FINALLY — @mcps met with the community to discuss what occurred @MagruderHS on January 21. Honestly, I can’t imagine the school staff handling it better, but finally, the details emerged!! My favorite parts… 1/
@mcps apologized. In my 10 years as an advocate, tonight marks the second time I’ve heard @mcps leaders admit publicly mistakes were made. That was important. 2/
No one expects a crisis to go perfectly. But when @mcps glosses over the missteps, it doesn’t honor the experience. I appreciated @mcps acknowledging there were folks that shouldn’t have been allowed to access the building. WE WERE IN LOCKDOWN!!! 3/
They didn’t name names, but @McCarthyMoCo confused our community by walking across the campus and entering the building. Lockdown is lockdown. Curious elected officials should have been locked out. (Sorry) 4/
And, @mcps made clear they learned their lesson — reunification THEN press conference. That was NONSENSE holding our kids while McKnight and @mcpnews 5/
I doubt we will see another community required to wait 10 months before @mcps meets with them. So that’s good. That’s what advocates want — to see progress!! If @MCPSSafety issues a new After Action without community input, we’ll return to @mocoboe. 6/
And, when @mcps requires the Chief to apologize to the advocates in the same public forum she used to discredit us, then we’ll really know the integrity has returned to @mocoboe. 7/7
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