Anonymous wrote:Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

How about showing us the plan to prevent this? Sadly it was only a matter of time.

Wootton Pkway was backed up before you could even get to Scott Dr. Parents waited for hours on clogged roads. Frost is not an appropriate reunification spot as the roads can’t handle the traffic. They are single lane roads all around. They really need to revisit their plans.

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Anonymous wrote:They had busses to pick up the Frost kids and drop them at their usual stops - but Wootton parents had to co e to Frost in person, show government ID, then each kid had to sign out, and many had to walk a mile back to their cars?

There was no food or water for the kids for hours. They had to leave all their belongings at Wootton except for purses and cell phones.

Make this make sense.

They dismissed students from cluster schools ( ES and MS). Came back to get Wootton HS students to bring them to reunification site at Frost. Depends on situation/incident --- typically site of incident doesn't serve as the reunification point.

There were still a bunch of Frost kids there when I was waiting in a line of parents stretching to Scott Drive.

Well obviously. The kids who don't get picked up until later, or their parents who didn't get to the schools with backed up traffic or had to go to get the kids after the bus ride. Etc.

No. Frost parents were told that busses were coming to take their children home, but at least some of those busses did not arrive at the school until 6:30pm. Children were finally getting home from the bus close to 7pm.

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Anonymous wrote:They had busses to pick up the Frost kids and drop them at their usual stops - but Wootton parents had to co e to Frost in person, show government ID, then each kid had to sign out, and many had to walk a mile back to their cars?

There was no food or water for the kids for hours. They had to leave all their belongings at Wootton except for purses and cell phones.

Make this make sense.

They dismissed students from cluster schools ( ES and MS). Came back to get Wootton HS students to bring them to reunification site at Frost. Depends on situation/incident --- typically site of incident doesn't serve as the reunification point.

There were still a bunch of Frost kids there when I was waiting in a line of parents stretching to Scott Drive.

Well obviously. The kids who don't get picked up until later, or their parents who didn't get to the schools with backed up traffic or had to go to get the kids after the bus ride. Etc.

Anonymous wrote:Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

So what should they have done?

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Anonymous wrote:They had busses to pick up the Frost kids and drop them at their usual stops - but Wootton parents had to co e to Frost in person, show government ID, then each kid had to sign out, and many had to walk a mile back to their cars?

There was no food or water for the kids for hours. They had to leave all their belongings at Wootton except for purses and cell phones.

Make this make sense.

They dismissed students from cluster schools ( ES and MS). Came back to get Wootton HS students to bring them to reunification site at Frost. Depends on situation/incident --- typically site of incident doesn't serve as the reunification point.

There were still a bunch of Frost kids there when I was waiting in a line of parents stretching to Scott Drive.

Anonymous wrote:They had busses to pick up the Frost kids and drop them at their usual stops - but Wootton parents had to co e to Frost in person, show government ID, then each kid had to sign out, and many had to walk a mile back to their cars?

There was no food or water for the kids for hours. They had to leave all their belongings at Wootton except for purses and cell phones.

Make this make sense.

They dismissed students from cluster schools ( ES and MS). Came back to get Wootton HS students to bring them to reunification site at Frost. Depends on situation/incident --- typically site of incident doesn't serve as the reunification point.

Anonymous wrote:Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

I am so glad you said something. I’m a former MCPS teacher and a volunteer firefighter/EMT with a neighboring county. There was a school I taught at that had such an abysmal fire drill procedure I almost wanted to call the fire marshall it was that chaotic. I’m dead serious. My concerns were blown off by administration.

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Anonymous wrote:Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

And....then?

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Anonymous wrote:Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

And....then?

Original poster here- I’m in a leadership position at a MCPS school and we have been forced to practice these drills. I mentioned at the time that these safety plans would lead to further trauma and was shut down by admin. Now seeing this unfold in real time is beyond infuriating. Parents- ask your school’s admin for copies of their reunification plan and show the board how inefficient and downright dangerous the logistics are of these safety plans.

They had busses to pick up the Frost kids and drop them at their usual stops - but Wootton parents had to co e to Frost in person, show government ID, then each kid had to sign out, and many had to walk a mile back to their cars?

There was no food or water for the kids for hours. They had to leave all their belongings at Wootton except for purses and cell phones.

Make this make sense.

Thoughts and prayers to ALL

No explanation will make any sense
No plan
Ongoing investigation

Can someone explain how holding traumatized students for hours, to reunite each individual student to their parent, doesn’t traumatize the students even more? Parents from Wootton are lined up down the streets into the evening to reunite with their children does NOT seem like an appropriate response. I get they need to keep track of students, but this is beyond painful to watch and the community should not be forced to wait to take their child home from school.