Any high school teachers here? How is violent victimization tracked?

[Anonymous]

My kid told me there was a huge fight at his school last week, about 15 kids, and that school officials broke it up. They saw at least one security guard get hit.

Police were not called so there is no record on their side. Do schools keep track of kids and staff who are assaulted? Even if there is no police report?

They have tons of data on kids who are disciplined for assault. But no public records (at least I can’t find them) of kids who are assaulted. How many, how serious, whether they feel restorative justice makes them safer, etc.

I just had this sinking feeling this morning that we really have no idea how many fights are going on.

This is prompted by the horrible fight video from texas. This type of fighting and video recording goes on in my kid’s school. Kids post it all the time on social media. I haven’t seen anything anywhere as bad as what happened in texas. But if we don’t know about it, other than from our kids’ instagram, how do we make sure schools are working to prevent it? And if huge fights happen and police aren’t called, who’s breaking these things up?

[Anonymous]

Specific discipline records are going to be private data. You might get general reports of "a fight" but not specifics.

[Anonymous]

They used to publish the Safety and Security at a glance reports, which would tally the incidents per school, and whether police were called. The last ones posted are from 2019-20.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/safetyglance/index.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They used to publish the Safety and Security at a glance reports, which would tally the incidents per school, and whether police were called. The last ones posted are from 2019-20.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/safetyglance/index.aspx

wow...never know this existed... and so many students got suspended...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They used to publish the Safety and Security at a glance reports, which would tally the incidents per school, and whether police were called. The last ones posted are from 2019-20.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/safetyglance/index.aspx

wow...never know this existed... and so many students got suspended...

oh but there are those who claim that kids don't suffer any consequences in MCPS. Also, less than 2% total suspension rate. I don't know if that amounts to"so many".

I am not a fan of Restorative Justice the way MCPS does it, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They used to publish the Safety and Security at a glance reports, which would tally the incidents per school, and whether police were called. The last ones posted are from 2019-20.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/safetyglance/index.aspx

OP here. Yes, I have seen these. They are perpetrator based and not victim based.