Student with Gun found at Walter Johnson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both of these things can be true:

I am glad no one was hurt.

I agree with PPs who are calling out the snobby W parents on here.

If you aren't a snobby W parent, you have no reason to get huffy. If you are, you should take a step back and reconsider your snobbery. This gun BS is everywhere now. How about you focus on helping with that instead of sitting back and criticizing other schools all the time.

Here’s the thing. I’m a “w parent”. I’m not snobby, I work very very hard to send my kids to WJ but I recognize that I’m fortunate to do so. I’m huffy because our kids were in danger today and there are a bunch of a$$hole$ on here making this a w school vs other schools thing.
Start your own gd thread and let the adults discuss the matter at hand

DP but W parents do that all the times.
Had that been a non-W school, W parents would be here calling the school all kind of names, ganglandia, crime-infested etc...
So cry me a river.

Exactly. They’re constantly putting our schools down for having high FARMS rates, lower test scores, high rates of Hispanic students, etc.

Maybe now they can realize that the W schools aren’t an impenetrable palace of perfection and join the rest of us in the business of improving MCPS, instead of acting like it’s somebody else’s problem.

[Anonymous]

Here is more on the incident. The student will be charged as an adult https://dailyvoice.com/maryland/montgomery/teen-to-be-tried-as-adult-after-bringing-weapon-to-walter-johnson-high-school-police/

Wondering if this has something to do with Israel-Gaza war?

[Anonymous]

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My son graduated from WJ last year.

For me the advantage of a so-called W school are the academics. You can look at all the MCPS high school websites to look at number of AP courses and WJ, WW and a couple of others offer the most. The teachers are great. This is what my property tax is paying for.

It was always my understanding that safety is a concern everywhere. My own private school, back in the day, had safety concerns of that nature.

So I think some "gotcha", jealous posters are misguided. Not to mention, it's in very poor taste to add their schadenfreude to this thread. I hope none of you would have gloated had there been actual injuries or deaths? The rate you're going, I wouldn't put it past some of you...

I could never figure out why the big push for so many AP's? The students only have so many free classes so as long as the school has all the core AP's plus a few more in your child's interests that's plenty or they can take classes at MC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m very thankful that a student took the initiative to report the gun. However, the letter seemed very boilerplate. At a minimum, it would be a good opportunity to remind parents and students what the penalties as stipulated in the Student Code of Conduct are. To gloss over these penalties doesn’t give them any weight to dissuade students from bringing weapons into school.

The code of conduct is linked. If you scroll through the punishment for possessing a firearm is automatic expulsion for a minimum of one year. The superintendent can decrease that time as their discretion. They better not even think about it.

Where’s the link? Why not clearly state what the penalty is in the letter to the community?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My son graduated from WJ last year.

For me the advantage of a so-called W school are the academics. You can look at all the MCPS high school websites to look at number of AP courses and WJ, WW and a couple of others offer the most. The teachers are great. This is what my property tax is paying for.

It was always my understanding that safety is a concern everywhere. My own private school, back in the day, had safety concerns of that nature.

So I think some "gotcha", jealous posters are misguided. Not to mention, it's in very poor taste to add their schadenfreude to this thread. I hope none of you would have gloated had there been actual injuries or deaths? The rate you're going, I wouldn't put it past some of you...

No, no it's not. Taxes are not user fees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a DCC High School parent who is constantly chastised and lambasted on this forum for not sending my kid to a W school, because the W schools have less behavioral/safety issues, I think you all need to re-examine your false sense of security and superiority.

What a POS you must be to hear this news and attempt an " I told you I was right"
Wow.
Wj has over three thousands students so it is more likely to happen there than other places. .

I am impressed the student who saw it showed leadership and responsibility and reported it. I can think of a few schools where that part wouldn't have happened.

Blair has over 3,000 students. When has DCUM argued that incidents like this are more likely to happen there because of its size? No, we’ve always heard the issue was the community.
New poster BTW

[Anonymous]

Alphabet based boundaries aren't rigid population boundaries.

WJ is a border school. If you keep pointing at WJ when making claims about W schools, maybe what you are noticing is that WJ is different from the others.

[Anonymous]

Dear WJ parents,

On behalf of all decent DCC parents, I woukd like to apologize for the jerks trying to make this incident into yet another DCC vs Ws drama.

Signed, Einstein parent whose kid was in a lockdown last year when a student was found to have a gun

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Still think SROs are unnecessary?

MCPS have SRO’s idiot and they didn’t do anything to prevent the gun.

They have CRO's and security but they need way more. And, they need metal and other detectors.

CROs are SROs by another name. And once again no … security and SROs don’t fix this

This is a great example where SROs would have been crucial. The student reported the incident to security instead of SRO since there aren't any. A police officer could have intervened immediately whereas security had to ask the guy to self frisk. Ridiculous. Wate of precious minutes in an emergency.

But in actuality, a SRO was NOT crucial.

The more security the better. It would have helped as it could have been dealt with more quickly. The lack of discipline, lack of parental involvement, lack of structure and rules and expectations are why kids are struggling so much and why we are having more, not less incidents.

Yes! A police officer in every classroom and every bathroom!

And in every police officer!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both of these things can be true:

I am glad no one was hurt.

I agree with PPs who are calling out the snobby W parents on here.

If you aren't a snobby W parent, you have no reason to get huffy. If you are, you should take a step back and reconsider your snobbery. This gun BS is everywhere now. How about you focus on helping with that instead of sitting back and criticizing other schools all the time.

Here’s the thing. I’m a “w parent”. I’m not snobby, I work very very hard to send my kids to WJ but I recognize that I’m fortunate to do so. I’m huffy because our kids were in danger today and there are a bunch of a$$hole$ on here making this a w school vs other schools thing.
Start your own gd thread and let the adults discuss the matter at hand

DP but W parents do that all the times.
Had that been a non-W school, W parents would be here calling the school all kind of names, ganglandia, crime-infested etc...
So cry me a river.

It's just the monotonous motif of the mcps forum here: Blair and the Ws

So boring. Between the w haters and the sarcastic Uber progressive "we don't need extra security " bore its barely worth reading anymore

Without extra security, who would prevent all the parents from stopping a school shooter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Alphabet based boundaries aren't rigid population boundaries.

WJ is a border school. If you keep pointing at WJ when making claims about W schools, maybe what you are noticing is that WJ is different from the others.

Damn! WJ has been booted from the W school elite club for being too ghetto!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Still think SROs are unnecessary?

MCPS have SRO’s idiot and they didn’t do anything to prevent the gun.

They have CRO's and security but they need way more. And, they need metal and other detectors.

Really???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope this kid will be expelled but somehow I doubt it.

at least get a really BIG restorative circle!

Restorative Roulette

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is terrifying. You’ll notice in the letter that it wasn’t necessarily a student who reported it. They say individual, so it could have been a staff member. Whomever it is is a true hero!

Agreed although the letter indicates it was a student by saying, “another student.”

“An individual reported to the administration that they believed they witnessed another student attempting to conceal a weapon in his clothing.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m very thankful that a student took the initiative to report the gun. However, the letter seemed very boilerplate. At a minimum, it would be a good opportunity to remind parents and students what the penalties as stipulated in the Student Code of Conduct are. To gloss over these penalties doesn’t give them any weight to dissuade students from bringing weapons into school.

The code of conduct is linked. If you scroll through the punishment for possessing a firearm is automatic expulsion for a minimum of one year. The superintendent can decrease that time as their discretion. They better not even think about it.

Fortunately the BOE and Superintendent almost always demonstrate excellent judgment and act promptly to ensure the safety of school communities, which is their paramount concern.