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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they let one parent pick up their kid early, then they would need to devote staff to allowing all the parents there to also get their kids early.

It was for the good of the entire school that admins were able to focus on keeping everyone contained, safe and allow police to do what they needed to do.

When they did allow parents to start getting their kids early it was a time consuming process - forms had to be filled out and each kid needed an escort from their classroom.

Most of the parents were patient and understanding. I don’t get a parent who thinks their demand to have their kid released NOW takes precedence over everything else going on. There were multiple updates from the school stating everyone is safe and needs to sit tight. SMH[/quote]

This. I am sorry for the man’s distraught DD who wanted to leave the school. I absolutely understand why he would be upset and frustrated. But the outrage over keeping the kids inside, and not allowing the children to leave when a few parents wanted them to is unbalanced. This isn’t a small school and this isn’t a private school.

I live in Alexandria City where we famously have ONE gigantic school with its share of fights, stabbings, etc. The kids often will meet up at Bradlee to continue fights (this is also where one kid was killed/stabbed and another was shot). You are naive and ignorant if you don’t think it was a real threat that kids could not have continued this fight or angst off campus had they been released. Sure it could have happened at 3 or 4pm once school got out but if you let them out 1 hour, etc right after this happens the likelihood absolutely probably is higher.

Live in the real world. It’s 2025. [/quote]

The parents do live in real world and were simply acting according to and following instructions specifically written by FCPS for what parents should and can do when FCPS calls a situation a Stay Put Sit Tight, which by FCPS words is kids cannot leave on own but can be picked up by parent with proper ID. The parents at school had such proper ID to pick up their kids. The parents were not asking for entire school to be released, but for FCPS to follow its own emergency response directions. So if FCPS calling it SPST, FCPS should follow FCPS-drafted protocol posted on their website. If FCPS did not want to release to parents for whatever reason, they needed to not call it SPST.

Bottom-line, someone needed to have prepped Reid as she didn’t know FCPS emergency response terms and what mean. She set herself up as soon as she called it SPST.

https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/safety-security/emergency-planning-and-crisis-response#:~:text=Stay%20Put%2C%20Stay%20Tuned%20may,external%20situation%20is%20being%20resolved.
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