Safety in schools

[Anonymous]

How's it going at your school after the break?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How's it going at your school after the break?

About the same as before, for good or ill.

[Anonymous]

What's the latest at your school?

[Anonymous]

This is a must-see board meeting for anyone concerned about safety and security in MCPS:

Watch the public comments and the discussion that follows and then the last hour, where Brian Hull and MCPS staff give a lackluster presentation and then proceed to get verbally slapped by nearly every board member.

[Anonymous]

I like how mcea and mcps try to clear house of good teachers when it is common knowledge of the violence, data manipulation and zero support teachers get when their schools are very chaotic. Teachers are easy to blame and it is a good choice that we are leaving the profession .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a must-see board meeting for anyone concerned about safety and security in MCPS:

Watch the public comments and the discussion that follows and then the last hour, where Brian Hull and MCPS staff give a lackluster presentation and then proceed to get verbally slapped by nearly every board member.

And then what? What positive results have occured in the schools after verbally slapping McPS staff?

[Anonymous]

[‘Why is nothing being done?’: Concerns grow about drug use, fighting in Montgomery Co. school bathrooms]
Kate Ryan | kryan wtop com April 18, 2024

"For many students in Montgomery County public schools, the bathrooms remain a no-go zone due to drug use and fighting.

That’s according to testimony at the most recent Board of Education meeting on April 11.

During the public comment segment of the meeting, David Gebler, an English teacher at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, told board members that often, “the halls reek of marijuana.”

“Usually, drug use occurs in our bathrooms,” Gebler said. “But vaping directly in the hall is becoming popular.”

“Last school year, we had vape detection sensors active in our bathrooms to detect drug use. They were removed over the summer without the knowledge of our new and incoming administration,” Gebler told the board, adding that there are also reports of unknown persons entering school grounds to engage in drug trade.

Gebler insisted that the issues he mentioned were not unique to Kennedy High School.

Montgomery County student member of the board Sami Saeed appeared clearly frustrated as he told the members of the board he knew exactly what students are saying.

“The fights are getting out of hand, the bathrooms are not being monitored,” Saeed said.

Saeed, who authored a resolution on school safety and security that was approved by the board in November, said he just recently asked students to give him feedback on school safety.

“The number one thing they said was literally ‘why is nothing being done?’ That’s what they told me,” Saeed explained to the board.

Acting chief safety officer Adaeze Ezeofor-Andrews told Saeed that she “wholeheartedly” agreed that the school system needs to move faster on updating security improvements, but that it would require collaboration.

“We have our work cut out for us,” Ezeofor-Andrews said. “Our shop can’t do it alone.”

In an April 2 letter to the MCPS community, interim superintendent Monique Felder said that adding security cameras, weapons and vape detectors are under consideration “for the future.” She added that there is continuous monitoring of school grounds, and urged parents with concerns to contact their principals.

“These things should have been addressed six months ago, while we’re saying it’s going to be next year,” Saeed said."]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a must-see board meeting for anyone concerned about safety and security in MCPS:

Watch the public comments and the discussion that follows and then the last hour, where Brian Hull and MCPS staff give a lackluster presentation and then proceed to get verbally slapped by nearly every board member.

And then what? What positive results have occured in the schools after verbally slapping McPS staff?

How are we the public supposed to know what happened after? One would hope that the staff and leadership would feel shame and reflect on their failures and do better after a meeting like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a must-see board meeting for anyone concerned about safety and security in MCPS:

Watch the public comments and the discussion that follows and then the last hour, where Brian Hull and MCPS staff give a lackluster presentation and then proceed to get verbally slapped by nearly every board member.

And then what? What positive results have occured in the schools after verbally slapping McPS staff?

How are we the public supposed to know what happened after? One would hope that the staff and leadership would feel shame and reflect on their failures and do better after a meeting like this.

If mcPS wanted to, they could take action quick. Remember, the policy of students of schools playing the game can attend football games everyone else has to be accompanied by an adult, after fighting at a game. That change happened almost overnight. Stuff like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a must-see board meeting for anyone concerned about safety and security in MCPS:

Watch the public comments and the discussion that follows and then the last hour, where Brian Hull and MCPS staff give a lackluster presentation and then proceed to get verbally slapped by nearly every board member.

And then what? What positive results have occured in the schools after verbally slapping McPS staff?

How are we the public supposed to know what happened after? One would hope that the staff and leadership would feel shame and reflect on their failures and do better after a meeting like this.

If mcPS wanted to, they could take action quick. Remember, the policy of students of schools playing the game can attend football games everyone else has to be accompanied by an adult, after fighting at a game. That change happened almost overnight. Stuff like that.

I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Seems like this is mostly fear mongering because I'm just not seeing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like this is mostly fear mongering because I'm just not seeing it.

Are you a student or staff at a HS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like this is mostly fear mongering because I'm just not seeing it.

Are you a student or staff at a HS?

dp.. ^PP must be an MCPS admin

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/04/why-is-nothing-being-done-concerns-grow-about-drug-use-fighting-in-montgomery-co-school-bathrooms/

teachers, students see it.

[Anonymous]

MCPS likes to say how they listen to the students, well, listen up.. students are complaining about the bathrooms and school safety, while MCPS sits on their a$$es doing nothing.

SMOB brought it up, but the "adults" are saying, "we will look into it".

I honestly don't understand why the so called adults in charge don't see this as an urgent issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like this is mostly fear mongering because I'm just not seeing it.

Are you a student or staff at a HS?

dp.. ^PP must be an MCPS admin

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/04/why-is-nothing-being-done-concerns-grow-about-drug-use-fighting-in-montgomery-co-school-bathrooms/

teachers, students see it.

That's odd since I'm staff, and I just don't see it either. Sure, there are problems, but nothing like what is being portrayed here.