B-CC Student Newspaper Blows the Lid Off of Drug Use and Distribution in MCPS High Schools

[Anonymous]

Read this feature first, which details everything about how drugs are sold and distributed from Telegram and then in school buildings: https://bcctattler.org/2042/showcase/concerning-spike-in-moco-teen-overdoses-trappers-increasingly-cut-fentanyl-into-their-products/

Then check out the news about some recent arrest MoCo PD has made to catch some of these student-dealers: https://bcctattler.org/2065/news/trappergate-major-drug-bust-begins-with-b-cc-dealer/

These student journalists are doing better work than the professionals on this subject!

[Anonymous]

Good for them! Glad to see them doing this.

[Anonymous]

Where are the parents? Clearly they are ok with their kids using.

[Anonymous]

And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the parents? Clearly they are ok with their kids using.

Where is MCPS leadership? Clearly they're asleep at the wheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

Parents have fake outrage or they’d do something about their kids drug use. What can mcps do? Let’s be real. They will not hire more security, give detentions and suspend kids so they are powerless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the parents? Clearly they are ok with their kids using.

Where is MCPS leadership? Clearly they're asleep at the wheel.

What can leadership do without parent support. It goes both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

Parents have fake outrage or they’d do something about their kids drug use. What can mcps do? Let’s be real. They will not hire more security, give detentions and suspend kids so they are powerless.

Why won't they do those things? That's precisely what concerned parents want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the parents? Clearly they are ok with their kids using.

Where is MCPS leadership? Clearly they're asleep at the wheel.

What can leadership do without parent support. It goes both ways.

Can you vape marijuana in your work bathroom? What would your work do? MCPS has to take responsibility for things that happen on MCPS property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are the parents? Clearly they are ok with their kids using.

Where is MCPS leadership? Clearly they're asleep at the wheel.

What can leadership do without parent support. It goes both ways.

I don't think B-CC lacks for parental support. They have an active PTSA and they lobbied for the security meeting at MCPS where they leadership dodged questions and paid lip service. So there are plenty of concerned and engaged parents. Now that's not true at all high schools, but if MCPS is playing dumb, blind and silent with a high school full of very present and engaged parents, you can only imagine what's going on elsewhere where fewer parents are engaged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

Parents have fake outrage or they’d do something about their kids drug use. What can mcps do? Let’s be real. They will not hire more security, give detentions and suspend kids so they are powerless.

Why won't they do those things? That's precisely what concerned parents want.

I'm a concerned parent, and it's not what I want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

Parents have fake outrage or they’d do something about their kids drug use. What can mcps do? Let’s be real. They will not hire more security, give detentions and suspend kids so they are powerless.

Why won't they do those things? That's precisely what concerned parents want.

I'm a concerned parent, and it's not what I want.

What do you want instead? You can put forth your ideas and people debate and if enough people agree with and back your suggestion, that can maybe turn into policy.

This is how democracy works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve-got-here-is-failure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

I agree!! And judging by that most recent 'town hall', the administration is both bumbling and self-satisfied with their evasive tactics. Granted, it was not really positioned as a town hall, though the taller implies it was--it was a 'safety meeting' or something. But that alone says that the people on stage were not willing to have a town hall-type conversation again. Go student journalists!

[Anonymous]

BCC students enter bathrooms to see large groups of girls vaping?

My son is a senior at WJ, and has never entered a bathroom and seen someone vaping or smelled weed. Is it because boys don't use bathrooms for this? Is just particular bathrooms? I'm sure WJ has a drug problem too...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BCC students enter bathrooms to see large groups of girls vaping?

My son is a senior at WJ, and has never entered a bathroom and seen someone vaping or smelled weed. Is it because boys don't use bathrooms for this? Is just particular bathrooms? I'm sure WJ has a drug problem too...

This problem is not unique to B-CC. It's at most MCPS high schools and in both boys and girls' bathrooms.

I don't know the down and dirty at WJ, but I not assume the school is exempt from this issue.