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Montgomery County MD Schools- A Horrific Nightmare
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Anonymous
Sounds like MoCo is not for you. Maybe head over to FL. I think that might suit you better. |
Anonymous
And the rampant drug use is a consequence of Maryland/Montgomery County completely legalizing marijuana use, opening many new dispensaries, and even passing a law allowing parents to use marijuana in front of their minor children. If the adults seem to be OK with and even willing to promote drug use, it's hard to say to kids not to do it themselves. The casual drug use in schools was a policy choice of elected leadership. Same with a culture of children transitioning genders- this is an initiative that is being imposed on parents by elected leaders without any chance for them to opt out other than moving away or yanking their elementary school children out of school. |
Anonymous
I grew up here. My family lives here. My younger sister graduated from MCPS not too long ago. It's not a punchline or political choice; it's where I was born and raised. |
Anonymous
If you're posting in good faith, please understand that's not the case. The problems of assault are very real and very present, and your conflating various things is NOT helping bringing them to the fore. We WANT people to put pressure on MCPS to have better rules regarding the aftermath of assault and battery cases (whether sexual or not). Their policy is to not call police immediately, but investigate in-house themselves, and they really should change that, because they end up protecting the perpetrators, not the victims. This is really serious, OP. Do not mix everything up, because you're not helping. |
Anonymous
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The elected school board and administrators are working against the kids and parents. Time to wake up, people.
You voted for this. |
Anonymous
These issues are all serious and of course I hope there is change and better leadership. In my mind, putting it all together is necessary for the message to be effective, but I understand if individuals or groups want to tackle things separately. |
Anonymous
This is what the Parent Coalition does. They like to point fingers, they don't like to help solve problems. And this is why nobody can stand them |
Anonymous
I was raised in CA; went to school there. My parents still live there. I moved out of there in part because of the schools. I'm not saying all those issues you mentioned are fine. But, you seem really obsessive and very upset about it. I do think MCPS/BOE need to be held accountable and do better, but no system is perfect. Like I said, I think FL would fit you better. |
Anonymous
My kid's sex ed in fifth grade sure wasn't explicit. Way less than my own in elementary school. And for obvious safety reasons, teachers shouldn't have to tell parents a child is using a different pronoun or holding hands with a kid of the same sex. Depending on the child's home situation, doing so could endanger them. |
Anonymous
It’s another right winger also pretending to care about rape and we all know they don’t. Unless it was done by a brown man, in which case it’s the fault of the Democrats and then rape is bad. Otherwise shut up, thin blue line, she was asking for it. |
Anonymous
Under MCPS's policy, the child can be fully transitioned to other students and staff and the parents would literally be the last people in the student's life to know- even if the child is as young as 6 years old. The janitors would know before the parents. Even the crazy guidelines on how to "accept" your trans child say that for younger children, more parental support may be needed. The new policy is more extreme than even the materials on the MCPS website. And parents have a constitutional right to direct their children's upbringing. |
Anonymous
If you are “directing” your child’s upbringing but they don’t feel like they can tell you who they really are, please deal with your own issues. Putting “accept” in quotes is a tell. |
Anonymous
| Focus on being the kind of parent whose kids feels safe disclosing that they’re questioning their gender or sexual identity and you’ll never have to worry that MCPS is hiding information from you. |
Anonymous
| What kind of parent would not know their 6 year old is transitioning? One who never goes to a class party or field trip, never attends after school events, never goes to the bus stop, never hosts play dates and never talks to the parents or their kid’s friends, and never really talks to their own child, I guess. If such a parent exists, I wouldn’t tell them anything about their poor kid either. This is just such a stupid non issue. |
Anonymous
| OP, I have three kids who have been in 5 different McPS schools. They certainly aren’t perfect but they are very very far from the hellscape you describe. As is often the case, information on the internet tends to magnify controversy. That’s how a site gets clicks which is how they generate revenue. Real life is much more nuanced than the world on the internet. |