The state of MCPS is atrocious
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Anonymous
Why can't you mention it if, for example, the behavior issues of other students is affecting their learning? What if student A attacks student B, are you supposed to hide it from student B's parents? |
Anonymous
The students who are in the altercation - their parents are notified. Everyone else it’s a need to know basis for privacy reasons. They are still minors. If it affects the entire student population - or could amount to that - that’s when admin sends emails home to the community. Day in and day out - not appropriate. |
Anonymous
The kids are absolutely addicted. They are no more bored than they ever were. It’s hard to compete with The Internet/Social Media when it’s at their fingertips and their brains have been wired up (since Covid) to need that dopamine hit more and more. Lots of kids smoke weed out/with friends/in school bathrooms whose parents wouldn’t let them smoke at home. There is indeed a different landscape around weed in the last few years. Parents and teachers are just as good (and sometimes bad) as they ever were. Bashing them is so unproductive. I would argue that our schools need to have stiffer rules around the phones, but with all the school shootings (again, another larger cultural factor at play) parents and teens justifiably would say they need them to be safe. So, I’ll add gun violence to my unholy equation here- Covid + screen addiction + weed legalization + gun violence = public school mess. And still. I’d choose it over the alternative. |
Anonymous
| We're new to the school system and don't know about any of that but we 💖 MCPS. |
Anonymous
So, then limit your child's social media and here's an idea, set a good example and get off social media. It's funny that you are complaining online about social media. Think about it. We need security, metal and other detectors, and consequences at school and home for bad behavior. My kids don't have much time for social media or drugs as we have them in lots of activities and spend time as a family and they are teens. Why aren't you doing the same? |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
These are among the dumbest ideas I've seen. Metal detectors won't solve anything and the problem isn't social media. You people need to look in the mirror sometime. |
Anonymous
What do you propose? What everyone is doing now is not working. |
Anonymous
Don't know but the government can't solve these problems nor will turning schools into prisons. |
Anonymous
dp... phone pouches for a start. They are being implemented all over the country. And I don't have a phone addiction, neither does DH. We rarely look at our phones. DH doesn't even have a social media account. I only have FB because the activities my kids are involved in communicate via FB, which I hate. We never allow phones at the dinner table. Still, my kids are addicted to their phones. They walk around everywhere with the phone in their hands.. bathroom, doing chores, ... They text us when they need pickup, but we've told them that unlike them, we don't have the phones glued to our hands, so if they need a pickup, they need to call. We can hear the phone ringing but not the text notification. |
Anonymous
| Oh really. Are teachers rude. Well how would you feel if you were assaulted and harrased by students and admin everyday and when you tried to speak up about it you were silenced at work and made to make the paperwork rosy. |
Anonymous
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I totally get why MCPS doesn’t want to give up on students. But there are a real subset of kids who are violent and disruptive, and they get shuffled from school to school rather than truly addressing the underlying issues. I don’t think many here are aware of some of the deeply disturbed family lives some of these kids are coming from. Social media is THE LAST CONCERN in these situations. But these kids are creating outsized problems.
MCPS thinks it can soften expectations to give kids multiple chances as they attempt to support mental health and teach social skills that aren’t being supported or taught at home. It doesn’t work, and it degrades the educational experience of everyone else. MCPS needs to go back to setting clear behavioral and academic expectations and then enforce them. One, this actually helps a lot of kids who struggle in terms of behavior. Two, there are kids who could behave just fine, but who take advantage of the fact there are few rules and no consequences. Three, it makes the environment healthier for everyone. And four, for those kids with significant behavioral issues, use a collaborative case management approach to address all aspects of the child’s life. If this includes transferring the student to a special school for kids with acute behavioral issues, do it. But have a clear plan in place for reintegrating that child when they meet behavioral expectations. |
Anonymous
Wears closed those types of programs for troubled kids because they didn’t have good test scores. |
Anonymous
You do know you can change text notifications, right? Make it as loud as a phone call? 
Passive aggressive, much? |
Anonymous
I 100% agree, but there is no appetite for this kind of thinking and action with our political climate in MCPS. Unfortunately, social justice warriors have warped things such that anyone who asks for accountability and consequences is seeking to be "punitive" and "racist." We need to bring back Mark Twain and start setting those kids who have these kinds of serious issues aside in facilities where they can receive the kind of intensive and dedicated resources that can rehabilitate them. And if they can't be rehabilitated, then at least they're separated from the masses and not unleashing their trauma and chaos on everyone else. |