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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s silly people think an SRO would have stopped this.[/quote]
well, we will never know now.

How many school shootings and/or arrest of a student who brought a gun to school has MCPS had, pre and post SRO removal?[/quote]

What we KNOW is that a SRO would have drastically changed the response.  The first 911 call was for a "community" officer for a school. It wasn't for an emergency police response for a school shooting.  Precious time elapsed that allowed the shooter to hide in a classroom that was already in lockdown. Why was he allowed to enter that classroom after the lockdown?  
An SRO would have locked the school down faster and trapped the shooter in the hall where he could have been apprehended instead of hiding. [/quote]

I disagree wholeheartedly.  These schools are huge.  Unless the SRO was literally in the hallway it occurred in and happened to witness the event, they wouldn’t have known who it was or even what happened for several minutes. Obviously, teachers are trained to scan the hallway and collect all students they see before locking down so the shooter was probably pulled in by a teacher anyway.  The way it played out may have gotten officers in the school a couple minutes quicker but the end result would have been the same.  I am impressed that they maintained calm, found the student, and AVOIDED any more injuries.  If they wouldn’t have been so careful, I believe the student would have been much more likely to freak out and turn the event into a mass shooting.  I get it guys, we feel the natural need to criticize (cmon, you guys can’t really are about the color of people coats and ties, right?) because the kids we love the most are inside of those buildings.  We NEED gun control NOW!  [/quote]
IMO, it's not just about whether an SRO in the school could have prevented the shooting that day but the overall need for adults to mentor and connect with kids to prevent incidents from escalating to the point where someone brings a gun to school to settle an argument.[/quote]

DP here.  The overall need for adults to mentor and connect with the kids is EXACTLY the reason why we need SROs back. Look at Seneca Valley and how the principal felt compelled to ask volunteer dads to do this very thing. Why doesn't the county value our students enough to pay for this? Why do we have to resort to volunteers to make up for this deficiency? I am sick and tired of these clueless idiots running this county and this school system.[/quote]
PP here.. 100% agree with you. I'm just pointing out to the anti-SRO crowd that having SROs is NOT just about whether they could have prevented this incident.  Maybe, maybe not.  But, clearly, we need more adult mentors in these schools, and SROs can be part of that.  It doesn't mean we can't have mental health counselors, volunteer dads, etc.. But SROs is part of the solution, and they are the only ones who are trained to deal with shooters and assess these kinds of risks.

PG county has a higher URM % than MCPS and chose to keep SROs in school, and they have a black county executive.  There must be something positive about SROs that made PGCPS keep the SROs. Yet, in MCPS, at the direction of a woke white male, MCPS got rid of SROs.   We are seeing a rise in violence, mostly in schools with a higher URM.  Which group is now being more damaged by removing SROs?
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Exactjy. I will say this over and over again. The people who run this county do not care about students or POC. They don't. Elrich who wanted SROs out is an old white man from Takoma Park who doesn't even have school aged kids. Jawando who was behind all this has a known grudge with law enforcement and he doesn't even feel like mcps is good enough for his kids considering that he sends them to a private school. On the other hand, every single HS principal..the people who know their students and communities the most begged to keep SROs. If the county cared, they would have listened to them.[/quote]

They care least of all for the white kids, whose parents cannot advocate for them or they are called racist.  Erlich goes with the popular vote to get reelected.  It has nothing to do with race and students don't vote.

Anyone following Jawando or believes his non-sense is harming our kids.  You should be required to have a child in MCPS to be on the board.[/quote]

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