Police respond to gun rumors at Glasgow
Rumors about a student bringing a gun to Glasgow Middle School led to a heavy police presence at the school on April 13.
Principal Victor Powell sent a message to Glasgow families April 12 stating, “Earlier this week, there was a fight between several students outside of our main office. One of our assistant principals was struck during the incident but was not seriously hurt. All of the students involved are receiving disciplinary consequences in alignment with our Student Rights and Responsibilities.”
“There are now third and fourth-hand anonymous rumors spreading around school that a student also threatened to bring a gun to school on April 13,” Powell said. “We are fully investigating these rumors in partnership with our Office of Safety and Security and the Fairfax County Police.”
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According to Powell, students who may be involved have been identified and their families have been contacted, as the investigation continues.
Nevertheless, additional uniformed school security and police patrols were at the school on April 13. The short break at the end of the quarter – with an early release on Thursday and no school on Friday – “will give students time to reset and come back to school following the expectations of behavior that we have for all: respect, kindness, and resolving our issues with healthy and safe choices,” Powell said.
Communication could have been handled better. Social media was alerting the parents to the allegations long before any communication from the school went out.
I am appreciative of the communication that occurred. I didn’t know about it, and of course social media is always going to be ahead of official communications. But you also get a bunch of noise from it too.
All things considered, this was handled well. Just hope they give real consequences to those involved.
Sad when a small town school has issues like this. An issue I came across is many administrators do not know how to deal with the different ethnicities and how they communicate amongst each other. If no one takes the time to listen and understand that a child’s environment dictates the way the speak and interact with others. When it’s one ethnicity and they’re using language that other’s can’t and shouldn’t use, it’s an issue because then someone else states they’re being racist, well first off racist to me means a human, so if someone is racist, wouldn’t that mean that they don’t like humans? Term should be ethnicitist. Point I’m making is kid’s speak the way their environment or demographics is. An ethnic group shouldn’t be punished for something that is common in life. This system needs to have some education about the demographics they deal with. I’m sure that fight was generated outside of school and just escalated while at school.
Part of a taxpayer funded public education is to blend the population of different views & ethnic backgrounds into one that honors and supports the freedom, values and responsibility provided by our nation & system of government. Unfortunately, professional educators gave up on the “melting pot” approach for the “tossed salad” way. Thus, each and every different group is no longer engaged or encouraged to bend or have common ethics & values. It’s called multiculturalism, and continues to divide us. Different cultures/ethnicities are good but all have join and blend (adding to our country), & that includes all groups having open minds and agreeing to change. Not getting any better soon I fear.
The time for trying to fix public education has passed. Pull your children and put them in traditional religious private schools.
What was that fight all about? Did it involve any of the issues you brought up? It most likely did not involve anything you brought up.