Jackson-Reed Lockdown today

[Anonymous]

What’s involved in a DCPS elem lockdown? What were the kids told?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jackson-reed-high-school-in-northwest-dc-on-lockdown-after-gunshots-heard-outside/3212878/?amp=1

This news report even got is wrong. It says the high school, middle school, and elementary school were all on lock down.

No, some elementary schools were....just not the closest one to the shots fired because the school somehow knew by 3:21 that there was "no immediate impact on safety." What does that even mean? Those words are meaningless when someone (or multiple people?) was/were firing a rifle from a car and no one knows where they are/were at that time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/jackson-reed-high-school-in-northwest-dc-on-lockdown-after-gunshots-heard-outside/3212878/?amp=1

This news report even got is wrong. It says the high school, middle school, and elementary school were all on lock down.

No, some elementary schools were....just not the closest one to the shots fired because the school somehow knew by 3:21 that there was "no immediate impact on safety." What does that even mean? Those words are meaningless when someone (or multiple people?) was/were firing a rifle from a car and no one knows where they are/were at that time.

Good luck catching anyone in DC..we only use the cameras for tickets, not investigations .this is true by the way..don't assume the nations capital is blanketed in crime catching terrorist catching cameras. It's just not ..but liberals be liberals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So glad our idiot City Council just reduced the penalty for gun violence and is phasing out school resource officers!

Parents: time to stop voting for soft-on-crime clowns. This city is headed in the wrong direction.

I hope you’re focusing some of your energy on the NRA and their lobbyists. Time to stop voting for people who are against gun control and reasonable restrictions. This country is continuing to slither in the wrong direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So glad our idiot City Council just reduced the penalty for gun violence and is phasing out school resource officers!

Parents: time to stop voting for soft-on-crime clowns. This city is headed in the wrong direction.

I hope you’re focusing some of your energy on the NRA and their lobbyists. Time to stop voting for people who are against gun control and reasonable restrictions. This country is continuing to slither in the wrong direction. [/quote

You very much didn't speak to PPs point. Talk about "slithering"]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the principal did not make the call to dismiss- don’t you think she got direction from the MPD that it was safe to do so?!

Umm no, I'm sure they weren't that coordinated.

That is what the principal says in an email, though — MPD told them they didn’t need to lock down. Reports did say the shooter fled toward Van Ness, away from the area, so maybe that’s why. I was walking from AU Park to Deal at 3:30, not far from Janney, seemed safe enough.

JAC didn’t go outside today or use the gym, at least according to our kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So glad our idiot City Council just reduced the penalty for gun violence and is phasing out school resource officers!

Parents: time to stop voting for soft-on-crime clowns. This city is headed in the wrong direction.

I hope you’re focusing some of your energy on the NRA and their lobbyists. Time to stop voting for people who are against gun control and reasonable restrictions. This country is continuing to slither in the wrong direction.

Strongly doubt anyone in D.C. is voting for anyone who’s against gun control, and anyway we don’t get to vote for a voting member of Congress, so it wouldn’t matter if we did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure the principal did not make the call to dismiss- don’t you think she got direction from the MPD that it was safe to do so?!

Umm no, I'm sure they weren't that coordinated.

That is what the principal says [b]in an email, though — MPD told them they didn’t need to lock down. Reports did say the shooter fled toward Van Ness, away from the area, so maybe that’s why. I was walking from AU Park to Deal at 3:30, not far from Janney, seemed safe enough.

JAC didn’t go outside today or use the gym, at least according to our kid.

The email I received does not say this AT ALL. Please provide the quote.

[Anonymous]

Maybe JAC did not go outside but they did allow the self dismiss kids to walk home on their own at 3:15 at the exact time that police were sweeping the alleys of AU Park. The principal’s email saying that there was no threat was completely tone deaf to the parents of those kids. Fortunately a neighbor whose kid is at JR alerted me to the problem so I could pick up my kid and not have them walk home with a gun man loose in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe JAC did not go outside but they did allow the self dismiss kids to walk home on their own at 3:15 at the exact time that police were sweeping the alleys of AU Park. The principal’s email saying that there was no threat was completely tone deaf to the parents of those kids. Fortunately a neighbor whose kid is at JR alerted me to the problem so I could pick up my kid and not have them walk home with a gun man loose in the neighborhood.

I also find it slightly tone deaf how the Janney email uses the word "incident" that lead to a police presence. Oh please. Why the need to use such vague and PC language? Call it what it was. A shooting, with a gun, just outside or pretty close to a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I picked my 2nd grader up from JAC at Janney pretty early today (shortly after 4 pm). There were no kids playing outside then. He said that they had not gotten to go outside at all.

Did you ask your second grader about how the whole second grade was outside on the field until pickup? I got there early at 2:55 and my sons class as well as a couple others were all sitting on the soccer field. I picked him up from there when they were done

Why would they be outside at 2:55? That’s 20 minutes before dismissal. Also even if that were the case, the email from the principal says that the shooting occurred at 2:50 pm. It’s not reasonable to expect them to be notified, decide what to do, and move everyone that quickly.

Two 2nd grade classes were outside for birthday celebrations. They were moved from the playground to the field when the school got notification of the police activity.

[Anonymous]

Deal parent here -

Our family did not receive any communication from Deal during the incident. We get other texts and notifications from the school, but on Friday, the first official notification we saw was an email sent after 6 pm.

At a birthday party over the weekend, I asked 8 other Deal families, all confirmed the also had no communication from Deal on Friday. 2 of the families have HS students and did get notifications from Jackson-Reed.

I've emailed the principal, checked our contact info and called the school. Waiting for an update.