was important, because she had to look good for cameras.

You can’t be serious, right?

I wish I was. She was an hour late for the press conference photo op and purposefully delayed the release of the kids but she definitely had time to make sure that that her pink mask matched her pink coat with the animal print collar. It provides a small window into what her priorities are and it’s clearly not the kids.

Sounds like a conspiracy. Hmmm

The guy next to her is wearing a pink tie so I hope you’re outraged at his choice as well.

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Anonymous wrote:https://wjla.com/news/local/magruder-high-school-derwood-shooting-student-bathroom-montgomery-county-public-schools-lockdown-police-officers-mcknight

This timeline is extremely disturbing.

Wow. I am totally shook at the timeline and misinformation from MCPS after a shooting at Magruder.

The knee jerk reaction was to attempt passing off a shooting as a medical emergency???? What type of BS MCPS Administrator training teaches principals to not be upfront and honest with the community that a student had been shot in the school bathroom???? This is why parents no longer have any trust in MCPS. Flat out deceptive lies.

A situation of the magnitude of a shooting is why SROs need to be in schools. MCPS cares jack sh$t about safety of students and staff. They are complete idiots that didn’t recognize the severity of the situation of a critically injured student in their bathroom. What would the reaction and call to dispatch have been if an SRO been on the scene to begin with? I bet all of the squad cars would have had lights on and swat there in a heartbeat because a uniformed police officer would fully report the magnitude of the situation one she/he has eyes on it.

I pray to God that the Board of Ed comes to its senses and bring SROs back into schools and look into why administrators time in and time out are dishonest when issues occur on their watch.

Honest question, what would a SRO have done in this situation?

Call for police backup, not community response.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://wjla.com/news/local/magruder-high-school-derwood-shooting-student-bathroom-montgomery-county-public-schools-lockdown-police-officers-mcknight

This timeline is extremely disturbing.

Wow. I am totally shook at the timeline and misinformation from MCPS after a shooting at Magruder.

The knee jerk reaction was to attempt passing off a shooting as a medical emergency???? What type of BS MCPS Administrator training teaches principals to not be upfront and honest with the community that a student had been shot in the school bathroom???? This is why parents no longer have any trust in MCPS. Flat out deceptive lies.

A situation of the magnitude of a shooting is why SROs need to be in schools. MCPS cares jack sh$t about safety of students and staff. They are complete idiots that didn’t recognize the severity of the situation of a critically injured student in their bathroom. What would the reaction and call to dispatch have been if an SRO been on the scene to begin with? I bet all of the squad cars would have had lights on and swat there in a heartbeat because a uniformed police officer would fully report the magnitude of the situation one she/he has eyes on it.

I pray to God that the Board of Ed comes to its senses and bring SROs back into schools and look into why administrators time in and time out are dishonest when issues occur on their watch.

Honest question, what would a SRO have done in this situation?

Call for police backup, not community response.

+1 immediately, not wait several minute. SROs are trained to identify, manage and respond to such incidents as part of being a cop. This is not the primary training for school admins.

[Anonymous]

Don’t high schools have security guards?

[Anonymous]

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I pray to God that the Board of Ed comes to its senses and bring SROs back into schools and look into why administrators time in and time out are dishonest when issues occur on their watch.

SROs were removed by County Council (by removing funding), not by BOE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"At 1:21 p.m. — 28 minutes after the initial discovery by school security — a sheriff's deputy radioed dispatched requesting additional units but stated they did not have to come with their lights and sirens activated."

The timeline kind of skips over exactly when the first officer arrived on the scene. Does this mean the sheriff's deputy was there and radioed?

And why teh Sheriff? In MoCo, the Sheriff serves warrants and oversees evictions. The police do law enforcement. The sheriff probably wasn't trained in any of this, because it's not part of their normal duties.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/sheriff/

[Anonymous]

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I pray to God that the Board of Ed comes to its senses and bring SROs back into schools and look into why administrators time in and time out are dishonest when issues occur on their watch.

SROs were removed by County Council (by removing funding), not by BOE.

No. Elrich unilaterally did it against police chief’s wishes. There were council people who wanted them gone too. But Elrich is the boss of the police department

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"At 1:21 p.m. — 28 minutes after the initial discovery by school security — a sheriff's deputy radioed dispatched requesting additional units but stated they did not have to come with their lights and sirens activated."

The timeline kind of skips over exactly when the first officer arrived on the scene. Does this mean the sheriff's deputy was there and radioed?

And why teh Sheriff? In MoCo, the Sheriff serves warrants and oversees evictions. The police do law enforcement. The sheriff probably wasn't trained in any of this, because it's not part of their normal duties.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/sheriff/

The sheriff is part of the Sro program and is assigned to Magruder

Yes they have all the same special training

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to the School Nurse. Read Ehrlich’s tweet sounds like she was great at her job as school first responder.

Agreed. I'm not a fan of Elrich, but his response was what I'd expect from a leader. McKnight's was not -- she didn't even acknowledge the nurse.

Yes. Elrich is a clear thinker. She's not. The Principal of Magruder most decidedly is not.

I don't fault the principal on this. They're not all the way at the top. I expect leadership qualities like that from county exec or superintendent, but we have 150+ principals at MCPS, generally former teachers. They are not trained nor raised to be leaders at that level.

Agreed - Dr. Evans is very good, and most parents we speak with at the school agree. Whatever panic was perceived is simply second hand and up for interpretation. It is confirmed that there was no yelling, or mistakes in protocol / leadership.

Eight minutes between calling 911 and locking down the school is a mistake in protocol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"At 1:21 p.m. — 28 minutes after the initial discovery by school security — a sheriff's deputy radioed dispatched requesting additional units but stated they did not have to come with their lights and sirens activated."

The timeline kind of skips over exactly when the first officer arrived on the scene. Does this mean the sheriff's deputy was there and radioed?

And why teh Sheriff? In MoCo, the Sheriff serves warrants and oversees evictions. The police do law enforcement. The sheriff probably wasn't trained in any of this, because it's not part of their normal duties.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/sheriff/

The sheriff is part of the Sro program and is assigned to Magruder

Yes they have all the same special training

Can you explain? I’m under the impression there is no SRO program for a sheriff to be assigned to. Also, the sheriffs are not the same as MCPD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Shout out to the School Nurse. Read Ehrlich’s tweet sounds like she was great at her job as school first responder.

Agreed. I'm not a fan of Elrich, but his response was what I'd expect from a leader. McKnight's was not -- she didn't even acknowledge the nurse.

Yes. Elrich is a clear thinker. She's not. The Principal of Magruder most decidedly is not.

I don't fault the principal on this. They're not all the way at the top. I expect leadership qualities like that from county exec or superintendent, but we have 150+ principals at MCPS, generally former teachers. They are not trained nor raised to be leaders at that level.

Agreed - Dr. Evans is very good, and most parents we speak with at the school agree. Whatever panic was perceived is simply second hand and up for interpretation. It is confirmed that there was no yelling, or mistakes in protocol / leadership.

Eight minutes between calling 911 and locking down the school is a mistake in protocol.

Dr. Evans has a history of failing to follow protocols.