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What an unbelievably stupid post. Maybe try one iota of fact-checking before ranting and raving nonsense about why MCPS didn't arbitrarily place teenagers in a special ed school for elementary kids. Just beyond uninformed. If this is the kind of hysterical nonsense that parents send to the schools, no wonder they don't listen.

+1000.  And they listed Title 1 like it's an independent school  :roll: [/quote]

I'm trying to get criminals out of the schools and lock them up so they don't shoot other kids.

What are you doing?

Better take a real hard look in the mirror sunshine.[/quote]

Then get your facts straight honey. The student that got shot was the "criminal" with the ankle monitor, not the shooter. [/quote]

Get your facts straight honey.  BOTH were criminals.

The shooter recently transferred into Wootton from Blake HS in Silver Spring.  Charged with attempted second‑degree murder, two counts of first‑degree assault, two counts of second‑degree assault, and (multiple) firearms‑related charges such as possession of a dangerous weapon on school property. Potentially faces 30+ years of charges and will remain in custody at an adult (not juvenile) detention facility without bond.

The shooter claimed in court that he wasn't the aggressor.  The kid shot is the same kid who told his "mental health professional" last year he was bullied at Wootton, making all the fuss that got the Principal replaced. His mom wanted to transfer him out but claims she was blocked. There is also a claim that the kid shot was wearing an ankle monitor.[/quote]

But in court yesterday it was stated the shooter had no priors - so he was not a criminal prior to Monday. You have no evidence that he should have been placed anywhere else other than the public school where he lives, which is where he was. While I get wishing there was a way this could have been avoided, it would be a horrible policy for MCPS to just start sending kids to alternate placements because they transferred mid year - and I know no one is really honestly saying they should, but thats how many of these posts read when you say that young man should have been in an alternate school! We simply don't know enough yet to make that statement.

Now, if the victim's mom pursues legal action, that may lead to an investigation on the shooters school records and then it'd be known if the shooter had a history in MCPS of causing trouble. The shooter could not have been connected to the bullying last year though since he was not at Wootton then. [/quote]

The shooters sister was a missing child in 2022. Around age 16 and police were looking for her as a runaway or possibly endangered.

Mommy has quite a history as well.

Like you said we don't know enough. What we do know is a gun shot by a human hurt another human at a school filled with kids. That is what we should all be addressing the guns, mental health, and school procedures in these matters.

If it comes out that the shooter was being bullied and the school system did nothing will that process ever be addressed, so it would be less likely to end in a child being shot. Nope.

However the shooters family unfortunately lost their right to privacy when he took that gun and shot someone inside a school and when mommy & sister tried to help him escape.

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What you have dug up on the mother and sister confirms the boy came from a troubled home. But having a troubled background does not make you a criminal. Doing something criminal makes you criminal.

Khalil White-Villatoro became a criminal once he decided to shoot his classmate. Does the troubled background at home explain why he might have gone down the path of criminality? Sure. But since it was confirmed in court that he had no  criminal record prior to this incident, those who seek to continue labeling him as a known criminal who was transferred into the school are peddling a lie. I'll hold back on making assumptions about why they might be invested in doing that, even though it's obvious to me.

I would, however, strongly disagree that the school failing to follow-up on bullying claims is disconnected from this incident. Incidents like this escalate to violence when schools fail to adequately respond to bullying and conflict. If MCPS had competent people, systems and processes for handling conflict in schools, this shooting absolutely could have been prevented.

MCPS must be held accountable.[/quote]

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