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[quote=Anonymous]It's important for people to understand that a person with a weapon was able to gain access to the school for some unspecified amount of time. The fact that the weapon was "just a knife" is a coincidence and not the result of some security success.

It's also important for people to understand that a security team member (not clear to me if it was SRO or other role...but that's secondary) was injured by the intruder with the weapon. The fact that the message from leadership did not full lean-in on how lower-paid staff members make tremendous sacrifices is beyond me. Sure, there's a statement of appreciation. But committing to a system that aims to protect the school and it's entire staff and student body should have been the opening line. By how many inches did a MoCo employee almost lose their life at JFKHS today?

Are people supposed to be thankful that this was a targeted attack on a specific student (at first)?! Or, instead, are they to take some accountability if they have a student there and be sure to talk to them about how wrong they were to be in the area with a cell phone out?! These are the messages being sent. But accountability for something like this happening? Zero. And so disappointing.

ASIDE: Is duration of shelter-in-place a metric the county is tracking or somehow incentivized on? This is the 4th or 5th SIP (at least) at this school in this school year and the students reports of SIP duration are nowhere near what gets communicated on social media. This is far less important than the points above but it's now feeling fishy. Why is SIP duration so important and why is the reported duration so far removed from the experienced duration?

Sorry for the rant. [/quote]

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