Schools no longer protected from immigration enforcement. Prepare your kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

Reducing cell phone use in schools and this distraction and disruption at school does benefit the entire school community. That in and of itself is not putting kids at risk of ICE raids or missing school. Parent decisions are doing the later. Why would we stop rollout of a program intended to benefit EDUCATION because we are worried some might not send their kids to school, the place of education. Education is the primary purpose of the school and school district.

Because even non-immigrant parents worry about the physical and emotional safety of their children in the event of something as chaotic as armed men dragging classmates out of their school building. If you wouldn’t want to reach your child or your child wouldn’t want to reach you, your family is dysfunctional.

Hyperventilate much?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

Reducing cell phone use in schools and this distraction and disruption at school does benefit the entire school community. That in and of itself is not putting kids at risk of ICE raids or missing school. Parent decisions are doing the later. Why would we stop rollout of a program intended to benefit EDUCATION because we are worried some might not send their kids to school, the place of education. Education is the primary purpose of the school and school district.

Yep, it sucks that they're stopping the rollout, but of course it's the right call, it would be terrible to throw certain groups of students under the bus and say it's fine for some kids to get zero education so we can prioritize other kids' education being moderately better?

This is just another example of how policies targeted at certain people in our society tend to have the side effects of making life crappier for everyone. Get used to it, there's going to be a lot of these.

[Anonymous]

Sounds a little extreme. I hope parents and teachers aren't scaring children unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

Reducing cell phone use in schools and this distraction and disruption at school does benefit the entire school community. That in and of itself is not putting kids at risk of ICE raids or missing school. Parent decisions are doing the later. Why would we stop rollout of a program intended to benefit EDUCATION because we are worried some might not send their kids to school, the place of education. Education is the primary purpose of the school and school district.

Here is an idea. Control your own child's cell phone use. Not the schools responsibility to parent your kids.

[Anonymous]

Can you post more info/documentation about this? Our school could be very involved but I haven’t heard this and would like to see what you are seeing. There is a real harm of posting unverified claims and making so many people anxious without more info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you post more info/documentation about this? Our school could be very involved but I haven’t heard this and would like to see what you are seeing. There is a real harm of posting unverified claims and making so many people anxious without more info.

Especially now when misinformation and scaring people is the actual point of rumors.

[Anonymous]

I have little doubt immigration enforcement may ramp up but I doubt they are starting in suburban elementary schools. You’re hysterical and fear mongering. It doesn’t even make sense as so many of the kids are citizens compared to their illegal parents it just wouldn’t be an efficient use of manpower and impossible to do. Get out of your own head

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can you post more info/documentation about this? Our school could be very involved but I haven’t heard this and would like to see what you are seeing. There is a real harm of posting unverified claims and making so many people anxious without more info.

Especially now when misinformation and scaring people is the actual point of rumors.

+100

[Anonymous]

There are no ice raids, if a family is found to be illegal they may escort the parents to pick up the child for deportation but most likely it would happen at home however schools (as they should have been all along) should report illegal immigrants to ICE that's all that is happening. However if for some reason the child goes to school and refuses to leave then there might be an ICE raid to retrieve them.

Its the same thing if a student committed a crime and is at school they should be removed from the general population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

Reducing cell phone use in schools and this distraction and disruption at school does benefit the entire school community. That in and of itself is not putting kids at risk of ICE raids or missing school. Parent decisions are doing the later. Why would we stop rollout of a program intended to benefit EDUCATION because we are worried some might not send their kids to school, the place of education. Education is the primary purpose of the school and school district.

Here is an idea. Control your own child's cell phone use. Not the schools responsibility to parent your kids.

Here’s an idea, if all parents were doing this there would be no need for a cell phone restriction policy and enforcement. But alas fols aren’t and so once again schools are having to do what parents won’t.

Here’s another idea, you and whomever else are welcome to stay out of school (although you’ll be creating headache for the school system in other ways). But, let’s not make or unmake policy meant to better the actual delivery and uptake of information because you are choosing not to participate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have little doubt immigration enforcement may ramp up but I doubt they are starting in suburban elementary schools. You’re hysterical and fear mongering. It doesn’t even make sense as so many of the kids are citizens compared to their illegal parents it just wouldn’t be an efficient use of manpower and impossible to do. Get out of your own head

Exactly. We're immigrants, but we're also highly educated and rational. ICE is not raiding Maryland schools.

Dear Lord. Some of you are massively stupid.

[Anonymous]

The children will stop coming to school. It’s sad.

I hope I never see the day ICE is raiding a school but we can’t be so ignorant as to not learn from history. In Nazi Germany nobody thought things would get as bad as they did. People couldn’t wrap their heads around what was happening until it was too late. Anything is possible here.

Do you know the poem below? Just swap out communists for immigrants, socialists for LGBTQ, etc. Nobody will be unaffected.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

[Anonymous]

Moderator should either lock this thread or ask OP et al to post memo received by staff and teachers, or a news link or other announcements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds a little extreme. I hope parents and teachers aren't scaring children unnecessarily.

Nah, that's the US Government's job apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

But what if your kids crash into a river and can’t get their seatbelt undone and drown? That’s what you’re talking about. Phones are damaging for kids, especially at school. You’re talking about wanting a phone in an extremely unlikely event. The far more likely case is that not having phones at schools helps all the kids.