Gun recovered at Northwood High school??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring goin silver spring. Not that it couldn’t happen anywhere but 19 out 20 times is a pattern. Sad thing is that kid has been a neg presence to his peers for years, this is the solution to the problem but there are many of him left inside the schools 1% smarter who will not be removed. East county parents arguing about the rights of a few stem kid’s (they have never met) ability to take a hard Chem class while the general pop is a mess. Get what you pay for in life

It is not just Silver Spring. It's where there's concentrated pockets of poverty within the county. These patterns are consistent in Silver Spring, Germantown and Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg.

We have poor people who are struggling with poverty, instability, family disruption, and they turn to crime, such as drug dealing or gangs, to cope with those adversities.

This is not new and MCPS and the county supposedly have an onslaught of social services to support and stabilize those families, but clearly they're failing.

Stop pretending like the W schools and BCC don't have their own violence. Be real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When Magruder had the shooting a few years ago, that was a ghost gun too.
Schools are not safe.

+1 especially Magruder. At least our kids aren’t in that war zone. However, something needs to be done about Northwood before it turns into a Magruder.

It already is.
Three teachers resigned on Monday.

Three Magruder teachers.

Uhh. This is misrepresenting things a bit. Three teachers RETIRED Dec 1st.

They planned in advanced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring goin silver spring. Not that it couldn’t happen anywhere but 19 out 20 times is a pattern. Sad thing is that kid has been a neg presence to his peers for years, this is the solution to the problem but there are many of him left inside the schools 1% smarter who will not be removed. East county parents arguing about the rights of a few stem kid’s (they have never met) ability to take a hard Chem class while the general pop is a mess. Get what you pay for in life

It is not just Silver Spring. It's where there's concentrated pockets of poverty within the county. These patterns are consistent in Silver Spring, Germantown and Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg.

We have poor people who are struggling with poverty, instability, family disruption, and they turn to crime, such as drug dealing or gangs, to cope with those adversities.

This is not new and MCPS and the county supposedly have an onslaught of social services to support and stabilize those families, but clearly they're failing.

The hard streets of Montgomery County have driven many to crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring goin silver spring. Not that it couldn’t happen anywhere but 19 out 20 times is a pattern. Sad thing is that kid has been a neg presence to his peers for years, this is the solution to the problem but there are many of him left inside the schools 1% smarter who will not be removed. East county parents arguing about the rights of a few stem kid’s (they have never met) ability to take a hard Chem class while the general pop is a mess. Get what you pay for in life

It is not just Silver Spring. It's where there's concentrated pockets of poverty within the county. These patterns are consistent in Silver Spring, Germantown and Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg.

We have poor people who are struggling with poverty, instability, family disruption, and they turn to crime, such as drug dealing or gangs, to cope with those adversities.

This is not new and MCPS and the county supposedly have an onslaught of social services to support and stabilize those families, but clearly they're failing.

The hard streets of Montgomery County have driven many to crime.

This would have been funny up until about 1989. MoCo isn't all peaches, cream and Potomac

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring goin silver spring. Not that it couldn’t happen anywhere but 19 out 20 times is a pattern. Sad thing is that kid has been a neg presence to his peers for years, this is the solution to the problem but there are many of him left inside the schools 1% smarter who will not be removed. East county parents arguing about the rights of a few stem kid’s (they have never met) ability to take a hard Chem class while the general pop is a mess. Get what you pay for in life

It is not just Silver Spring. It's where there's concentrated pockets of poverty within the county. These patterns are consistent in Silver Spring, Germantown and Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg.

We have poor people who are struggling with poverty, instability, family disruption, and they turn to crime, such as drug dealing or gangs, to cope with those adversities.

This is not new and MCPS and the county supposedly have an onslaught of social services to support and stabilize those families, but clearly they're failing.

The hard streets of Montgomery County have driven many to crime.

This would have been funny up until about 1989. MoCo isn't all peaches, cream and Potomac

Let’s be real; if people in MoCo are dealing drugs or joining gangs it’s a choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kid wasn’t zoned for northwood based on his home address in the arrests database. Was he put there after getting in trouble at his previous school?

It is possible he was in the SESES program. You don’t have to be from the neighborhood to be in that special program. I don’t know if he was or wasn’t. Just saying it would explain why he was at Northwood if he didn’t live in the boundary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver Spring goin silver spring. Not that it couldn’t happen anywhere but 19 out 20 times is a pattern. Sad thing is that kid has been a neg presence to his peers for years, this is the solution to the problem but there are many of him left inside the schools 1% smarter who will not be removed. East county parents arguing about the rights of a few stem kid’s (they have never met) ability to take a hard Chem class while the general pop is a mess. Get what you pay for in life

It is not just Silver Spring. It's where there's concentrated pockets of poverty within the county. These patterns are consistent in Silver Spring, Germantown and Montgomery Village/Gaithersburg.

We have poor people who are struggling with poverty, instability, family disruption, and they turn to crime, such as drug dealing or gangs, to cope with those adversities.

This is not new and MCPS and the county supposedly have an onslaught of social services to support and stabilize those families, but clearly they're failing.

The hard streets of Montgomery County have driven many to crime.

This would have been funny up until about 1989. MoCo isn't all peaches, cream and Potomac

Seriously. MoCo is not Baltimore or Southeast but it’s also not what it used to be. There is serious crime, death and violence happening in the county in ways that weren’t happening in the past.

For example: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/01/two-suspects-north-bethesda-homicide-kidnapping-2/

[Anonymous]

Is Principal Jonathan Garrick the principal from last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Principal Jonathan Garrick the principal from last year?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Parents need to f ing elevate this!

And about the irresponsible decisions made this week delaying or not delaying schools. Contact your ELECTED STATE delagates and senators! ontact your ELECTED Congresspersons! They work for YOU!

And

Sign the petition to me school campuses "safer." The link to the petition is on the fourth post of this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1259637.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents need to f ing elevate this!

And about the irresponsible decisions made this week delaying or not delaying schools. Contact your ELECTED STATE delagates and senators! ontact your ELECTED Congresspersons! They work for YOU!

And

Sign the petition to me school campuses "safer." The link to the petition is on the fourth post of this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1259637.page

WTF does Congress have to do with this? What federal law do you think applies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The kid wasn’t zoned for northwood based on his home address in the arrests database. Was he put there after getting in trouble at his previous school?

But how is this possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid wasn’t zoned for northwood based on his home address in the arrests database. Was he put there after getting in trouble at his previous school?

But how is this possible?

Or he could have parents who live separately, and one of them is zoned for Northwood. Or they got a COSA for some reason. There are possibilities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weapons detectors will not solve the guns in school issue. PG has them and they still have gun issues.

Example: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/police/charles-herbert-flowers-lockdown-gun-was-found-on-school-grounds/65-a4750726-f8eb-425c-afe4-607caba31fa9

So your answer is to do nothing until a student or teacher is seriously hurt or worse?

We spend billions on technology for airports and borders and still kids are able to get past it sometimes. Drugs and weapons still find a way onto planes, trains, and to cross the border. Its not about not doing nothing, but not over reacting and believing that one piece of technology is going to solve a societal problem.

Technology should be part of the solution. It is not 100% effective but it is a tool that should be used in addition to other safeguarding measures. We need metal detectors asap. And more trained security guards.

Technology is already part of the solution, just not metal detectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents need to f ing elevate this!

And about the irresponsible decisions made this week delaying or not delaying schools. Contact your ELECTED STATE delagates and senators! ontact your ELECTED Congresspersons! They work for YOU!

And

Sign the petition to me school campuses "safer." The link to the petition is on the fourth post of this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1259637.page

WTF does Congress have to do with this? What federal law do you think applies?

Contact Rep Jamie Raskin. He is a Congressperson from Montgomery County. Contact Send Chris Vanhollen. You won't know unless you advocate and organize.