Churchill online threat

[Anonymous]

Oh man. That poor falsely-accused kid. How completely traumatic this must have been for him and his family. I wish them the best of luck, and if there is anyway for the public to help them, I’d love to hear about it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Principal Taylor is all talk but no action. He is a ladder climber waiting for the next promotion and he is just a mouthpiece for Central Office.

Completely disagree. He's one of the good ones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Principal Taylor is all talk but no action. He is a ladder climber waiting for the next promotion and he is just a mouthpiece for Central Office.

Completely disagree. He's one of the good ones.

Based on what? How Mr. Taylor handled the knife incident? Or how Mr. Taylor rushed to judgement in his first two emails before sending out the update that the special needs student was the victim of bullying? Or how Mr. Taylor has addressed student behavior including bullying this school year? Or how Mr. Taylor has led Churchill in being compliant with the ADA, Section 504, and the IDEA so disabled students at Churchill have equal educational opportunities at Churchill?

Please share specifically why you think he is “one of the good ones”. Based on the above, I think Mr. Taylor is doing a horrible job as Principal and he has largely ignored the issues of students with disabilities at Churchill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. That poor falsely-accused kid. How completely traumatic this must have been for him and his family. I wish them the best of luck, and if there is anyway for the public to help them, I’d love to hear about it

That's terrible!

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone with kids at Churchill keeping their kids home tomorrow?

My kids know several students who are not going in tomorrow.

COVID poses a bigger concern for safety. 127 cases right now at Churchill. That’s a good reason to keep kids home.

Do you even hear yourself. Go to a covid thread to discuss that

Between COVID and the knife-wielding crazies, Churchill seems to have fallen on hard times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh man. That poor falsely-accused kid. How completely traumatic this must have been for him and his family. I wish them the best of luck, and if there is anyway for the public to help them, I’d love to hear about it

Poor kid! I really hope his parents knew immediately it wasn’t true. It must have terrible.

[Anonymous]

I hope who ever interviewed the kid for MCPS and the police were sensitive to his disabilities.

[Anonymous]

Churchill has had 3 principals in 5 years. Bullying is still interwoven in the culture of the school. It’s not a school where everyone feels welcome and it’s traumatizing to a child when they become the target. Bullying and harassment forms are swept under the rug.

So sorry for what this student went through. There was a presumption of guilt before the investigation was concluded. It’s one thing to be bullied by students. It’s another thing when adults pile on.

[Anonymous]

MCPS Central Office leadership is part of the problem. From the N word card to this. There’s no follow through with a plan to improve the school climate. Central Office approved Mr. Taylor’s emails so there also was a rush to judgement by Central Office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the real perpetrator shouldn't be punished. He absolutely should be and should be expelled for the rest of the year. No arguments from me.

But what I'm asking is how you would have handled the threat differently?

On Saturday, May 28 there was a message posted on a kid's social media account that he was going to bring a gun and bomb to school on Tuesday. It seems like police/the principal found out about it on Sunday, May 29 and notified the school community.

I am assuming the student whose social media had the threat was not allowed to come to school on Tuesday, May 31st.

Police did an investigation.

On Thursday, June 2 the investigation concluded that the kid was actually a victim and someone else posted the threatening message on his social media account.

Tell me this, wise parents of DCUM - if you were the principal and such an incident occurred under your watch, knowing the police are investigating and investigations aren't complete in short amounts of time - would you really let the student on whose social media account had the threat be allowed to attend school that Tuesday?

Yes the real jerk needs to be punished. We all agree but in a situation like that...you would let the first student back to school on Tuesday? What if he really did post that message and did cause violence? How could you know for certain?

When such an event occurred at Tpms, the highly -regarded principal interviewed the accused for three hours alone in a room until the child was hysterical. And then called the parents to ask why their child was hysterical.

The child was found innocent. Was innocent. Oh, I believe she did hold a "very special assembly" that was supposed to address the issue.

The bullying continued for the rest of the year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If that was my child who was falsely accused, I would sue the family of the perpetrators and MCPS.

Exactly. And the perpetrator needs to be expelled and required to do community service that is aimed at the special needs community. This is criminal and immoral behavior, and if the high school student doesn’t receive strong, appropriate consequences now, then he has little opportunity to learn from his mistakes and not commit similar actions in the future as an adult. It’s the responsibility of adults to protect the victim and teach the perpetrator never to commit such a heinous act again.

Good luck getting that information from MCPS. We tried and got threats.

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Anonymous wrote:If that was my child who was falsely accused, I would sue the family of the perpetrators and MCPS.

Exactly. And the perpetrator needs to be expelled and required to do community service that is aimed at the special needs community. This is criminal and immoral behavior, and if the high school student doesn’t receive strong, appropriate consequences now, then he has little opportunity to learn from his mistakes and not commit similar actions in the future as an adult. It’s the responsibility of adults to protect the victim and teach the perpetrator never to commit such a heinous act again.

Good luck getting that information from MCPS. We tried and got threats.

Threats of what? From whom?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If that was my child who was falsely accused, I would sue the family of the perpetrators and MCPS.

Exactly. And the perpetrator needs to be expelled and required to do community service that is aimed at the special needs community. This is criminal and immoral behavior, and if the high school student doesn’t receive strong, appropriate consequences now, then he has little opportunity to learn from his mistakes and not commit similar actions in the future as an adult. It’s the responsibility of adults to protect the victim and teach the perpetrator never to commit such a heinous act again.

Good luck getting that information from MCPS. We tried and got threats.

Threats of what? From whom?

NP Our family was retaliated by school staff at our school.

[Anonymous]

Fwiw I heard about a similar incident at a relative's HS in NYC - they later figured it out that it was a bot. This is not my relative's school, but it sounds like the same story they related: https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/second-brooklyn-private-school-shooting-threat-spurs-nypd-probe

Point 2: I have a MS kid in MCPS who was the subject of a totally false rumor that he had used a racial slur. The school investigated and exonerated my kid, but I had the impression from some things that were said by the school administration that it wasn't the first time kids made up allegations against one another as a means of bullying. My MS kid does not have SN but he is by his own admission not among the popular kids. After the rumor, and even after he was cleared by the school, he was scared to go back to school.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone with kids at Churchill keeping their kids home tomorrow?

My kids know several students who are not going in tomorrow.

COVID poses a bigger concern for safety. 127 cases right now at Churchill. That’s a good reason to keep kids home.

Do you even hear yourself. Go to a covid thread to discuss that

Between COVID and the knife-wielding crazies, Churchill seems to have fallen on hard times.

It's sad that the W's have gone so far downhill.