What would be the process to get metal detectors in MCPS schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of security theater out there, with SROs and metal detectors on the list. It makes some parents happy without doing much.

SRO's, CRO's and security guards do far more than you realize. The do nothing approach didn't work. Now its time for action.

I’ve often wondered if the anti-SRO crowd has actually met an SRO. I’ve worked with four different SROs during my career as a teacher. They got to know the students, showed up at events, cheered on our teams, and served as vital members of the school community. I watched one talk to a my student about a bad decision, and I was in awe of her compassion and ability to reason with the boy. He was on the verge of making a bad choice, and he didn’t. I watched another SRO calmly take a butcher knife from a student, deescalating one of the scariest moments of my career.

But the anti-SRO types scream about “narcing” and “arresting,” despite the fact arrest statistics for MCPS are extremely low.

I wonder if their hate for SROs simply stems from hate for police in general. In Montgomery County, that’s pretty likely. We certainly love to hate our police here.

They have no idea as those situations aren't talked about as it doesn't meet their agenda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We Don't need SROs or metal detectors. What we do need are common sense gun laws.

This is basically as useful as "thoughts and prayers."

Our elected officials are disinclined to do anything about gun control. It sucks, but it's true. So simply saying "gun control, gun control, gun control" three times in the mirror is basically as effective as praying to your Space Daddy to keep the kids safe.

In the absence of the protective hand of Space Daddy, and in the absence of federal gun legislation, what concrete actions will be useful in keeping kids safe in school?

MCPS has no control over gun laws nor can they make them. And, if they can make them, they'd need SRO's, CRO's, security guards and metal and other detectors to prevent them from coming in the school. So, arguing gun control at the MCPS level is silly.

[Anonymous]

Why are parents having to have the conversation and trying to start/resume discussion about getting metal detectors in schools? Where are the people who were HIRED to do that job with OUR hard earned TAXPAYER $$$. Step up, MCPS, step the F up and DO SOMETHING!

[Anonymous]

4 fcking LOCKDOWNS at BCC in 4 years
Countless fking more at other HS

[Anonymous]

Nothing to answer OPs question. Because any $ was spent on XYZ

[Anonymous]

And look, there's college to look forward to:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1259747.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And look, there's college to look forward to:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1259747.page

The difference at least at college is that there's actually a functional department of public safety and transparent communications, in real time. That's not what we get in MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Why is the decision maker Raskin? This is Taylor and the BOE and they'd rather fund their pet projects and give money away than make safety and academics a priority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Why is the decision maker Raskin? This is Taylor and the BOE and they'd rather fund their pet projects and give money away than make safety and academics a priority.

Could it be because one is a leader and the others are wanna be leaders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Why is the decision maker Raskin? This is Taylor and the BOE and they'd rather fund their pet projects and give money away than make safety and academics a priority.

Could it be because one is a leader and the others are wanna be leaders?

Raskin has no power to install metal detectors in MCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Why is the decision maker Raskin? This is Taylor and the BOE and they'd rather fund their pet projects and give money away than make safety and academics a priority.

Could it be because one is a leader and the others are wanna be leaders?

Raskin has no power to install metal detectors in MCPS schools.

Therefore...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Is that this Marc Minsker?
https://patch.com/maryland/bethesda-chevychase/principal-bethesda-charged-dui-after-schools-prom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Petition

https://www.change.org/p/make-mcps-campuses-safer-with-metal-detectors-in-middle-high-schools

Why is the decision maker Raskin? This is Taylor and the BOE and they'd rather fund their pet projects and give money away than make safety and academics a priority.

Could it be because one is a leader and the others are wanna be leaders?

Raskin has no power to install metal detectors in MCPS schools.

Therefore...?

The petition weirdly labels him the Decision Maker.

[Anonymous]

Alexandria City High School has metal detectors, and although there have been fights in the school there hasn’t been one involving guns.