Anonymous wrote:Dr. Reid says older FCPS students receive gun safety lessons. My 11th grader says she has never learned anything about guns from FCPS. Have your kids had these lessons?

I don’t want FCPS giving gun lessons to my kids.

Dr. Reid says older FCPS students receive gun safety lessons. My 11th grader says she has never learned anything about guns from FCPS. Have your kids had these lessons?

Westfield parent again.

The email from the principal Wednesday night was a form letter about a student death. No context. No details. It was more alarming to later hear a student was murdered and another shot at. I don’t blame the principal for not saying more, it was an active investigation at the time.

What I don’t appreciate is principal not addressing kids being questioned by police officers - were their parents even notified? Or the TV cameras outside the school for the past two days. Or whether the incident took place on the victims way home from school. Perhaps some of this needs to come home from FCPD, but more communication is needed with Westfield parents.

I’m sorry for the victims and their families, truly. However, I want to know my child is safe at school and to/from schools. They still have not addressed if the victims were in school Wednesday and walking home from bus.

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of this kid.

No one is blaming fcps. Some Westfield families felt the school should have communicated more information yesterday.

The transfers in/out has been posted on here and yes, Westfield had a lot going out and that's just a fact. If the belligerent poster wants to dig it up, he should do that.

Do people think Westfield is bad, or just too big? And if the latter maybe they ought to slow down before they expand Centreville to 3000.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of this kid.

No one is blaming fcps. Some Westfield families felt the school should have communicated more information yesterday.

The transfers in/out has been posted on here and yes, Westfield had a lot going out and that's just a fact. If the belligerent poster wants to dig it up, he should do that.

FCPS shouldn’t be blamed for the actions of this kid.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a suggestion early on like the shooter may have been in school all day with a gun and then ridden the bus home. That was fear mongering. Now we know that didn’t happen. Now there are some saying it was near an FCPS bus stop. We don’t know. All we know is the shooter is a loser.

You seem really, really focused on the idea that people who are justifiably concerned are "fear mongering." The questions in this thread have been pretty reasonable. Asking if it happened near a bus stop is pretty reasonable. Not everything is a conspiracy. People have a right to be concerned.

There is at least one and possibly a few posters on this thread who seem entirely focused on keeping any association with the murder from the school system than informing the community or making sure the kids are safe at schools or out in their neighborhoods. I wonder why that is.

This. At least one poster on this thread has an agenda, and it isn't the concerned parents.

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Anonymous wrote:So I guess the matter was deemed too serious for the Westfield principal to communicate about and the superintendent took over.

Disagree. This is county-wide news, appropriate for the superintendent to respond to.

+1. I have a child at Westfield and don't see anything wrong with it.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a suggestion early on like the shooter may have been in school all day with a gun and then ridden the bus home. That was fear mongering. Now we know that didn’t happen. Now there are some saying it was near an FCPS bus stop. We don’t know. All we know is the shooter is a loser.

You seem really, really focused on the idea that people who are justifiably concerned are "fear mongering." The questions in this thread have been pretty reasonable. Asking if it happened near a bus stop is pretty reasonable. Not everything is a conspiracy. People have a right to be concerned.

There is at least one and possibly a few posters on this thread who seem entirely focused on keeping any association with the murder from the school system than informing the community or making sure the kids are safe at schools or out in their neighborhoods. I wonder why that is.

agree, and it is very off.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Leave it to DCUM to prioritize grammar and pyramid boundaries (the suspect couldn’t possibly be from this zone 😮, must be from that high school we trash). A child is dead. I’m sure we’ll start hearing about the flight out of the zone here soon.

Westfield is not one of the sought after FCPS high schools to begin with. Way more kids transfer out of it. It has a pretty big percentage of poor kids from Herndon and the Stone area.

LOL This is not true but keep spreading your Fairfax parent BS.

Which part isn't true? Way more transfers out of Westfield then in.
Lots of poor kids from the London Towne area, the Coates area, and the aforementioned Meadows trailer park.

NP. Bolded above is not wrong. It’s not a sought after neighborhood by any means. PP is just stating facts.

If it's a face site numbers and where you are getting your data. We'll wait.

Sorry, not your research assistant. I'm right about the transfers and the poor neighborhoods zoned to Westfield. Look it all up yourself.

Thats a cute way of saying you know nothing about the transfers. There are poor neighborhoods zoned to almost every FCPS school-look it up.

Anonymous wrote:So I guess the matter was deemed too serious for the Westfield principal to communicate about and the superintendent took over.

Disagree. This is county-wide news, appropriate for the superintendent to respond to.

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Anonymous wrote:Leave it to DCUM to prioritize grammar and pyramid boundaries (the suspect couldn’t possibly be from this zone 😮, must be from that high school we trash). A child is dead. I’m sure we’ll start hearing about the flight out of the zone here soon.

Westfield is not one of the sought after FCPS high schools to begin with. Way more kids transfer out of it. It has a pretty big percentage of poor kids from Herndon and the Stone area.

LOL This is not true but keep spreading your Fairfax parent BS.

Which part isn't true? Way more transfers out of Westfield then in.
Lots of poor kids from the London Towne area, the Coates area, and the aforementioned Meadows trailer park.

Sure, there are students with economic disadvantages at Westfield, but almost every FCPS high school has students with economic disadvantage.

Westfield also has all of Virginia Run, several neighborhoods in the Floris area, Emerald Chase, Sully Station, and a handful of other middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods in its boundaries.

Additionally, there is nothing wrong with being poor, and being poor doesn't make you a criminal, a degenerate, or any less worthy, so it really shouldn't matter how wealthy or poor a child or family is.

So I guess the matter was deemed too serious for the Westfield principal to communicate about and the superintendent took over.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a suggestion early on like the shooter may have been in school all day with a gun and then ridden the bus home. That was fear mongering. Now we know that didn’t happen. Now there are some saying it was near an FCPS bus stop. We don’t know. All we know is the shooter is a loser.

You seem really, really focused on the idea that people who are justifiably concerned are "fear mongering." The questions in this thread have been pretty reasonable. Asking if it happened near a bus stop is pretty reasonable. Not everything is a conspiracy. People have a right to be concerned.

There is at least one and possibly a few posters on this thread who seem entirely focused on keeping any association with the murder from the school system than informing the community or making sure the kids are safe at schools or out in their neighborhoods. I wonder why that is.

agree, and it is very off.

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Anonymous wrote:Leave it to DCUM to prioritize grammar and pyramid boundaries (the suspect couldn’t possibly be from this zone 😮, must be from that high school we trash). A child is dead. I’m sure we’ll start hearing about the flight out of the zone here soon.

Westfield is not one of the sought after FCPS high schools to begin with. Way more kids transfer out of it. It has a pretty big percentage of poor kids from Herndon and the Stone area.

LOL This is not true but keep spreading your Fairfax parent BS.

Which part isn't true? Way more transfers out of Westfield then in.
Lots of poor kids from the London Towne area, the Coates area, and the aforementioned Meadows trailer park.

NP. Bolded above is not wrong. It’s not a sought after neighborhood by any means. PP is just stating facts.

If it's a face site numbers and where you are getting your data. We'll wait.

Sorry, not your research assistant. I'm right about the transfers and the poor neighborhoods zoned to Westfield. Look it all up yourself.