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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School is very dangerous and becoming more so each month [/quote]

Kids at Churchill are wielding knives this week. Next week it's MS13![/quote]

Nope, we'll keep our MS13.  Right now they are less violent than the the Churchill kids. [/quote]

The incident was handled properly and well by the Churchill Principal, school security, and the police; and without SRO's.

Instead of complimenting their work, you write this drivel?

Take a seat, clown.[/quote]

Not the poster PP quoted, but I think there are lessons Churchill, MCPS, and the police should take away and improve for student and staff safety.

The police response time was abysmal.  20 minutes is too long.  The armed student had a knife.  What if next time it is a gun?

Churchill never warned the community that a dangerous event was happening on campus till hours later. This allowed more students to return to campus after lunch.  Again, what if this was an active shooter situation? Or a bomb threat? The principal has a way to send Sunday phone calls, emails, and text messages but there’s not a safety alert that is triggered when the school goes on lockdown? Also, why wasn’t the school immediately in lockdown instead of waiting till the end of lunch?

MCPS needs a proactive approach to school security.  It was evident last week that there is a huge lack of planning, coordination, and communication that would result in lives lost if the student had used his knife or used a gun.  MCPS is just waiting for a mass casualty event to happen before they will take school security seriously.[/quote]

I don't see any evidence that Churchill didn't handle this exactly correctly.  The problem is that we don't know much about the event.  It may be that it's really not possible to convey any more than we currently know, but from the outside, we can't tell how much risk there really was.

For instance, this could be the kind of incident that doesn't put anyone in harm's way except those immediately involved (i.e., the girl being assaulted by the Whitman student)-- and it could be that those on the ground saw the Whitman student vacate the area (i.e., get in a car and leave the neighborhood) brandishing a knife as a threat not to be followed.   In that case, I don't see any problem with any of Churchill's actions.  There was nothing to warn anyone about at that time.

On the other hand, it could be much more serious (if the knife was used to threaten people at close range) and the Whitman student was seen going into the neighborhood with the knife--- in which case, the community should have been warned because kids would have been walking to school at that time and the incident could have escalated.

My guess is that even if it is the second scenario, any warning would have been way, way too late.  The amount of time it takes to send out a message is surely longer than for the Whitman student to get far from the school.    [/quote]

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