Lockdown at Blair?

[Anonymous]

1P UPDATE: just watched @mcpnews
walk a young male in handcuffs out of Blair HS. Reached out to @MCPS
to confirm this is the stabbing suspect.
@fox5dc

https://twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1457771001173856262

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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What are you talking about? I’m talking about the PP comparing the kid having a BB gun to a kid stabbing another kid. What Whitman incident are you talking about?

Not the PP, but they might be thinking of the Whitman student who attacked a Churchill student with a knife, but who was pried off the other girl by parents before an actual stabbing took place.

They mentioned a kid killing 26 people. When did that happen around here?

On December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, and it wasn't a gang incident.

Has the world really blocked that horrible incident out already!!? I know there have been tons of shootings since but they were 5/6 year old inside their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What are you talking about? I’m talking about the PP comparing the kid having a BB gun to a kid stabbing another kid. What Whitman incident are you talking about?

Not the PP, but they might be thinking of the Whitman student who attacked a Churchill student with a knife, but who was pried off the other girl by parents before an actual stabbing took place.

They mentioned a kid killing 26 people. When did that happen around here?

On December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, and it wasn't a gang incident.

Has the world really blocked that horrible incident out already!!? I know there have been tons of shootings since but they were 5/6 year old inside their school.

If the forum is MCPS schools why are we talking about CT? Stay on topic people. Quit making this about gun control and mass shootings. That’s not what happened today, or ever in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1P UPDATE: just watched @mcpnews
walk a young male in handcuffs out of Blair HS. Reached out to @MCPS
to confirm this is the stabbing suspect.
@fox5dc

https://twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1457771001173856262

Wow. They walked him ‘out of Blair’ in handcuffs? That would mean he was at the school.

Kudos to MCPD for getting the assailant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1P UPDATE: just watched @mcpnews
walk a young male in handcuffs out of Blair HS. Reached out to @MCPS
to confirm this is the stabbing suspect.
@fox5dc

https://twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1457771001173856262

Wow. They walked him ‘out of Blair’ in handcuffs? That would mean he was at the school.

Kudos to MCPD for getting the assailant.

ALLEGED assailant, eh?

[Anonymous]

Everyone should be focusing on the county's inability to keep our students safe - regardless of which school they attend. I put the blame on the County Council and they need to come up with a solution now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should be focusing on the county's inability to keep our students safe - regardless of which school they attend. I put the blame on the County Council and they need to come up with a solution now.

You put the blame on the County Council, why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing we got rid of SROs!

cept we didn’t. They just changed names. Pay attention.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/08/montgomery-co-schools-wont-have-school-resource-officers-when-students-return/

Sure looks like there are no more officers on school grounds to me!

Read your own article.

"The school system said the position will be replaced by Community Engagement Officers, which will consist of police officers who patrol in areas around schools, but will not be in direct contact with school staff."
Sound like a useful position to handle an incident outside in the parking lot, or in a nearby neighborhood.

Police office at/in the school all day is different that an officer driving around the streets near multiple schools. It's simply wrong to call this a simple name change. For years, Blair had a police officer on site with his/her car parked on the sidewalk next to the main entrance. That is no longer the case. Great policy you woke fools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should be focusing on the county's inability to keep our students safe - regardless of which school they attend. I put the blame on the County Council and they need to come up with a solution now.

You put the blame on the County Council, why?

Because they removed the SROs (after full disapproval from ALL MCPS high school principals) and promised a whole bunch of mental health advisors and social workers to replace them. Only the first half has happened. Yes, they are to be blamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does mcps tells its students that they should respect each other and be civil? Do the students know what is right and what is wrong?

with all due respect... you have to kidding me.

Yes, MCPS does tell the students this, but do you *really* think kids, especially teens, listen? Do you have children at all?

I tell my kids this, and have a zero tolerance policy at home when it comes to my kids not respecting each other. But, I can't control what other kids do, and I can't control what they do outside of my home. I can only hope the lessons that they learn at home are exercised outside of the home.

[Anonymous]

.@mcpnews
Chief Jones confirms the Blair HS stabbing suspect is in police custody -- notes "Thanks to our officers for their quick work." @fox5dc

https://twitter.com/RamirezReports/status/1457777779236212736

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That brings us to...three? four? stabbings on MCPS property since the start of school.

Any attempt to lay this at the feet of a certain school is misguided, as we're seeing these incidents all over the county. But it does force a question of what to do about it.

Unlike PP, I don't think that the renaming of SROs is the problem here. We are living in difficult times, and times that have been particularly hard on young people. As a society, we've not done much to care for them, emotionally, during this period.

I think we're seeing the impact now from pretending that everything was normal, that they could just pick up where they left off at school, even when kids lost parents, or parents lost their jobs, or kids lost the ties of friendship that had kept them sane.

Let's stop lobbing rhetorical bombs about Blair vs Whitman stabbings and which one is more typical and start thinking about what we can do for our young people, across the county, to mitigate the causes of this violence.

Yes to the last few paragraphs! Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone should be focusing on the county's inability to keep our students safe - regardless of which school they attend. I put the blame on the County Council and they need to come up with a solution now.

You put the blame on the County Council, why?

Because they removed the SROs (after full disapproval from ALL MCPS high school principals) and promised a whole bunch of mental health advisors and social workers to replace them. Only the first half has happened. Yes, they are to be blamed.

+1 I emailed them to NOT remove the SROs. I can't stand the MoCo progressives. And I'm not a Trumpster.

They removed the SRO because some woke people said kids feel "threatened" by the cops in the school. Gosh,do they feel more safe with a school shooter or knife wielder in the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good thing we got rid of SROs!

cept we didn’t. They just changed names. Pay attention.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/08/montgomery-co-schools-wont-have-school-resource-officers-when-students-return/

Sure looks like there are no more officers on school grounds to me!

NP here. Sounds like PP is correct, this isn't just a name change. “These Community Engagement Officers will be assigned to specific schools, but will be based in the community instead of inside those schools,” said James D’Andrea, chief of staff to the superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools. “They will not be stationed in schools, or on school grounds.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That brings us to...three? four? stabbings on MCPS property since the start of school.

Any attempt to lay this at the feet of a certain school is misguided, as we're seeing these incidents all over the county. But it does force a question of what to do about it.

Unlike PP, I don't think that the renaming of SROs is the problem here. We are living in difficult times, and times that have been particularly hard on young people. As a society, we've not done much to care for them, emotionally, during this period.

I think we're seeing the impact now from pretending that everything was normal, that they could just pick up where they left off at school, even when kids lost parents, or parents lost their jobs, or kids lost the ties of friendship that had kept them sane.

Let's stop lobbing rhetorical bombs about Blair vs Whitman stabbings and which one is more typical and start thinking about what we can do for our young people, across the county, to mitigate the causes of this violence.

Yes to the last few paragraphs! Thanks.

Let's look at nearby counties like Howard which seems to be getting this right. Their kids too have gone through the same pandemic isolation and emotional issues as our kids. What's different? One- they kept the SROs but with a few changes tp the program. Why can't we have sensible people running this county?