School safety - What is MCPS actually doing and considering doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do schools actually make use of the video cameras in hallways? My kid got their locker broken into (as have other kids in their school of late), and despite there being a video camera right above their locker, the school has been silent about actually looking at footage.

Fellow teacher here. Kids are bringing weapons to school, choking other students, having sex on school grounds, etc, and you want admin to sit down and run a 24 hour video tape to see who broke into your childs locker? There are way bigger issues than your childs hoodie. No one is going to sit down and stare at the footage of one camera to figure this out. Let this go.

Who exactly do you think is responsible for allowing so much violence at our schools?

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Weak admins that won’t stand up to central office. Central office hooligans who are extremely removed from all forms of reality think all students can be handled with proper sit down conversations. Ugh. If one more of these yahoos gets another worthless “doctorate” in educational management i think I might start personally suing the accrediting bodies that allowed them to think they know what to do. They all are a waste of space.

This is the opinion of a fed up teacher who feels they wasted prime career time on a company that does not value excellence as they claim. (I came from outside of education have been a “real” manager for what’s that worth).

Outside of education and the nepotism of MCPS? They would be fired so so fast. SO fast. That’s who is causing this- look no further than 45 Gude Dr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do schools actually make use of the video cameras in hallways? My kid got their locker broken into (as have other kids in their school of late), and despite there being a video camera right above their locker, the school has been silent about actually looking at footage.

Fellow teacher here. Kids are bringing weapons to school, choking other students, having sex on school grounds, etc, and you want admin to sit down and run a 24 hour video tape to see who broke into your childs locker? There are way bigger issues than your childs hoodie. No one is going to sit down and stare at the footage of one camera to figure this out. Let this go.

Who exactly do you think is responsible for allowing so much violence at our schools?

m


Weak admins that won’t stand up to central office. Central office hooligans who are extremely removed from all forms of reality think all students can be handled with proper sit down conversations. Ugh. If one more of these yahoos gets another worthless “doctorate” in educational management i think I might start personally suing the accrediting bodies that allowed them to think they know what to do. They all are a waste of space.

This is the opinion of a fed up teacher who feels they wasted prime career time on a company that does not value excellence as they claim. (I came from outside of education have been a “real” manager for what’s that worth).

Outside of education and the nepotism of MCPS? They would be fired so so fast. SO fast. That’s who is causing this- look no further than 45 Gude Dr.

Well said.

[Anonymous]

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Yeah, I do concede that MCPS was not transparent and probably should have been, but the Ewing kids need to go somewhere and that is an MCPS holding school, so not much grounds for the FV community to push back here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Many neighborhoods don’t have sidewalks. Ours is a lesser neighborhood and we have very few. Talk to the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Yeah, I do concede that MCPS was not transparent and probably should have been, but the Ewing kids need to go somewhere and that is an MCPS holding school, so not much grounds for the FV community to push back here.

Given the state of their school where else do they go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

I imagine the existing Blair Ewing admin and staff would go with the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

I imagine the existing Blair Ewing admin and staff would go with the kids.

What kind of consequences are the teachers allowed to give violent offenders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

I imagine the existing Blair Ewing admin and staff would go with the kids.

What kind of consequences are the teachers allowed to give violent offenders?

Ask Chief of Schools Peter Moran. His shop is the one revising the Code of Conduct as we speak: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/05/12/mcps-student-code-of-conduct-revisions/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do schools actually make use of the video cameras in hallways? My kid got their locker broken into (as have other kids in their school of late), and despite there being a video camera right above their locker, the school has been silent about actually looking at footage.

Fellow teacher here. Kids are bringing weapons to school, choking other students, having sex on school grounds, etc, and you want admin to sit down and run a 24 hour video tape to see who broke into your childs locker? There are way bigger issues than your childs hoodie. No one is going to sit down and stare at the footage of one camera to figure this out. Let this go.

Who exactly do you think is responsible for allowing so much violence at our schools?

I don't know what school you're teaching at, but my kid's middle school has checked security footage when there have been fights and stories were not consistent about what occurred, and when there have been thefts. I don't know what person thinks that the world is so black and white that everyone who works for MCPS is giving students a free pass to run wild while they do nothing, but that's not what I see in my kid's school. Teachers and administrators are doing the best they can with the resources provided and want to keep kids safe.

[Anonymous]

What consequences are violent kids getting, 14:54? Zero. What resources are you lacking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

I imagine the existing Blair Ewing admin and staff would go with the kids.

What kind of consequences are the teachers allowed to give violent offenders?

Ask Chief of Schools Peter Moran. His shop is the one revising the Code of Conduct as we speak: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2025/05/12/mcps-student-code-of-conduct-revisions/

Bottom line:
We need more staff trained in “restorative justice”. Hence the demand for yet more money. Anyone surprised?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Yeah, I do concede that MCPS was not transparent and probably should have been, but the Ewing kids need to go somewhere and that is an MCPS holding school, so not much grounds for the FV community to push back here.

Except there was no BOE vote on this proposal and there is no money to convert an elementary school into a Level 2 educational facility for middle and high school students. Seth Adams is long gone. The days of him making decisions without BOE authority should have ended when he left. It is still a public school system and the public is still part of the process on school use decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/montgomery-county-residents-concerned-alternative-education-program-location-neighborhood/65-0df11dc4-9ea8-46ad-be19-daeba7d9a8ed

NIMBY folks getting in the way of MCPS trying to separate out the kids that need an alternative program. Can’t have your cake and eat it too FV folks. You already mostly send your kids to private schools and you have no sidewalks in your neighborhood to discourage outsiders driving or walking around.

Thank you for this news clip. It’s pertinent to the school safety issue. It looks like this previously unused county property will now be used for the violent kids.
Any idea what kind of staff they’ll have in order to manage these kids? Will consequences be allowed?

I imagine the existing Blair Ewing admin and staff would go with the kids.

Imagine whatever you want. Even MCPS Comms Dir had no idea this was happening two weeks ago.