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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Confirming that the 19 year old was a former Blake HS student. Hence why he was at the school to pick up a friend. He has ties to the Blake community and is known by many seniors.

Furthermore, the gun likely belonged to the student was shot. Which might mean he had the gun on him while he was in school.

Another thing: apparently the principal has been allowing students to eat lunch in their cars in the parking lot. So the reason why the kids were congregating in the parking lot was because the principal has been allowing them to spend lunch there. That seems like a really bone-headed call for him to have made.[/quote]

I think that’s common in many HS.  There isn’t really room in the cafeteria for people to eat.  Our schools are very overcrowded.  
I’m not really sure the solution.  I think one issue is that when I was in HS, you could drop out after 16, so I think some of these kids that just didn’t want to be in school weren’t in school.  [/quote]

Outside of MCPs there are high schools that schedule multiple lunches. Easy to combine lunch and advisory into one period to at least split lunches into 2.

In 2027, almost every HS building will have reduced enrollment due to the boundary changes and opening of Woodward. Seems like a great time to go back to closed lunches.[/quote]

The reasons that there is one lunch period is for clubs can meet and so kids can meet with teachers.  [/quote]

They can do clubs after school.  Kids can meet before and after school with teachers.  [/quote]

Do you have high schoolers?  Especially ones that rely on the buses to get to and from school?  Having one lunch period where students can do make-up tests, meet with teachers, and have club meetings is incredibly helpful for busy kids and families who would otherwise struggle to find time outside of the school day.  Activity buses only run some days, so it can be hard for students to stay late or get to school early.  As a parent with kids in two separate MCPS high schools (including one at Blake), I would prefer that more effort be put into actually enforcing the closed campus rules at lunch at least for the schools with closed lunches. I just dropped one kid off at their high school (not Blake) for an afternoon AP test and the number of students walking around the neighborhood during a supposed closed lunch period was ridiculous.[/quote]

We have to stop with this narrative. The same children you're insisting are too busy to meet after school have all the time in the world to:

- Get their hands on ghost guns
- Drug deal and/or use drugs
- Rob CVS
- Get into fights at McDonald's
- Break into vacant houses and record fight videos
- Stab and rob people at Wheaton mall

If the children have time to get into trouble after school, they certainly have time to do productive things after school.[/quote]

This is a nonsensical post.  The kids that are doing robotics club and engineering club and feed-the-homeless club at lunch are NOT the same kids that are robbing CVS and breaking into vacant houses t to record fight videos.  Basically, some of you are in favor of making school much harder and more depressing for the "good" kids in order to crack down on bad behavior by other kids (who will likely ignore those rules anyway).  The violence in schools is not great, and my kids don't love it, but the truth is that they are very unlikely to be the victim of violence because they are not dealing/buying drugs, and are not fighting with anyone in the hallways, bathrooms, or parking lots.  I would like them to be able to buy a burrito at lunch, and do their clubs at lunch, and meet with teachers at lunch....I feel like this is one of the few things at MCPS that works well for the kids who are trying to do the right thing.  So let's NOT get rid of it.  Instead, let's deal with the kids who are the problem.[/quote]

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