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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can hear a helicopter circling in downtown Bethesda. [/quote]

Me again. Now hearing sirens.

I'm prepared to bet that following Monday's "weapon" in the school building (Principal chose to hide the fact that it was a gun and we heard it from the media), Mooney chose to go into lockdown over today's bomb threat so he wouldn't be hauled over the coals by BCC parents twice in the same week.[/quote]

Which is stupid, because Monday's gun at school could have led to a mass shooting incident, so he should have locked down the school then.
But bomb threats at schools, historically and in this area, have always been bogus - and usually do not lead to lockdowns.

So it's a case of the Principal, yet again, possibly doing something stupid to compensate for doing something even stupider before. Which is par for the course for this Principal, unfortunately.

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Oh come on. Mooney can't win. I have no opinion about him because while I get frustrated with almost everything at BCC these days. It appears he has zero control over anything. MCPS won't even let him compose any communication.

If he didn't lock the school down and it was real, I'm sure he couldn't live with himself. He's a good person. Is he effective? I'm not sure. I'm not sure MCPS allows any principals to be effective.

So glad I was able to communicate with my son and go pick him up.
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I agree. The people here blaming Mooney clearly don't understand how bureaucracies work. I work in a much smaller organization than MCPS and despite having a leadership role, I cannot communicate to the public with legal and PR types reviewing every single word. There's no way a principal decides how to handle an incident involving weapons.

And to be honest nobody knows for sure who called in this bomb threat and whether it has any link to what happened earlier in the week. And we still don't have any hard facts about that either.[/quote]

AGAIN. IN MCPS, PRINCIPALS HAVE A LOT OF CONTROL OVER DECISIONS IN THEIR SCHOOLS, INCLUDING SAFETY DECISIONS. DO NOT LET MOONEY OFF THE HOOK IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT WORKS IN MCPS.

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