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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody is saying the real perpetrator shouldn't be punished. He absolutely should be and should be expelled for the rest of the year. No arguments from me.

But what I'm asking is how you would have handled the threat differently?

On Saturday, May 28 there was a message posted on a kid's social media account that he was going to bring a gun and bomb to school on Tuesday. It seems like police/the principal found out about it on Sunday, May 29 and notified the school community.

I am assuming the student whose social media had the threat was not allowed to come to school on Tuesday, May 31st.

Police did an investigation.

On Thursday, June 2 the investigation concluded that the kid was actually a victim and someone else posted the threatening message on his social media account.

Tell me this, wise parents of DCUM - if you were the principal and such an incident occurred under your watch, knowing the police are investigating and investigations aren't complete in short amounts of time - would you really let the student on whose social media account had the threat be allowed to attend school that Tuesday?

Yes  the real jerk needs to be punished. We all agree but in a situation like that...you would let the first student back to school on Tuesday? What if he really did post that message and did cause violence? How could you know for certain?[/quote]

Your synopsis leaves out the falsely accused student’s previous history in MCPS. Was this type of incident uncharacteristic of previous behavior in an MCPS school? Also, the police concluded early on that the child did not have access to weapons and he was not a threat. If Taylor banned a student from coming to school who didn’t have any weapons and what he was being accused of was not indicative of the child’s behavior then that is serious overreacting by a school principal.

Because of the enormous community outcry, the student falsely accused was probably traumatized and did not feel welcome to come to school even if he was not banned. Put yourself in his shoes with police and the school accusing you of something that you didn’t do. Thank god someone took the time to trace the IP address. [/quote]

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