Second individual identified from the bomb threats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents need to monitor their kids and be parents. Period. Get off your devices and talk to your kids. Rather than waiting for the school system to explain the consequences, guess what- YOU can and you’ll also remind them that when this is on their record, they can kiss their college acceptance letter goodbye and enjoy working a minimum wage job forever. Enough is enough and STEP UP

Whom are you addressing?

Plus, it's not true about the consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents need to monitor their kids and be parents. Period. Get off your devices and talk to your kids. Rather than waiting for the school system to explain the consequences, guess what- YOU can and you’ll also remind them that when this is on their record, they can kiss their college acceptance letter goodbye and enjoy working a minimum wage job forever. Enough is enough and STEP UP

Then perhaps you can enlighten us as to what consequences MCPS is prepared to dole out?

Because the first kid, who is 12, is not legally eligible for criminal pursuit.

And need I remind you, Moron of the First Water, that we're worried OTHER kids will disrupt our children's learning and cause schools to evacuate or shelter in place.

So we would like schools to clarify consequences for kids of all ages.

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah a psycho who calls in a bomb threat is going to be deterred by a generalized threat of consequences.

Even adult criminals aren't deterred by punishment. They assume they won't get caught at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In part because the legal consequences are not spelled out to them clearly. At no point did MCPS ever broadcast what they could do for punishment. Every Principal needs to say it out loud during morning announcements. The MCPS email I received today did not spell it out either - it needs to, so parents can remind their kids.
And for the kids old enough (13 and up), MCPS needs to remind them of legal consequences. The police chief needs to say it out loud on the news so parents repeat it to their kids.

Vagueness is the enduring problem with MCPS. For years, my kids have had "wellness" and "mental health" assemblies and lectures, which they tell me are a complete waste of time, because nothing specific is ever said, to help themselves or others. It's so vague as to be entirely useless. Same for violent threats. Kids are practical people - if they don't know what the punishment is, more will engage in the behavior.

Vagueness is the enduring problem in neatly all public schools. Not so in the Catholic schools my kids have attended. Consequences are never a mystery. Consequences follow quickly after breaking the rules. There’s no worry about inequity in consequences. You do the crime, you chose the time.

Unless you are a priest who abuses kids of course