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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn’t the principal mentioned that a knife was involved?  Mr. Taylor also stated that the police did NOT think the assailant was a Churchill student or former student.  All news agencies are quoting a police officer who identified the assailant as a Churchill student.

I am also concerned that a blast text message, email, and phone messages were not immediately sent home when the school went to shelter in place.  Students were returning from lunch on a PSAT test day that not everyone was already at school.  Students should have been told to stay away from Churchill if they weren’t already on campus.  We get blast text, phone and emails for non safety issues such as weekly announcements so there is a better way to use existing communication channels for student safety.  [/quote]
Silly! All the parents would rush to school to rescue Larla. Mayhem.[/quote]

My child was at home when the incident happened. So were a lot of students that did not have PSATs this morning.  They should have been told to remain safely at home till the situation had ended.

Imagine the same scenario but with a school shooter. That was one of the lessons learned from Virginia Tech.  Communication can be used to keep children who are not on campus away from school till the lock down ended.

T[b]his issue was raised during Dr. Benz tenure at Churchill and there was a bomb threat during morning drop off.  No communication then as well so parents were dropping off students to a potentially dangerous situation. [/quote][/b]

My DS was there at the time. They told all of the kids who were at school to go to the stadium. Mine got back in his car and came home. He told me there was no way he was going to be a sitting duck in the stadium for a crazy school shooter using a bomb threat as a diversion. DS did the absolute right thing! They need to get it together in MCPS and I fully support the SROs in the schools.[/quote]

A girl pushed and punched a girl who got slightly hurt. Parents and other students attempted to intervene. Girl most likely scared showed a knife as running back to car take off.

Wow scary, not. Horrible for girl pushed and punched. [/quote]

The parent at the scene thought the situation was more serious than what Mr. Taylor put in his email.  No where did Mr. Taylor say a knife was shown but the parent felt threatened by the knife. He was also scared for the life of his child that was with him. The police took 20 minutes to arrive to Churchill even though 911 was called 3 times.

MCPS needs to have better communication when serious incidents occur including a method to keep students from going to school when a dangerous event is occurring.  20 minutes is far too long for the police to respond to a dangerous situation at a school. I agree that SROs should be in high schools for incidents including what happened yesterday.[/quote]

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