Anonymous wrote:If DCPS can make their schools safer certainly MCPS can. It is 2026. So many security companies work to prevent what happened today. MCPS is too cheap to invest in the safety of its students, faculty and staff. Of course it starts at home, but not every home is so great. Mental health resources that are actually available and affordable, stricter gun laws and of course let's make our schools up to date with security measures.

Jackson Reed HS was able to stop various weapons by using detectors. Not sure what they/community/district members did to get detection in place

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Anonymous wrote:Is there school tomorrow for Wootton students? Did Magruder open the next day?

Taylor said Wootton would resume school tomorrow in the press conference he just participated in.

Interesting it took 6+hrs to do one

It took that long to develop a narrative and run the talking points past Legal.

Any news on the ankle bracelet?

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Anonymous wrote:Is there school tomorrow for Wootton students? Did Magruder open the next day?

Taylor said Wootton would resume school tomorrow in the press conference he just participated in.

Interesting it took 6+hrs to do one

If DCPS can make their schools safer certainly MCPS can. It is 2026. So many security companies work to prevent what happened today. MCPS is too cheap to invest in the safety of its students, faculty and staff. Of course it starts at home, but not every home is so great. Mental health resources that are actually available and affordable, stricter gun laws and of course let's make our schools up to date with security measures.

Maybe Jones will be pressured to actually do something helpful now instead of just counting down to his double pension in a few years.

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Anonymous wrote:WJ and Blair ha e over 3,000 kids, and most HSs have over 2,000. ID checks are not the answer.

Ghost guns and kids opening the door for a friend will thwart metal detectors.

Stop making it so easy to get a gun
Treat mental health issues
Return SROs - they get to know the kids, and learn which ones are trouble v which ones are in trouble, and put a stop to a bunch of trouble before it happens

Agree with all of this.

Stop with the SROs there is no evidence they would stop school shootings

Someone’s child was shot today because the parents of the other child failed

Someone’s child was shot today because republicans won’t support common sense gun laws and those maga morons repeatedly denied Sandy hook and let Trump and his sycophants torture Parkland families Republicans won’t support mental health services.


FOCUS morons guns and mental heath are the problem and until adults start thinking like adults and stop their stupid cult nothing will be better for our kids.

Anonymous wrote:How many students were shot when Doug Nelson was principal?

Remember he was removed because he was alleged to have discouraged staff from completing required training by his supervisor. An allegation he was later exonerated of.

The answer is zero.

Perhaps his leadership could have prevented this.

Good night nelson

*kids

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone who has a student at Wootton confirm if the shooter had been wearing an ankle monitor? My child is telling me this but I don't know if this is complete hearsay.

"They" won't say

I heard that the victim had an ankle bracelet and him and another kid “jumped” the shooter prior to the incident. After which he came back with the gun. I read it in comments on YouTube Fox 5 live coverage chat. Lids were posting there from their phones while waiting in lockdown.

Anonymous wrote:How many students were shot when Doug Nelson was principal?

Remember he was removed because he was alleged to have discouraged staff from completing required training by his supervisor. An allegation he was later exonerated of.

The answer is zero.

Perhaps his leadership could have prevented this.

With his spidey sense for guns getting anywhere near campus? Or what other magical powers do you think he possesses?

How many students were shot when Doug Nelson was principal?

Remember he was removed because he was alleged to have discouraged staff from completing required training by his supervisor. An allegation he was later exonerated of.

The answer is zero.

Perhaps his leadership could have prevented this.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an honest question. If they do decide to put metal detectors in schools, would they just go at the main entrance or would they be up at every doorway? My HS has something like 65 doors that lead in and out of the building. Kids are always texting people to prop open side doors all day to get back in. How do we prevent that without breaking fire codes that prohibit locking these exits?

At the W high school my kid goes to there are only 2 doors that are open to get into the school in the morning. That’s where the IDs are checked.

At my upcounty HS, we have 65 doors but they only allow the students to come in through the front 4. We don't check IDs though. The issue is that at any time throughout the day, there is always a door somewhere in the school being propped open by a student to let a friend in.

Why not just auto lock them so they cannot do that?

Who's going to pay for the two extra staff members at each school constantly going around to close doors that have been propped open?

Anonymous wrote:WJ and Blair ha e over 3,000 kids, and most HSs have over 2,000. ID checks are not the answer.

Ghost guns and kids opening the door for a friend will thwart metal detectors.

Stop making it so easy to get a gun
Treat mental health issues
Return SROs - they get to know the kids, and learn which ones are trouble v which ones are in trouble, and put a stop to a bunch of trouble before it happens

Agree with all of this.

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Anonymous wrote:I have an honest question. If they do decide to put metal detectors in schools, would they just go at the main entrance or would they be up at every doorway? My HS has something like 65 doors that lead in and out of the building. Kids are always texting people to prop open side doors all day to get back in. How do we prevent that without breaking fire codes that prohibit locking these exits?

At the W high school my kid goes to there are only 2 doors that are open to get into the school in the morning. That’s where the IDs are checked.

At my upcounty HS, we have 65 doors but they only allow the students to come in through the front 4. We don't check IDs though. The issue is that at any time throughout the day, there is always a door somewhere in the school being propped open by a student to let a friend in.

Why not just auto lock them so they cannot do that?