Student hospitalized after assault at Clarksburg

[Anonymous]

All this back and forth yet no one posted a link or copied the letter to school community or a news release geez

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this back and forth yet no one posted a link or copied the letter to school community or a news release geez

We’ll take that up with the news outlets that haven’t reported on it.

Also, did Clarksburg send a community letter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

Admin are leadership and blame shifting.
Another example of the MCPS clown show. People shouldn’t blame unsocial admins but leadership is rotten to core.

[Anonymous]

What do you complainers expect MCPS admins to really do in these situations?

Kids fight sometimes - it’s not a problem exclusive to MCPS. All the admins can do is discipline after the matter. These schools are safe in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this back and forth yet no one posted a link or copied the letter to school community or a news release geez

We’ll take that up with the news outlets that haven’t reported on it.

Also, did Clarksburg send a community letter?

How about take it up with Communications as in MCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

Yeap, I was going to write something long but the above is pretty much the issue.

Every school system kind of does it but MCPS always had a reputation of caring about it's numbers. More so in the past under a previous superintendent who loved to brag about the numbers when MCPS was a higher performing school district. Like you'd see them go to great lengths in making sure that their numbers don't change or drop too much.

Numbers are helpful where it helps identify trends or any potential problem areas.

But when people loses sight of things and chooses to only focus on numbers, the quality of things go downhill too.

[Anonymous]

Link?

[Anonymous]

NO one can provide a link to this? Why is this thread still open?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

Many of us cannot get IEP's/504's with documented needs or even the most basic supports from our schools. You are living in a bubble if you think everyone is welcome and has their needs met.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent problem kids need to be expelled and forced to find a private school or get their GED. In general too, MCPS is too soft on everything. Look at the inflated grades, poor student conduct, the clueless legal team/admin who cause and then can’t defend a lawsuit. Needs new leadership ASAP.

+1 I understand why progressives try to keep these troubled violent kids in regular school, but c'mon, you are doing so at the expense of the vast majority of kids, and teachers/admins.

Everyone is owed a public education but not everyone is owed access to school buildings. In this day and age, virtual learning for behavior problems is totally fine. They aren't in the building to learn anyway.

It’s pretty hilarious that you think kids that have behavior serious enough to not be allowed in a school building are going to actually participate in virtual school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent problem kids need to be expelled and forced to find a private school or get their GED. In general too, MCPS is too soft on everything. Look at the inflated grades, poor student conduct, the clueless legal team/admin who cause and then can’t defend a lawsuit. Needs new leadership ASAP.

+1 I understand why progressives try to keep these troubled violent kids in regular school, but c'mon, you are doing so at the expense of the vast majority of kids, and teachers/admins.

Everyone is owed a public education but not everyone is owed access to school buildings. In this day and age, virtual learning for behavior problems is totally fine. They aren't in the building to learn anyway.

You do realize MCPS shut down the virtual school but that virtual school ran like an in person school with regular live classes and that wouldn't be appropiate either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

This is an off the rails crazy take. If a student is dangerous but they happen to be a girl, low income, minority etc… we should just turn a blind eye?

It should be treated as a privilege in the sense that if someone cant keep their hands to themselves and are a safety issue for other kids/employees then they simply no longer have the privilege. MCPS really needs to be better about actually doing something about violent kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

This is an off the rails crazy take. If a student is dangerous but they happen to be a girl, low income, minority etc… we should just turn a blind eye?

It should be treated as a privilege in the sense that if someone cant keep their hands to themselves and are a safety issue for other kids/employees then they simply no longer have the privilege. MCPS really needs to be better about actually doing something about violent kids.

That PP lost the plot. It’s shouldn’t be outlandish to say that students who assault and put their peers into a hospital should be required to find alternative schooling. The root of the problem is MCPS cares more about numbers and optics than outcomes.