How common are lockdowns at BCC, exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does BCC have so many lockdowns despite being in a high SES area?

Carjackings, fights at football games, kids passing out in the bathrooms...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Some principals and directors are more adept at burying the news. Also, Wheaton has a defunct PTSA. B-CC, on the other hand, has a well-organized, funded and active PTSA that makes noise and demands responsiveness from MCPS.

The difference in responses to the two schools is a combination of different levels of socioeconomics and parental engagement.

MCPS loves schools with defunct or highly compliant PTAs because they can get away with murder quietly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

It's not surprising that this board is read by more BCC parents than Wheaton parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Wrong. They were 2 threads about those incidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Wrong. They were 2 threads about those incidents.

Yes, there were minimally engaged threads on DCUM.

Meanwhile, B-CC had a public safety town hall convened by Councilmember Friedson and attended by 100 parents/community members and MCPS Chief of Schools Peter Moran and Chief Safety Officer Marcus Jones.

The responses from the system and community were miles apart. And it's due to MCPS knowing that Wheaton and most other D-CC schools don't have the engaged and active parent communities that will demand accountability from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go private if you can. BCC is a shit show.

I might use the phrase dumpster fire, but: massive grade inflation, unenthused and sometimes unqualified teachers, at least one lockdown per year for the 4 years my senior was there, inadequate principal responses to not just security events but antisemitic incidents (including a BCC teacher!) would give me pause if I had a younger child. And we both value the public school/heterogenous environment at BCC and could afford private if we needed to. Would not send a child to BCC if I had other options at this point. Had an older kid who graduated some years ago & their experience was significantly better (quality of instruction) -- pandemic did not do good things for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Wrong. They were 2 threads about those incidents.

Yes, there were minimally engaged threads on DCUM.

Meanwhile, B-CC had a public safety town hall convened by Councilmember Friedson and attended by 100 parents/community members and MCPS Chief of Schools Peter Moran and Chief Safety Officer Marcus Jones.

The responses from the system and community were miles apart. And it's due to MCPS knowing that Wheaton and most other D-CC schools don't have the engaged and active parent communities that will demand accountability from them.

Friedson is expected to run for county executive. It was strategic campaign move for him to convene the town hall. Wheaton's council member Natalie Fani-Gonzalez could have hosted something similar, but she's not running for CE, so less of a need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Wrong. They were 2 threads about those incidents.

Yes, there were minimally engaged threads on DCUM.

Meanwhile, B-CC had a public safety town hall convened by Councilmember Friedson and attended by 100 parents/community members and MCPS Chief of Schools Peter Moran and Chief Safety Officer Marcus Jones.

The responses from the system and community were miles apart. And it's due to MCPS knowing that Wheaton and most other D-CC schools don't have the engaged and active parent communities that will demand accountability from them.

Friedson is expected to run for county executive. It was strategic campaign move for him to convene the town hall. Wheaton's council member Natalie Fani-Gonzalez could have hosted something similar, but she's not running for CE, so less of a need.

To be fair, she did convene a Public Safety Town Hall, where many D-CC parents and students showed up and discussed school safety issues and concerns:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The disparity between B-CC and others is wild.

Wheaton has had 2 loaded guns on campus this year, and you barely heard anything about it. B-CC has a lockdown and this board starts getting active.

Wrong. They were 2 threads about those incidents.

Yes, there were minimally engaged threads on DCUM.

Meanwhile, B-CC had a public safety town hall convened by Councilmember Friedson and attended by 100 parents/community members and MCPS Chief of Schools Peter Moran and Chief Safety Officer Marcus Jones.

The responses from the system and community were miles apart. And it's due to MCPS knowing that Wheaton and most other D-CC schools don't have the engaged and active parent communities that will demand accountability from them.

Friedson is expected to run for county executive. It was strategic campaign move for him to convene the town hall. Wheaton's council member Natalie Fani-Gonzalez could have hosted something similar, but she's not running for CE, so less of a need.

To be fair, she did convene a Public Safety Town Hall, where many D-CC parents and students showed up and discussed school safety issues and concerns:

OK, it's good that she did that. I stand corrected.

[Anonymous]

As common as any other school. Wecome to AmeriKkka.