We appreciate hearing from parents and students and school safety concerns. Our schools are safe. We have highly trained and committed staff of our own in place as well as others from outside agencies prepared to do whatever it takes to keep your child safe. We have made appropriate adjustments in our systems, tools, and personnel to address existing and potential concerns. Our number one goal is safety and our teams are practiced at keeping things safe.
We recognize that rumors exist about various concerns and we are addressing them as needed. Many rumors have been circulating this week, and we have been working in cooperation with law enforcement personnel to investigate each report of a rumor. To this point, none of the rumors has been found to have a basis in fact.
When one looks at where students are safest, it’s in their school, so please encourage your child to attend every day. We respect the right of parents and guardians to make decisions about school attendance, but feel that students will be safe every day at school. Please help by reassuring your student that the school is safe and that there is a large family of staff, volunteers, other parents and students who are here to help keep everyone safe.
Please keep in contact with your student’s school, should you have information that we haven’t learned about yet.
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25 comments:
This is a crock of ****
My child went to school today @ WIHI and all the parents who let there children stay home - WHY?! Rumors are rumors!!! Also, here's a solution - find out the kids who starting saying they were bringing guns to school and send their asses to jail, like they do to the people who said they have a bomb on the plane!! Also, Do not let them back into our schools- these kids today think they are so big and bad, Well lets show them how big and bad we are and don't let them come back and also figure out how funny and smart they think they are!!!
"We recognize that rumors exist about various concerns and we are addressing them as needed."
So nobody is concerned, and there are just rumors about people being concerned? Did this person even graduate high school? This is one really poor sentence.
I leave you with this, once they take ALL GUNS AWAY AND BAN THEM, and people are still dying as they have before guns, what are you going to do then?
since all you care about is gun control and that guns kill people instead of people killing people with inanimate objects?
I walked into Wi Hi yesterday without buzzing in. Some student inside the door hit the panic bar for me! I could easily had been carrying!
Hey 3:16 my son goes to Vienna elementary in dorchester county and they have NO buzzer on the door so thank your school for at least having some SECURITY we have NOTHING.
There was a buzzer on the door at Sandy Hook, but that didn't stop the monster.
Rumors huh? Bennett was literally surrounded by cops recently because gangs were talking about violence about to occurr. The Superintendent wouldn't know a rumor if it smacked him in his liberal head.
I hear you, Paul, and have been keeping up with your plight, thanks to this blog Mr. Albero runs. Bottom line, though, a system that doesn't work is not a system. Until the school staff is trained in concealed carry and is actively doing so, our kids are not safe. Our President and Congressmen are safe, though, because they have armed staff. Why should our children, our future Congress and Presidents, be held up for easy pickings each day in "Gun Free Zones"
Not one incident today in our schools so the joke is on you whomgotbsuckedvintonthese stupid rumors. Anything to get off a day of school.
417 at least they got some what of a notice be it minimal, there would be NO notice without it.
What about the student that was just admitted into WI Jr, he hasn't been in a public school for a long time, has been basically a ward of the state. He is classified as ED, been under camera surveillance and at times has been restrained with restraints. Now he's in a class with other students; how do we protect these other students? Does the teacher have the authority to restrain this person if they go off?
Safety isn't only about ensuring guns don't get in the schools. Safety should also be about the administration not creating a situation that has a high probability of endangering students. As a parent with kids in this school I'm not happy with this situation.
Here is my message to the Superintendant of Schools in Wicomico or any other County. If you think for a nano second that your teachers are trained and prepared to deal with an armed subject bent on shooting students and or teachers you have lost your mind, the children in any school in Wicomico County are no more prepared for an armed intrusion than those poor kids and teachers at Sandy Hook.To be prepared for a horrible event like Sandy Hook you have to be prepared.What has the Wicomico County BOE done that would keep out another Lanza throw erasers at him.I don't propose I know the perfect answer but I do know no matter what your liberal views are the schools need armed security and folks I for one don't really want to face an armed intruder with a sawed off shotgun against a Glock 9 m/m but it beats the hell out of throwing erasers.There are retired police officers,deputies and current career active duty police officers that will work off duty in our schools.How about our Military Guys just home from war looking for jobs, they know how to handle firearms obviously all they need is a little Civilian Police Training.I cannot believe I just read those completely ridiculous statements.Wake up folks I don't have any kids in school but I am no less concerned about their safety than you are if this yo yo is all you got to protect your kids they are in trouble.
Our kids are 150times more likely to die in a car crash thin a school shooting. Time to band cars.
It doesn't have to be a shooting that makes the schools unsafe. Are parents aware that a sixth grade girl was raped at Wi Middle a few weeks ago? I know this for a fact. Are you aware kids are jumped in and after school just because? A Co workers elementary school son was in the bathroom last week when they had a fire drill and came out to find an empty class. His teacher left him. The Beaver Run gym teacher was arrested last week for sex offender type behavior. I could go on and on....so NO, guns are not the only threat to our children. Sometimes its themselves, teachers, or the environment. In todays world we as parents need to be proactive.
Joe please post this, I normally do not write to your blog, but this topic has hit home for me and my community.
A few years ago my kids had a Wicomico Deputy in Mardela Middle and High School that was on top of school safety. All of the teachers, like it or not, participated in scenario drills involving trespassers and shooters in the school. I will admit that I thought he and the principals were going overboard, but now I’m glad they did it. Some parents complained that he was too militaristic and some thought they had better solutions and would talk to the deputy. He would listen and take what they said seriously and if it worked use the idea, if not he wouldn’t. My kids knew this particular deputy well because he was also assigned to the elementary schools they attended. They told me he and school staff conducted regular drills in the elementary schools as well. My children have graduated from high school and are now in college. They come back and attend home games in Mardela and visit friends and family. To their surprise they were told that the deputy they remember was moved and replaced by one who treated school safety like a second hand topic. The previous deputy was memorable for his personality and his appearance, specifically super shiny boots he would not let the kids scuff, but they tried. It’s very sad a dedicated cop that was so active was replaced by a deputy who can’t get from one end of the school to the other without losing his breath. I’m told the current Mardela cop is nice and treats the students ok, but everyone felt safer and more secure with the previous one.
Why, we as parents are not included in the process which places the schools’ only protection in place is beyond me. The school board and law enforcement agencies are either hoping school shootings won’t occur here or ignoring the potential for violence. The sheriff said in a statement himself,” We (sheriff’s office) can only do so much”. Oh please, place cops who are actually interested in the safety of our children and grandchildren in schools. Not personnel who they don’t know what else to do with, or the ones who want daytime hours with weekends and holidays off. The community should be part of the placement process for school safety. If not, then screw the cops and arm teachers with prior military service who know how to handle themselves.
A Veteran
Last week in gym a couple of thugs started beating on another child, there was no teacher around to stop it. After gym class, while in the locker room, again no teacher around, the thugs started beating on this kid again. The kid had had enough and kicked the one thugs butt. If there had been a teacher around the boy defending himself would probably have been suspended. Salisbury Middle School is loaded with thugs and wanna be thugs. Throw them out, they don't want to be in school. They are there because their parents don't want them hanging around at home.
439 thank you for your support, unfortunately its like pulling teeth in the system and i will be Damned that i should just sit by and wait for someone to protect ALL the Children, like i have been saying i am trying to be proactive instead of Reactive i also think that principles and VP should carry a handgun BC as much as i like and have worked ALL my life with police officers we cant wait 5 6 7 8 9 min for them to arrive someone has do do something.PS we protect our High School Middle Schools BUT the Most vulnerable the ELEMENTARY schools are WIDE OPEN for Assault WTF.
703 I feel your pain.
People stop talking out of your rectums. The bottom line is a goal driven shooter will do damage no matter who you have armed in a building be it a factory, school etc.. We can not lock down schools like a prisons. The shooter in Conn. was sick and delusional. In under two minutes he killed all those children. You would have to extend the perimeter to the far curteledge of the school to stop or hope to stop another shooting of this nature. I agree there should be at least one armed police officer in every school. Your are more likely to be struck by lightning then to be shot in a school. More juveniles are lost to suicide and drug overdose. Dont drink the Koolaid people.
The bottom line there is evil in this world. The liberal left has created a mess they can not fix. Our A.T.F. and President Ohblaablaa put assault weapons into the hands of Cartels. Those guns were used to kill a Boarder Patrol Agent. Where were all of you liberal cry babies then. His life meant nothing. Just a cop doing his job killed by a botched "Fast and Furious" operation. We re-elected him. We get what we get.
How do we find out from the Board of Ed. if there was a rape at Wi Middle? Were parents notified? Were Board members?
Every school needs to have a code red drill so students know what to do. Not all schools are doing this.
During the day what makes a school safer, students safe from other students?
Teachers monitor halls. Monitor between class changes, implment a hall monitor during classes and do not be silent when a there is a disturbance between student. Require conflict resolution as a part of the curiculmn in health class. Require wannbe thugs to do visible community service inside the school which benifits the school. Dont susspend students keep them in school in ISS, make it not a fun day off. Some schools and grades who have most kids who disturb class need a more military structured style classroom with a teacher who will not allow rude comments, unacceptable behavior and does not let them play Coolmath.com video games just to keep the peace.Most of these kids have no strong male presence or are not told NO, they run their parents then it is brought into the school.
Why are not all middle and High school student required to wear consistant attire and why are they on their cell phones in class?
No, parents were not notified. I live next to the child. I saw her bruises, know she went to the ER, and spoke to her. The boy was suspended. Her family is pursuing criminal charges. This is not the first time this has happened in the school. Sit in a juvenile court room a few times and listen to the details. You would be shocked to hear some of what has happened in our schools.
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