Herndon High

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

[Anonymous]

What was going on in Herndon earlier this evening? I woke up to helicopter noise and saw that the FCPD chapter had been doing loops over Elden St or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

That is because the principal, who has been a progressive darling in FCPS, keeps mum on most of these kinds of details. Her email posted earlier in this thread is the most parents have ever gotten and it omits some key points (eg, he was murdered). Also, this info is not shared directly with students unless parents share the email with the kids. The fact that contact with the school was made a month before this child’s death is …. I’ll leave it at that unless and until more details are shared publically from official sources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

That is because the principal, who has been a progressive darling in FCPS, keeps mum on most of these kinds of details. Her email posted earlier in this thread is the most parents have ever gotten and it omits some key points (eg, he was murdered). Also, this info is not shared directly with students unless parents share the email with the kids. The fact that contact with the school was made a month before this child’s death is …. I’ll leave it at that unless and until more details are shared publically from official sources.

Adding I do feel a bit for Noto of this is a first of its kind situation, but there seems to be a lot of effort expended to keep hush about numerous issues in order to not attract bad publicity in FCPS, included lauded over HHS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

Kinda, except if the student body is not officially told anything, how would they know? The schools are so big, kids maybe know 1/4 to 1/3 of their classmates. Yet, FCPS keeps expanding schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

If someone had been murder at my high school by a classmate, that would have been the defining moment of my childhood. I guess HHS families are numb to the violence at this point?

That the FCPS email didn’t say it was a homicide is telling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is a senior at Herndon. She has heard about these crimes, but at this point is more concerned about getting her college apps in, doing well on exams and not getting hurt at practice.

And that's where we are as a society.

Shrugging off teen murder.

If a kid in my high school had gotten murdered, there would be assemblies and encouragement for children to go to the guidance counselor.


At Herndon in this day and age, it's "Oh a classmate got murdered. That's wild. Anyway, let me remember to stretch my quads before hitting the track for warmups."

This is only surprising to you because this is the suburbs. In DC when someone is shot the first thing most people ask is whether the murder and victim(s) knew each other. If the answer was "yes" and it was gang or street related, you go about your day as usual. It's unfortunate that there is enough violence at that high school for this attitude to become the norm.

[Anonymous]

FCPS only interest in students is to have them show up to get funding, which they then mismanage.

Reid could lent one of her security detail to the school.

[Anonymous]

DP. My position is that I don't want to continue to subsidize transporting your kids all the way across the county because you can't be bothered to fix the problems in your own neighborhood. I hope that Reid is able to follow through with her thought to remove taxpayer provided transportation from the far west end of the county all the way to the east. Then if the population grows as predicted in Tysons and Langley is overcrowded I hope they do the right thing and rezone those 2 miles from Herndon to fill the spots in their own neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Look at how long some of these upper level leaders in FCPS have been in their positions in these specific schools. Herndon and South Lakes both with new principals who both seem lacking in actual leadership. I can go on for days about the incompetence of Principal Seward and the damage he's doing at South Lakes but won't as this is about Herndon. Even the executive principal, who is over both schools, is newer to his role. FCPS is not what it once was. The Herndon principal should have written a better and more precise email of what transpired with the student. She did the school and the victim's family a disservice by making it sound like a suicide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at how long some of these upper level leaders in FCPS have been in their positions in these specific schools. Herndon and South Lakes both with new principals who both seem lacking in actual leadership. I can go on for days about the incompetence of Principal Seward and the damage he's doing at South Lakes but won't as this is about Herndon. Even the executive principal, who is over both schools, is newer to his role. FCPS is not what it once was. The Herndon principal should have written a better and more precise email of what transpired with the student. She did the school and the victim's family a disservice by making it sound like a suicide.

I still think Gatehouse had a part in that letter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at how long some of these upper level leaders in FCPS have been in their positions in these specific schools. Herndon and South Lakes both with new principals who both seem lacking in actual leadership. I can go on for days about the incompetence of Principal Seward and the damage he's doing at South Lakes but won't as this is about Herndon. Even the executive principal, who is over both schools, is newer to his role. FCPS is not what it once was. The Herndon principal should have written a better and more precise email of what transpired with the student. She did the school and the victim's family a disservice by making it sound like a suicide.

I still think Gatehouse had a part in that letter.

What is Gatehouse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at how long some of these upper level leaders in FCPS have been in their positions in these specific schools. Herndon and South Lakes both with new principals who both seem lacking in actual leadership. I can go on for days about the incompetence of Principal Seward and the damage he's doing at South Lakes but won't as this is about Herndon. Even the executive principal, who is over both schools, is newer to his role. FCPS is not what it once was. The Herndon principal should have written a better and more precise email of what transpired with the student. She did the school and the victim's family a disservice by making it sound like a suicide.

I still think Gatehouse had a part in that letter.

What is Gatehouse?

FCPS headquarters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at how long some of these upper level leaders in FCPS have been in their positions in these specific schools. Herndon and South Lakes both with new principals who both seem lacking in actual leadership. I can go on for days about the incompetence of Principal Seward and the damage he's doing at South Lakes but won't as this is about Herndon. Even the executive principal, who is over both schools, is newer to his role. FCPS is not what it once was. The Herndon principal should have written a better and more precise email of what transpired with the student. She did the school and the victim's family a disservice by making it sound like a suicide.

If will please start separate threads as haven’t heard anything positive or negative about Seward. What is the damage he has done/is doing? And I thought Noto has been at HHS for several years now-not new?

[Anonymous]

It’s really something else to see how far Herndon High families are going to pretend this murder didn’t happen and that gang violence isn’t a HUGE problem at their school. The cognitive dissonance is off the charts.