Wheaton HS stabbing?

[Anonymous]

What’s the use of policies when principals can fail to follow them without any consequence?

And how does the PIO Liliana Lopez’ssleep at night? Imagine claiming with a straight face that the situation was contained when an intruder who had brought in a weapon was at large outside the school? How did she know he wasn’t leaving to get another weapon or to wait for his victim to leave.

MCPS is so careless with security, it’s frightening.

[Anonymous]

Do we actually know that the teacher who got the knife away wasn't trained to disarm? There are some emergency response protocols, like ALICE, that actually do teach teachers how to counterattack and get a weapon away from an attacker. It's possible the teacher has had that training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

+1

It’s unbelievable the lengths to which people are willing to justify all the wrong and poor decisions made here by MCPS staff and leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

They didn't let anyone in. Another student let them in and they don't have enough staff to monitor the halls given how large the school is. We've also been happy at Wheaton, its far better than the other HS our other child is at.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

They didn't let anyone in. Another student let them in and they don't have enough staff to monitor the halls given how large the school is. We've also been happy at Wheaton, its far better than the other HS our other child is at.

So MCPS is hinging the safety of its school building on the judgement and discernment of minor children who may let people they do or don't know in? That sounds like a sound way to run a $3 billion dollar school system?

And if they don't have enough security staff, is the principal, teaching staff or PTSA lobbying the superintendent or the school board to increase security staff at the school? I have never seen or heard them state that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

They didn't let anyone in. Another student let them in and they don't have enough staff to monitor the halls given how large the school is. We've also been happy at Wheaton, its far better than the other HS our other child is at.

So MCPS is hinging the safety of its school building on the judgement and discernment of minor children who may let people they do or don't know in? That sounds like a sound way to run a $3 billion dollar school system?

And if they don't have enough security staff, is the principal, teaching staff or PTSA lobbying the superintendent or the school board to increase security staff at the school? I have never seen or heard them state that.

You're an idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

They didn't let anyone in. Another student let them in and they don't have enough staff to monitor the halls given how large the school is. We've also been happy at Wheaton, its far better than the other HS our other child is at.

So MCPS is hinging the safety of its school building on the judgement and discernment of minor children who may let people they do or don't know in? That sounds like a sound way to run a $3 billion dollar school system?

And if they don't have enough security staff, is the principal, teaching staff or PTSA lobbying the superintendent or the school board to increase security staff at the school? I have never seen or heard them state that.

Mcps screams poverty. Jawando is anti police and security as his kids are mostly in privates. Most don’t care about Wheaton as it’s not a w school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Staff called non-emergency line rather than 911. That’s why they were on hold for 12 minutes.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/12/19/mcps-stabbing-non-emergency-line/

Absolutely bonkers. My car broke down in the middle of 355 in rush hour awhile back, blocking a lane and creating a hazard. I was flustered and unsure if it was 911-worthy since there had been no crash, so I called the non-emergency line first and it went to voicemail. That struck me as sub-optimal so I decided I'd better call 911 anyway. The police were there within a few minutes. And that was for a stupid car breakdown. At any point in the 15 minutes waiting on hold for a stabbing at a school, did it not occur to this caller that this was NOT the best choice??

[Anonymous]

An administrator that didn’t call 911 for a stabbing is unbelievable. Sitting on hold for 12 min calling the non-emergency line?! Decision making is obviously very flawed. This is crazy and I would have zero confidence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title of this thread is very misleading. I have a child at the school and based on what I know, it sounds like the excellent Administration at Wheaton did a good job of handling this. I appreciate the day-of explanation.

You’re obviously very protective of the Wheaton administration. Let me get this straight, the Wheaton admin allowed an armed intruder to enter their school, attack a student with a deadly weapon, leave anonymously before the admin even knew. Then the admin responded by not calling 911, not alerting staff or students, and then misleading the public about what happened. And you think that is doing a good job at handling this?

They didn't let anyone in. Another student let them in and they don't have enough staff to monitor the halls given how large the school is. We've also been happy at Wheaton, its far better than the other HS our other child is at.

So MCPS is hinging the safety of its school building on the judgement and discernment of minor children who may let people they do or don't know in? That sounds like a sound way to run a $3 billion dollar school system?

And if they don't have enough security staff, is the principal, teaching staff or PTSA lobbying the superintendent or the school board to increase security staff at the school? I have never seen or heard them state that.

You're an idiot

That's your response? Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An administrator that didn’t call 911 for a stabbing is unbelievable. Sitting on hold for 12 min calling the non-emergency line?! Decision making is obviously very flawed. This is crazy and I would have zero confidence

It's not unbelievable once you realize and accept that they're avoiding calling 911 intentionally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:An administrator that didn’t call 911 for a stabbing is unbelievable. Sitting on hold for 12 min calling the non-emergency line?! Decision making is obviously very flawed. This is crazy and I would have zero confidence

Was it actually a stabbing, though? The victim got a slight laceration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An administrator that didn’t call 911 for a stabbing is unbelievable. Sitting on hold for 12 min calling the non-emergency line?! Decision making is obviously very flawed. This is crazy and I would have zero confidence

It's not unbelievable once you realize and accept that they're avoiding calling 911 intentionally.

can you expand on this? how does calling 911 impact MCPS negatively?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An administrator that didn’t call 911 for a stabbing is unbelievable. Sitting on hold for 12 min calling the non-emergency line?! Decision making is obviously very flawed. This is crazy and I would have zero confidence

It's not unbelievable once you realize and accept that they're avoiding calling 911 intentionally.

can you expand on this? how does calling 911 impact MCPS negatively?

MCPS administrators often worry about institutional fallout, including:

1. Negative media attention and damage to the school’s reputation

2. Pressure from district leadership to keep incident numbers low

3. Being labeled as unable to “manage” their building

4. Possible job repercussions or poor evaluations