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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure this is a very naive question but why didn’t anyone hear the gunshot? The victim was found in the bathroom not that someone heard the gunshot?[/quote]
I was wondering the same. The only thing I could think of was that it happened during transition time when it's fairly loud in the hallway. But, IDK.  It's a good question.[/quote]

Schools have very solid walls and doors.  A gun shot would sound a lot like slamming a door in your house outside and far from the bathroom.   Double so if you are in classroom with thick walls.  I didn't hear it all in the building.  None of my students did.  
 -Magruder teacher.[/quote]

My kid goes to Magruder and the level of violence (fights, fight club/slap boxing/robbery) is pretty overwhelming right now. What would you like to see done to reduce that?[/quote]

I have a kid in a different nonW cluster and she reports the same.  Lunch time is chaos.

MCPS needs to do something to ensure school safety for the kids who do attend school to get an education.  [/quote]

Yes same here with a kid in a different cluster. You parents who keep using the school to prison tagline to keep SROs out of mcps should be ashamed of yourself. There was never a school to prison pipeline at MCPS and having SROs in a school building of 2500 students were certainly not the cause of majority of school arrests. If you all had looked at the data and listened and believed all the HS principals you would know that. But instead you'd rather listen to an old white man who has never walked into a HS hallway in this county or you'd rather listen to the council member who has a known grudge with the police. Ask your kid to show you TikTok videos of the school fights that are happening at their schools and tell me SROs aren't needed. [/quote]
Right now, at this moment in MCPS, what we really need is a surge of adults (security, dads on duty, etc.) simply monitoring halls in the high schools. The amount of hall-walking & class skipping is out of control, and there simply aren't enough adults available to manage it. Too many kids are far more interested in things other than academics during school time. They bring neighborhood drama to school and they escalate things while at school. One SRO isn't going to change the fact that at any moment in my high school I can glance down the hall and see 6-10 kids out of classrooms. Multiply that by about 8 similar hallways, and that's a lot of kids roaming. Just having more adult presence around would quell a lot of that behavior, and then there is less opportunity for the kids to escalate things.[/quote]

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