Real Talk - are MCPS schools safe anymore?

[Anonymous]

Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

[Anonymous]

Hun, you have much to read here:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1183013.page
You have to do what works for you.

[Anonymous]

According the MCPS apologist, the issues are overblown. It's fine; everything's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

Um, when was it ever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

Um, when was it ever?

OP here: I went to MoCo schools growing up many years ago. Of courses fights, drug usage, etc. were there, but I don’t recall a single shelter in place from a bomb threat or risk of mass shooting. There was a sniper once targeting kids outside of schools; that was scary, but not at this level potential deaths in one moment. How do parents keep their kids safe in school here nowadays?

[Anonymous]

Bomb threats are unsettling of course, but there's little that can be done to prevent them. And they tend to spark copycats.

[Anonymous]

Bomb threats are disruptive but not dangerous. And we had them in my rust belt small town in the 1990s as well, so I think some of it just hearing about things more. You didn’t use to hear about things impacting neighborhood high schools before the internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

Um, when was it ever?

OP here: I went to MoCo schools growing up many years ago. Of courses fights, drug usage, etc. were there, but I don’t recall a single shelter in place from a bomb threat or risk of mass shooting. There was a sniper once targeting kids outside of schools; that was scary, but not at this level potential deaths in one moment. How do parents keep their kids safe in school here nowadays?

I remember bomb threats and stuff but nothing like now. Safe is relative.

[Anonymous]

The worst place to ask this question is this forum. I would never make serious decisions based on what I read here.

[Anonymous]

OP, why don't you move on over to the private school forum instead.

[Anonymous]

The W cluster schools are still fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, why don't you move on over to the private school forum instead.

Exactly, keep our class sizes small here in the largest school district in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

The threats happen as parents aren’t parenting their kids nor does mcps give consequences so this is just a fun game for some kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The W cluster schools are still fine.

Yep, Wootton, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parent of pre-K child in Bethesda, and it feels like every day there is news about MoCo schools experiencing potential bomb threats, mass shootings, etc. Why does this keep happening? What measures are there to reduce incidence of these threats? Do current parents feel MCPS schools are actually safe anymore? What a distraction from actual learning, the main point of going to school…

Um, when was it ever?

When I had children in the system in the 80's and 90's. Yes, it was safe.