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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of ya’ll really live in a bubble.  Were there some choices made at Magruder that maybe weren’t the best and lessons learned? Yes.  But it’s clear that many of y’all have not reviewed any actual shooting data, what happens during mass shootings, why some of the practices that exist have been developed, or understand why decisions made in the moment happen.

You know what’s traumatizing:  Being in lockdown while hearing bullets nearby. Stepping out into utter chaos outside. Walking through the blood and bodies of your classmates and staff.  Seeing the face of the mother who is realizing she won’t get her kid back.  And if you can imagine how devastating  any of the above would feel, note that you would still be nine degrees away from the true trauma. [/quote]

I'm not sure what the point of your post is.  It's like telling someone who has food insecurity and goes hungry to imagine what it's like to watch your whole family die of hunger during a mass famine.  Yes, there could be much worse trauma.  But that doesn't mean that people aren't right to complain about other deficiencies, and look for ways to improve upon them.  I think your post was very insensitive and rude.

The communications definitely need improvement.  My kid was in a lockdown once for hours at her school (not Magruder, a different MCPS school).  I was listening to the police scanner and it was clear for the last half of it that there was no longer any threat at the school -- the individual had departed the grounds and the police had gone off in pursuit.  Could the person have doubled back?  Yeah, I guess so.  But that's not really any greater risk than the ordinary day -- someone could always in theory come to school property with a weapon.  There was no reason to keep kids in a classroom peeing their pants and hyperventilating in fear when the kid with the gun was long gone.  The kids were probably safer that day than normal days, because MCPD kept a couple cars stationed outside the school for the rest of the day.  [/quote]

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