taxes and funding for MCPS need to be drastically cut in MoCo

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools are unhealthy for normal people.

Public schools are one of the greatest inventions in history and people like you make me sick

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Anonymous wrote:What a ridiculous post. The principal should have told the kids there was no threat but has no reason to send an email to parents immediately.

And even if you disagree jumping from there to cutting funds for MCPS is just dumb, or I guess trolltastic

This. I'm shocked that parents are in uproar about this. Take a step back and analyze what happened:

*2 girls decided to be stupid and get drunk before school
*They show up drunk at school and pass out in the bathroom
*Kids found them and reported to admin, 911 gets called
*everyone at the school panics and rumors start going nuts
*Principal sends out a notification at the end of the school day after waiting for MCPS central office to approve the email
*Parents like OP start making calls to cut funds to MCPS.

Since when did parents obtain the right to be notified of health-related information regarding a student who is not their own child? Do principals have to send a school-wide notification if a student has an asthma attack?
If the Principal can't send an email (which I agree is a total bottle neck), then the PTA President's notification that there is no threat to other students should be enough. Geez. How this made news is ridiculous.

The problem is social media and cell phones.

The school's communication policy and structure was built before both of those things. The image of the girls passed out was circulating all over social media and the school.

The school needs to respond in real-time to prevent the rumor mill from swirling.

A response that says: "We're aware that images of two students passed out in the bathroom are circulating, however, the rumors about it being due to a drug or fentanyl overdose are not true. The students in question are being cared for by medical staff and will be dealt with privately and with their parents and MCPS disciplinary measures."

Something like that. You have to cut through the chatter as the authority. Sitting on the sidelines silently allows the worst of the worst assumptions to dominate the conversation. This is 2023, not 2003.

THIS exactly. Rumors will still fly, but this eliminates the falsehoods while protecting their privacy.

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This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

MCPS should have some kind of response protocol for unresponsive parents. If a child has disciplinary issues and parents fail to engage with teachers or admin, the kid should be moved to an alternative school. I think that's what this place is for?

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/blairewing/

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Anonymous wrote:This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

that behavior should not be tolerated, for the sake of the teachers and other students who actually want to learn. i don't understand how this student is allowed to continue to behave this way.

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Police need to be back in the schools and there needs to be more discipline and more suspensions and expulsions.

As far as the kids in the BCC bathrooms, the sickening nature of that is the kids who took pics and sent them around school all day and the parents biTTching they didn't know enough right away and need to know more. No one cares about the student's and their privacy. Humanity is repulsive anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

MCPS should have some kind of response protocol for unresponsive parents. If a child has disciplinary issues and parents fail to engage with teachers or admin, the kid should be moved to an alternative school. I think that's what this place is for?

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/blairewing/

The kid is just not allowed to come into school until the parents has a meeting either in person or on the phone. That's it.

We had an issue of a boy harassing my daughter. The principal's response? We asked the parents to come in for a meeting and they declined. They have that right. It's unreal

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Anonymous wrote:This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

that behavior should not be tolerated, for the sake of the teachers and other students who actually want to learn. i don't understand how this student is allowed to continue to behave this way.

Teachers and admin can't physically stop a student from engaging in this behavior. The only solution is to not allow them back in the room but then they're denied access to education. Putting them in a special placement takes almost an entire school year of data collection, meetings, testing, etc. Even then, it's no guarantee. Until then, students and staff are essentially held hostage by these students.

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools are unhealthy for normal people.

Public schools are one of the greatest inventions in history and people like you make me sick

Not PP but — public schools are amazing in theory. In practice, in 2023 in the USA, they are horrible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools are unhealthy for normal people.

Public schools are one of the greatest inventions in history and people like you make me sick

Not the way MCPS runs them.

I attended public school eons ago and it is way different than what my kids are experiencing now, sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

So move just move. Leave MCPS move to Alabama, MO, Mississippi, Arkansaw is a great place with Sarah Sanders grooming kids, or how about South Dakota, or Oklahoma, or Floridumb..

Seriously move.

[Anonymous]

we need charter schools like they have in NYC. taxpayers should not pay for dismally managed schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

So move just move. Leave MCPS move to Alabama, MO, Mississippi, Arkansaw is a great place with Sarah Sanders grooming kids, or how about South Dakota, or Oklahoma, or Floridumb..

Seriously move.

I agree move, we did, it's lovely. The children behave, the teachers are happy and oh, to the amazement of all, the children are actually learning and being educated. MCPS decline was not swift, but it was inevitable given the direction of politics in the region. Couldn't be happier with our family decision. I agree, move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is the third day in a row one of my third graders (gen. ed) has climbed on top of my small group table and thrown markers, crayons, Post-Its, etc. at the other students in my class. Each time admin comes up the child continues with the show before eventually leaving when they're tired of the performance. I've called home, sent emails, etc. No response from parents to me or admin. Once downstairs, they sit in the administrator's office and draw.
I work in an upper MoCo elementary school and never saw things like this five years ago. We can't continue in this direction.

that behavior should not be tolerated, for the sake of the teachers and other students who actually want to learn. i don't understand how this student is allowed to continue to behave this way.

Teachers and admin can't physically stop a student from engaging in this behavior. The only solution is to not allow them back in the room but then they're denied access to education. Putting them in a special placement takes almost an entire school year of data collection, meetings, testing, etc. Even then, it's no guarantee. Until then, students and staff are essentially held hostage by these students.

If I were still teaching I'd lock the little monster in a closet. Problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t we just elected 1/3 of the BOE and appointed new superintendent?

Sadly, the BOE seems to rubber stamp MCPS and not hold the system accountable.

Dr. McKnight was a shoe-in since was a deputy superintendent and then basically guaranteed the main gig when she served as acting superintendent.

The unfortunate thing about school board elections is that most people don't pay attention, so some bad candidates get elected. Until things get so bad that it's time to clean house. Now is that time.

Also, it's time make our BOE full-time.

The unfortunate thing about MoCo school board elections is everyone votes for the most liberal Democrats.

Agree that this is a problem. We keep voting for the same people so we get the same nonsense.

Problems like this are much much worse in red parts of the country. I can post dozens of articles about teens overdosing at school in WV if you'd like.

No they're not, lol. But you keep believing in your "bubble" world of MCPS. Too funny.