Lockdown at Blair?

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Anonymous wrote:The new SRO-free system seems really effective at dealing with incidents like this safely. There's been that incident at the W's and RM and now Blair and all 3 seem to be handled quite well. Kudos to MCPS for their post-SRO process.

each time, cops were called.. as in SROs.

We don't have enough information about each incident BUT, my understanding and I forget which school, maybe Churchill, it took some time for police to get there which was unacceptable.

At least SRO's know the kids, the school and are involved. Having a random police officer come makes no sense.

I agree 200 percent!

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Boy howdy did this thread go off the rails.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, the county has to ask if the safety of students attending public schools is important -their decision to remove the HS SROs is telling. We have armed guards at government buildings and our politicians have security. Why are we paying ridiculously high taxes when the county can barely protect our kids. Ask the principals in private what they think of all this.

Parents have spoken. Huge enrollment decline in MCPS: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/opinion/opinion-enrollment-decline-should-be-a-wakeup-call-for-mcps/

The decline is due to Covid and Covid safety.

I know of a handful of parents who left because of covid but are never coming back since they saw what was behind door #2.

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Anonymous wrote:The new SRO-free system seems really effective at dealing with incidents like this safely. There's been that incident at the W's and RM and now Blair and all 3 seem to be handled quite well. Kudos to MCPS for their post-SRO process.

You're in for a surprise, though Virginia flipping really should make it less of a surprise. We've had enough.

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So he's calling for more mental health support for students, but where did it state the suspect was having a mental health crisis? I never saw that. Is he just making assumptions?

It’s his talking point. He does not know how to handle these situations.

Is there ANY evidence that what he is suggesting works?

There is evidence that throwing more money at the problem doesn't always work.

If the young knife wielding gentleman just had access to coloring books and emotional support donkeys then this whole incident would have never happened!

Jwando is the first one that needs to go imo

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, the county has to ask if the safety of students attending public schools is important -their decision to remove the HS SROs is telling. We have armed guards at government buildings and our politicians have security. Why are we paying ridiculously high taxes when the county can barely protect our kids. Ask the principals in private what they think of all this.

Parents have spoken. Huge enrollment decline in MCPS: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/opinion/opinion-enrollment-decline-should-be-a-wakeup-call-for-mcps/

The decline is due to Covid and Covid safety.

I know of a handful of parents who left because of covid but are never coming back since they saw what was behind door #2.

And, it makes sense. We almost left for private and I doubt if we did, we'd come back if our kids were settled but the ones we liked with an opening didn't have the same math track and it was an issue.

It's a bunch of bad choices. But, if you can comfortably afford private (we couldn't but we'd make it work for a few years), I would do it and not look back. I'm not ruling it out in the future.

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So he's calling for more mental health support for students, but where did it state the suspect was having a mental health crisis? I never saw that. Is he just making assumptions?

It’s his talking point. He does not know how to handle these situations.

Is there ANY evidence that what he is suggesting works?

There is evidence that throwing more money at the problem doesn't always work.

If the young knife wielding gentleman just had access to coloring books and emotional support donkeys then this whole incident would have never happened!

Jwando is the first one that needs to go imo

+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy howdy did this thread go off the rails.

This isn't a Blair issue. Nor, is it a Churchill, Wooton, Clarksburg and any other school I'm forgetting having a serious incident in the past few months since reopening. This is an MCPS issue in terms of safety and accountability. This can and will happen at all the high schools and possibly middle schools. We have very large schools and having no security is shameful. Expecting staff to do everything from education to security to parenting is impossible so they either need to hire much more staff or allow these things to happen till a student or staff is dead. If they want more mental health in schools, great, its a fantastic idea but it doesn't have to be all or nothing. We can have SRO's and mental health professionals all working together to help the kids. That would be ideal since some parents refuse to get their kids mental health treatment and expect the schools to do it. As more parents are checked out, the more this stuff will happen as if parents don't have control at home, we cannot expect schools to control those same kids who are used to running wild and not listening to authority. And, MCPS needs to partner more with parents and get more parent involvement. Both MCPS schools we've been at are very very closed and not welcoming to parents. That's a huge red flag to me.

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There's no data that supports my assertion because there have been zero SROs charged with assaulting a student in MCPS for no cause.

There is no police brutality because no police have been charged with brutality is not the convincing argument you think it is.

What about the MCP who got caught on camera screaming in the face of a 5 year-old last year? Do they not count because they weren't SROs? They also were not charged, because it is basically impossible to charge police, nor were they disciplined.

oh so one bad apple means we should get rid of them all? I knew you were going to bring up this strawman argument. Gosh, I could say the same thing about certain groups because of one bad incident.

Next time your kid needs a cop to help them, make sure you tell them not to call the cop because they are all bad. See how that works?

Um yeah if a company is selling apples and some of them are poisonous and they don't try to get rid of the poisonous apples then hell no I am not eating any of those apples.

And I am sure as f^ck not giving any of those apples to my children.

so, along those lines, if one black kid did something bad to your kid will you make sure your kid never interacts with a black kid?

You won’t get a response to that. Obviously.

Anyone? Anyone?

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

If you don't have kids in MCPS, you have no idea what is going on. Its absurd that the BOE members don't have kids or have kids at privates who think they know best for our kids.

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

If you don't have kids in MCPS, you have no idea what is going on. Its absurd that the BOE members don't have kids or have kids at privates who think they know best for our kids.

Gee, and just above on this thread, I read a post saying that unless you're a principal in MCPS, you have no idea what's going on.

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

If you don't have kids in MCPS, you have no idea what is going on. Its absurd that the BOE members don't have kids or have kids at privates who think they know best for our kids.

Gee, and just above on this thread, I read a post saying that unless you're a principal in MCPS, you have no idea what's going on.

Technically that is true, but the discussion is for the BOE. And, even then as principal they don't always know everything going on. But, if your kids are in private, its bizarre you don't go be on the board for the private school vs. MCPS.

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

Not to mention that Jawando is not on the BoE. He's on the county council.

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+1, and I'd like to see a requirement that you have kids in MCPS to sit on the board.

That would be a foolish requirement. If the voters want the BoE members to be MCPS parents, then the voters can express this desire at the ballot box (assuming that there are even candidates who are MCPS parents for the voters to vote for, which there often aren't).

Not to mention that Jawando is not on the BoE. He's on the county council.

And he has children in MCPS (as far as I know).