Anonymous wrote:It’s not McKnights fault. That being said - she is not up to the job.

If nothing is ever her fault then let’s just concede that bad luck follows this lady around and if that’s the case we need to get her as far away from here as possible.

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Anonymous wrote:What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

A BB gun? Like in A Christmas Story and like my kid shoots at Cub Scout camp? Stop it with the drama.

You realize that “bb guns” just look like real guns now right? Like exactly the same.

Ok, so a student brought a replica gun. So it looked like classmates around him were in danger but no one actually was.

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Anonymous wrote:"Dr. McNight is stuck in traffic."

It takes a while to get from PG to Rockville on a Friday afternoon.

Does she really live in PG?

Why wasn’t she heading to the scene immediately after it happened?

Why isn’t she working in the office?

It's 10 minutes from her MCPS office to Magruder right now.

Well, they had barricaded the road so that nobody could get on or out. It’s possible that’s why she was stuck - no access to Muncaster Mill Rd. near the school.

I am not understanding how this is her fault, or what MCPS could have done to prevent this.

Apparently nothing is ever this lady’s fault. If we are going to play this game at least tell me now what I can hold her accountable for.

I’m the PP and I think she should be held accountable for the poor communication around Covid guidelines, etc; I was as frustrated as everyone else. But I am not faulting her for being stuck in traffic on a barricaded road. I also (genuinely) don’t understand how she’s responsible for today’s shooting, so I’m open to hearing feedback.

LOL Please stop. How did the others get through? Helicopters? She wasn't anywhere near the school for an hour. If she was they would have had her at the mic at 4:45 with everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

A BB gun? Like in A Christmas Story and like my kid shoots at Cub Scout camp? Stop it with the drama.

You realize that “bb guns” just look like real guns now right? Like exactly the same.

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Anonymous wrote:"Dr. McNight is stuck in traffic."

It takes a while to get from PG to Rockville on a Friday afternoon.

Does she really live in PG?

Why wasn’t she heading to the scene immediately after it happened?

Why isn’t she working in the office?

It's 10 minutes from her MCPS office to Magruder right now.

Well, they had barricaded the road so that nobody could get on or out. It’s possible that’s why she was stuck - no access to Muncaster Mill Rd. near the school.

I am not understanding how this is her fault, or what MCPS could have done to prevent this.

Apparently nothing is ever this lady’s fault. If we are going to play this game at least tell me now what I can hold her accountable for.

I’m the PP and I think she should be held accountable for the poor communication around Covid guidelines, etc; I was as frustrated as everyone else. But I am not faulting her for being stuck in traffic on a barricaded road. I also (genuinely) don’t understand how she’s responsible for today’s shooting, so I’m open to hearing feedback.

Anonymous wrote:What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

A BB gun? Like in A Christmas Story and like my kid shoots at Cub Scout camp? Stop it with the drama.

It’s not McKnights fault. That being said - she is not up to the job.

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Anonymous wrote:"Dr. McNight is stuck in traffic."

It takes a while to get from PG to Rockville on a Friday afternoon.

Does she really live in PG?

Why wasn’t she heading to the scene immediately after it happened?

Why isn’t she working in the office?

It's 10 minutes from her MCPS office to Magruder right now.

Well, they had barricaded the road so that nobody could get on or out. It’s possible that’s why she was stuck - no access to Muncaster Mill Rd. near the school.

I am not understanding how this is her fault, or what MCPS could have done to prevent this.

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And for those unfamiliar with midcounty roads, Muncaster Mill Rd. is a two lane road for miles, without many turnoffs or alternate ways to route around an accident or blockage. The backup leading up to the police blockade was miles, and no way to get around.

Do you not watch television? They would have let her through. She wasn't there. Period

Whoever it is from MCPS that thinks they are being clever coming on here and defending her like this, be known that you are doing a terrible job and making both McKnight and MCPS look worse. The more you guys lie the more people will turn against you.

Anonymous wrote:What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:Watching the press conference and just feeling disturbed. McKnight literally thanked everyone in county government and MCPS before expressing any concern about the student who’s been shot or even saying anything about safety in schools. She then incredibly finished her statement blaming society. How pathetic. The absolute worst though is not once did she say that this was unacceptable and that guns in schools were unacceptable. It’s incredible. I don’t understand it.

Isn't that like saying water is wet?

She had the time to talk about helping kids use their words but couldn’t be bothered to preface that by saying that this cannot stand? You tell me why it’s important to emphasize the need to be empathetic to a school shooter but not emphasize how unacceptable this is? It’s unprecedented in our county. Words matter and I don’t feel very assured that she’s serious about keeping guns out of our schools and based on her statement she seems equally concerned about helping schools shooters as she is about protecting the safety of students.

It’s unacceptable.

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Anonymous wrote:"Dr. McNight is stuck in traffic."

It takes a while to get from PG to Rockville on a Friday afternoon.

Does she really live in PG?

Why wasn’t she heading to the scene immediately after it happened?

Why isn’t she working in the office?

It's 10 minutes from her MCPS office to Magruder right now.

Well, they had barricaded the road so that nobody could get on or out. It’s possible that’s why she was stuck - no access to Muncaster Mill Rd. near the school.

I am not understanding how this is her fault, or what MCPS could have done to prevent this.

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And for those unfamiliar with midcounty roads, Muncaster Mill Rd. is a two lane road for miles, without many turnoffs or alternate ways to route around an accident or blockage. The backup leading up to the police blockade was miles, and no way to get around.

Do you not watch television? They would have let her through. She wasn't there. Period

What makes this so sad is this is teh SECOND incident of a student bringing a gun to school TODAY. There was a BB gun brought to Wheaton HS this morning:

Private school is looking better and better...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Dr. McNight is stuck in traffic."

It takes a while to get from PG to Rockville on a Friday afternoon.

Does she really live in PG?

Why wasn’t she heading to the scene immediately after it happened?

Why isn’t she working in the office?

It's 10 minutes from her MCPS office to Magruder right now.

Well, they had barricaded the road so that nobody could get on or out. It’s possible that’s why she was stuck - no access to Muncaster Mill Rd. near the school.

I am not understanding how this is her fault, or what MCPS could have done to prevent this.

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And for those unfamiliar with midcounty roads, Muncaster Mill Rd. is a two lane road for miles, without many turnoffs or alternate ways to route around an accident or blockage. The backup leading up to the police blockade was miles, and no way to get around.

Yet somehow Elrich, Rice, SA McCarthy were all able to get there and they had to wait for McKnight who works 10 minutes away but lives 45 minutes away.

I've had it with this lady.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS, including Magruder HS, dropped the resource officer program in the school because some parents accused the resource officer of being racist (since many of the students that are questioned or detained were students of color).......even though many of the resource officers were officer of color themselves!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-schools-police-officer-program/2021/08/25/99fe70d2-058b-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html

Not to say having a resource officer would have prevented this but this is just a continuing process of labeling all police officer as racist. Sure, there are some bad cops but many are good people with family and kids of their own and just want to get home safe to be with their families. By denigrating the profession, police academy will have less qualified applicants resulting in a decrease quality of officers.......very sad.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, I know this is just "gossip" but my HSer said it was due to an argument between two people. No less frightening, though.

Still means a gun was brought to school.

My kid had an argument with a kid at school. Does this mean he has to worry about the kid showing up with a gun now?