Safety in schools
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Anonymous
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The fear mongering is insane.
MCPS has problems, we all know this, but it is not as bad as people are projecting. However, the Right Wing gas lighters are on a roll and will continue for quite a while. Be vigilant against their lies. Do your own research. Maryland case search is fascinating, same with court reporter you can download any legal case against the school system. Read them they are enlightening to say the least. We are being attacked by the Religious Right they are coming for our schools. They have planned this for a very long time and are well organized. Their buzz words are so you think they have your best interest at heart they do not. For example, Moms4Liberty look at their founders, look at their scandal in Florida and other places, look at the hypocrisy coming from them. They are nothing but a hateful organization that will dumb down our schools get us to vouchers and bring Christian Nationalism into the curriculum. |
Anonymous
Nothing ever happens until it happens to you. Students complain of inadequate supervision. Supervisors say they are rent seeing anything. That's what students are complaining about! |
Anonymous
If wanting a school without drugs and weapons and violence makes me a RWNJ, I'm a RWNJ. |
Anonymous
That was a huge waste of money. Do we really need an audit and waste more money to know that vaping is out of control; bathrooms are locked; violence is up? Are the students and teachers lying? |
Anonymous
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Denying 15 overdoses at schools in one year, is gaslighting.
https://wtop.com/health-fitness/2023/05/md-school-systems-approach-to-battling-fentanyl-epidemic-facing-teens/ |
Anonymous
How can administrators fix a problem if all they have is a pile of rumors? They have to actually go find what is happening where, and find out if any mitigation attempts are changing what's happening. This is the basic job responsibility of organizational administration. |
Anonymous
Where are you that you don't see any issues? MCPS head in the sand is the big issue here. You are nothing but an MCPS apologist. I really don't care about Moms4liberty. I don't care about trans bathroom rules; lgbtq books.. those things don't bother me. What bothers me is the bathrooms being locked such that kids are having a hard time finding a bathroom to use. My kid runs home from the bus stop, and I rushes to the bathroom when they get home. I really want you and the rest of the MCPS admin to work in a building where the majority of bathrooms are locked, and you and 1000+ other adults have to try to find a bathroom to use by going onto your phone with bad wifi, and opening up a spreadsheet to find an open bathroom. Then tell me you think there is no problem. |
Anonymous
They are welcome to go to RM unannounced and walk the halls and check the bathrooms. They don't need to pay an expensive consultant to see that the bathrooms are locked. Are they too busy sitting in their cushy offices with access to unlocked bathrooms? Why don't they go walk the halls once in a while? |
Anonymous
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bathrooms are locked even in MS.
If you see something say something crap ain't working for ya, CO communications! Why hasn't anyone filed a suit already? |
Anonymous
We need more educators to push back and fight MCPS and their spin machine. But too many are afraid. Go to the news or file a lawsuit. That's what MCPS listens to. |
Anonymous
"...educators to push back..." McPS knows. And livelihood. |
Anonymous
thanks to those standing up. disgusting students & staff can't feel safe in a school. And they are supposed to learn in that kinda environment? |
Anonymous
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A few news outlets have reported. below. another one recently by wusa9. last year by WashingtonPost.
[‘Why is nothing being done?’: Concerns grow about drug use, fighting in Montgomery Co. school bathrooms] Kate Ryan | kryan wtop com April 18, 2024 "For many students in Montgomery County public schools, the bathrooms remain a no-go zone due to drug use and fighting. That’s according to testimony at the most recent Board of Education meeting on April 11. During the public comment segment of the meeting, David Gebler, an English teacher at Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, told board members that often, “the halls reek of marijuana.” “Usually, drug use occurs in our bathrooms,” Gebler said. “But vaping directly in the hall is becoming popular.” “Last school year, we had vape detection sensors active in our bathrooms to detect drug use. They were removed over the summer without the knowledge of our new and incoming administration,” Gebler told the board, adding that there are also reports of unknown persons entering school grounds to engage in drug trade. Gebler insisted that the issues he mentioned were not unique to Kennedy High School. Montgomery County student member of the board Sami Saeed appeared clearly frustrated as he told the members of the board he knew exactly what students are saying. “The fights are getting out of hand, the bathrooms are not being monitored,” Saeed said. Saeed, who authored a resolution on school safety and security that was approved by the board in November, said he just recently asked students to give him feedback on school safety. “The number one thing they said was literally ‘why is nothing being done?’ That’s what they told me,” Saeed explained to the board. Acting chief safety officer Adaeze Ezeofor-Andrews told Saeed that she “wholeheartedly” agreed that the school system needs to move faster on updating security improvements, but that it would require collaboration. “We have our work cut out for us,” Ezeofor-Andrews said. “Our shop can’t do it alone.” In an April 2 letter to the MCPS community, interim superintendent Monique Felder said that adding security cameras, weapons and vape detectors are under consideration “for the future.” She added that there is continuous monitoring of school grounds, and urged parents with concerns to contact their principals. “These things should have been addressed six months ago, while we’re saying it’s going to be next year,” Saeed said."] |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
Sounds more like fearmongering than anything. |