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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 13:58 students and staff didn't find one gunman on campus that day but faced numerous adults going around with them, imagine the trauma. rinse and repeat let's have a festival (not the one that had previously been planned and scheduled)????  did the district or mcps explain why the response was what it was. Didn't see the same response at Whitman the next day?[/quote]

Thurs letter

...threat call to the main office
...administration called 911 immediately and Montgomery County Police Department members arrived

...Once MCPD arrived, they assumed command of the situation. During the lockdown MCPD conducted a thorough evaluation of the building and completed a full sweep of the building

this situation was thoroughly investigated by MCPD based on a variety of factors ..., and the [b]police’s inability to determine the veracity of the threat[/b], the police determined a need to complete a full sweep of the building.[/quote]

? They didn't find whoever or whatever made a threat?[/quote]

Recent BCC parent. I read the full letter. I read "inability to determine the veracity of the threat" to have nothing to do with whether or not they found the origin/maker of the threat.

TBH, if you have a bomb threat, you're gonna have to do a full sweep of the building to make people feel comfortable enough to go back.  There's really no way to determine the veracity of the threat unless you catch a known perp and he confesses and says "sorry bad joke" or "yes, there is a bomb".

It also seems awful, and is traumatizing, to see full SWAT roaming the halls with long guns, etc. But, again, the bottom line is unless you have a clear perp in front of you in the first few minutes, police have to treat these reports as a worst case scenario, IMO, and after Uvalde and MSD that means many officers with maximum weaponry.

FWIW, there has been at least one other unrelated attempted swatting incident in the BCC cluster within the last year that did not have anything to do with school. (Rather, it was the home of a high-ranking govt official.) It seemed to be cleared quickly and discreetly for a variety of reasons. BCC parents who meet with Bethesda police should be asking broader questions about swatting events generally in the community.

Schools now have to deal with gun threats, bomb threats called in by students and swatting by strangers. That is the sad society we live in.  And BCC parents writing nasty emails to/on the HS listserv and CCing every politician -- that is not going to change anything except keep us in an increasingly militarized school environment.  The answers are at the ballot box, but doing that work is less satisfying than impulsively & publicly shooting off an anger-filled email.  Parents are lamely rage-emailing while their kids have been out on the streets organizing and protesting (unsuccessfully so far) for gun control and other legislation.  So the Q isn't - what is wrong with the kids? The Q is - what is wrong with the adults? We created this society. The kids have no alternative but to grow up in it - doing shooter drills since kindergarten. That's on adults. 
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