Thursday, May 2, 2013
Michelle Miller, a Rockville High School lacrosse player, was fatally shot April 8.
On a night normally reserved for honoring the home team's senior class, Watkins Mill's girls lacrosse team also honored a fallen member of the opposing team. Hosting Rockville High School on April 25, Wolverines' head coach Vinnie Naylor painted the stadium field with Michelle Miller’s initials and jersey number. Miller, a member of Rockville's varsity lacrosse team, was shot and killed in a murder-suicide in Germantown April 8. "For this game, our players and coaches put on an amazing display of sportsmanship and character," Watkins Mill principal Scott Murphy said in the school's newsletter. "Our teams presented the Rockville players with special ribbons and bracelets in memory of Michelle Miller." After the game, the two teams gathered …
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The school system will conduct a search to replace Rockville High School Principal Debra S. Munk, an MCPS spokesman said.
Rockville High School principal Debra S. Munk will leave be leaving the Rams to train fledgling Montgomery County public school principals. Her appointment as a “consulting principal” for the Department of Professional Growth System was made during the board of education meeting Tuesday. The job takes effect July 1. MCPS Spokesman Dana Tofig said the school system would be conducting a principal search for Munk’s replacement. A position usually held by veteran principals, a consulting principal works with new and underperforming principals to help improve performance and student outcomes, Tofig said. At the end of the three-year assignment, Tofig said, Munk would probably be placed in another position within the district. The news comes …
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The circumstances behind his marriage might have violated Army policy, an Army spokeswoman told The Gazette.
The U.S. Army staff sergeant involved in the Germantown murder-suicide was already under investigation for marrying a former recruit, an Army spokeswoman told The Gazette. An investigation of Staff Sgt. Adam Ardnt began in March after discovering Ardnt had married Kaitlyn Amy Schum Ardnt, who was recruited at the Army recruiting center in Gaithersburg, The Gazette reports. Recruiters are not supposed to have personal relationships with recruits. On April 8, Montgomery County police found the bodies of Adam Ardnt and 17-year-old Michelle Miller in the Army staff sergeant’s Germantown home. Miller, a senior at Rockville High School, had enlisted in the Army Reserve, Patch has reported. The deaths are being investigated as a murder-suicide. A…
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Police said Army recruiter Adam Ardnt shot a 17-year-old Rockville High School Student before killing himself.
The Army plans to investigate a military recruiter’s relationship with recruits after he shot and killed a Rockville student he met through a recruiting center, WJLA reports. Police said Adam Ardnt, 31-year-old Army staff sergeant, shot 17-year-old Michelle Miller before killing himself at his Germantown home on Monday. Miller had enlisted in the Army Reserves, several news outlets have reported. Friends, family and the Rockville High School community held a vigil for Miller Tuesday, sending balloons with special messages into the sky, according to several news accounts. Rockville Principal Debra Munk was among mourners tweeting photos throughout the ceremony. But as the community grieves, more details are emerging about the nature of the …
Monday, April 8, 2013
Online condolences poured out Monday, as the community mourned the death of Rockville High School student, Michelle Miller, 17.
Police said the 17-year-old senior was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide.
The halls of Rockville High School were full of tearful students and nearby parking lots were dotted with television news trucks Monday as a community processed what happened to one of its own. Michelle Miller, a 17-year-old senior, was shot and killed by Adam Anthony Arndt, 31, an Army staff sergeant, who then turned the gun on himself at his home in Germantown, Montgomery County police said. Miller, who had been reported missing, knew Arndt because she had plans to enlist in the U.S. Army Reserve after she graduated, police said. Kevin Miller told WJLA that his daughter left home at 9:15 p.m. Sunday, sent him vague information via text about where she was and then stopped replying and answering her phone calls. Her father called police …
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Police are treating the shooting death of Michelle Miller, 17, as a murder-suicide.
A Rockville High School student was shot and killed by a 31-year-old Army staff sergeant, who then turned the gun on himself inside his Germantown home, Montgomery County police said in a news release. Michelle Miller, 17, of the 5100 block of Russett Road in Rockville, was found dead Monday morning in the home of Adam Anthony Arndt, 31, of the 12900 block of Pinnacle Drive, police said. Investigators are treating the deaths as a murder-suicide. Police said Miller and Arndt knew each other because she had plans to enlist in the U.S. Army Reserve after she graduated from high school. The bodies were discovered around 10 a.m. by police who were following up on a tip that the Miller was at Arndt’s residence, police said. Police had to force …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Teen from Rockville High School tells NBC4 she was sent home Wednesday because her outfit was “inappropriate”
While leggings may seem like a ubiquitous fashion staple for suburban hipsters around Washington, they weren’t well received at a Rockville school on Wednesday. NBC4 reports that a Rockville High School student was sent home for violating the school’s dress code. The student told the TV station she was wearing black leggings and a shirt that was “shorter than finger-tip length.” The teen’s mom defended her daughter, NBC4 reports: “Girls should not be dressing provocatively in school because it, quote, distracts the boys, but that is not the case; this is not distracting,” her mother said. “This [outfit] is not inappropriate.” You can watch and read NBC4’s account at NBCWashington.com. The school’s dress code officially calls out leggings …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Debra Munk has won awards, accolades in more than seven years at Rockville's helm.
Rockville High School Principal Debra Munk is one of three finalists for superintendent of the Ashland, OR, School District, the district announced Friday. The six-school district serves the southern Oregon city of about 20,000 people about 10 miles north of the California border and 75 miles east of the Pacific Ocean. The Ashland job is “one of several opportunities I’m looking at,” Munk said Friday. “I’ve been at Rockville for eight years and love it,” she said. “My blood is orange. I’ve been sort of thinking, ‘Maybe I’m getting a little restless’ and looking at some other options.” The Ashland School District has 3,000 students and 300 employees at Ashland High School, Ashland Middle School and Bellview, Helman, John Muir and Walker …
Friday, January 11, 2013
Twenty-three of the county school system's students—the largest number ever for the system—will receive full-tuition, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation.
Twenty-three Montgomery County students—the largest number ever for the school system—will receive full-tuition, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation, the school system announced in a news release. "The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes," according to the statement. The full-tuition scholarships are offered by 44 colleges and universities, which create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. "These student teams receive professional guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another. On campus, these students serve in important leadership …
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11:53 pm on Sunday, May 12, 2013
Mary Mary, you should read what just reported in the Washington Ppst today. Pentagon grapples with sex crimes by military recruiters By Craig Whitlock Military recruiters across the country have been caught in a string of sex-crime scandals over the past year, exposing another long-standing problem for the Defense Department as it grapples with a crisis of sexual assault in the ranks. In Alaska, … more ›