White flight from MCPS

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Anonymous wrote:My middle school son is hearing that the bathrooms in the feeder high school all smell like weed. There is good reason for anyone to take flight if they can

All MCPS MS and HS bathrooms are full of kids vaping and getting high. Anyone who tells you otherwise either only has ES kids, is in denial, or lives under a rock

That's not true at the school where I work. I think you must be talking about one of the bad schools.

Every school, even the elite W schools is dealing with drug issues.

Whitman: https://moco360.media/2022/09/21/silver-spring-man-charged-with-drug-distribution-following-whitman-students-death/

Churchill: https://moco360.media/2019/03/28/two-winston-churchill-high-students-taken-to-hospital-after-vaping-on-school-property/

Walter Johnson: https://www.wjpitch.com/top-stories/2018/01/29/an-inside-look-at-wjs-drug-culture/

Wooton: https://www.mymcmedia.org/wootton-seniors-hear-about-dangers-of-drugs-from-parents-who-lost-their-son/

B-CC: https://bcctattler.org/2065/news/trappergate-major-drug-bust-begins-with-b-cc-dealer/

I can literally list a drug incident for almost every MCPS high school if I keep going. So stop the lies.

Yeah, but Larla's private has better drugs. Everything is better in the private schools!

[Anonymous]

Tough news for central admin - how will they be able to blame the failing school system on white supremacy now?

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Anonymous wrote:Virtually every person I know from Mexico and South America are amazing, highly educated, wonderful people. They are cultured, family people, and tremendously value education. So there can't be a problem just because of an increase in "hispanic" people.

Is this sharp rise in the MCPS hispanic population actually due to illegal immigration of poor and/or violent people from central america? If so this is definitely a broader society problem and blame can be placed on on federal government for it's open border polices.

If you read between the lines of the BOE meeting, it seems we’re getting an influx of the latter and not the former.

ICYMI: an 18 year old Latina was murdered by 3 other latinos (teens) this may and the killers were recently arrested. They cut off her head with a machete and dumped the body in a wooded area near a park in Olney.

It barely made the news.

^^^This is in our local schools. It’s a gang problem with rampant violence. It’s why many of them allegedly left Central America.

This story was crazy. I only read about it on the OBEX list serve because we live in the area. Not much (if any?) media coverage at all!

I guess this Latina girl’s life certainly didn’t matter to people here in the DMV.

A machete killing of an 18 yo girl. Let that sink in. Tragic and scary. Why did it not make the news?

Tragic and disturbing yes but not related to MCPS.

She was 18 and likely an MCPS student. How is it not related?

dp.. bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. People don't generally associate that bad event that happened outside the school with the school, especially if the perp is not part of the school.

As an 18 year old, she was either a current or former MCPS student. You don't think it would be traumatic to learn that a classmate was macheted to death in town?

When our school, Kennedy, had a student death, which also happened off-campus by the way, there was an immense amount of school support and messaging around the death. This IS an MCPS issue.

If she was 23, I could see your point, but an 18-year-old either was a present or very recently a former MCPS student.

Bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. I'm sure the kids who know the person whose had bad things happen to them feel sad, but that's not the problem of the school.

I have many complaints about MCPS, but they can't do sh1t about stuff that happens outside the school. You're reaching to blame something on MCPS that's not within their purview.

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People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

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Anonymous wrote:Virtually every person I know from Mexico and South America are amazing, highly educated, wonderful people. They are cultured, family people, and tremendously value education. So there can't be a problem just because of an increase in "hispanic" people.

Is this sharp rise in the MCPS hispanic population actually due to illegal immigration of poor and/or violent people from central america? If so this is definitely a broader society problem and blame can be placed on on federal government for it's open border polices.

If you read between the lines of the BOE meeting, it seems we’re getting an influx of the latter and not the former.

ICYMI: an 18 year old Latina was murdered by 3 other latinos (teens) this may and the killers were recently arrested. They cut off her head with a machete and dumped the body in a wooded area near a park in Olney.

It barely made the news.

^^^This is in our local schools. It’s a gang problem with rampant violence. It’s why many of them allegedly left Central America.

This story was crazy. I only read about it on the OBEX list serve because we live in the area. Not much (if any?) media coverage at all!

I guess this Latina girl’s life certainly didn’t matter to people here in the DMV.

A machete killing of an 18 yo girl. Let that sink in. Tragic and scary. Why did it not make the news?

Tragic and disturbing yes but not related to MCPS.

She was 18 and likely an MCPS student. How is it not related?

dp.. bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. People don't generally associate that bad event that happened outside the school with the school, especially if the perp is not part of the school.

As an 18 year old, she was either a current or former MCPS student. You don't think it would be traumatic to learn that a classmate was macheted to death in town?

When our school, Kennedy, had a student death, which also happened off-campus by the way, there was an immense amount of school support and messaging around the death. This IS an MCPS issue.

If she was 23, I could see your point, but an 18-year-old either was a present or very recently a former MCPS student.

Bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. I'm sure the kids who know the person whose had bad things happen to them feel sad, but that's not the problem of the school.

I have many complaints about MCPS, but they can't do about stuff that happens outside the school. You're reaching to blame something on MCPS that's not within their purview.

Where did I blame MCPS for anything regarding this case? I just said it is an MCPS issue assuming the girl was a current or former student. That's it.

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Anonymous wrote:Virtually every person I know from Mexico and South America are amazing, highly educated, wonderful people. They are cultured, family people, and tremendously value education. So there can't be a problem just because of an increase in "hispanic" people.

Is this sharp rise in the MCPS hispanic population actually due to illegal immigration of poor and/or violent people from central america? If so this is definitely a broader society problem and blame can be placed on on federal government for it's open border polices.

If you read between the lines of the BOE meeting, it seems we’re getting an influx of the latter and not the former.

ICYMI: an 18 year old Latina was murdered by 3 other latinos (teens) this may and the killers were recently arrested. They cut off her head with a machete and dumped the body in a wooded area near a park in Olney.

It barely made the news.

^^^This is in our local schools. It’s a gang problem with rampant violence. It’s why many of them allegedly left Central America.

This story was crazy. I only read about it on the OBEX list serve because we live in the area. Not much (if any?) media coverage at all!

I guess this Latina girl’s life certainly didn’t matter to people here in the DMV.

A machete killing of an 18 yo girl. Let that sink in. Tragic and scary. Why did it not make the news?

Tragic and disturbing yes but not related to MCPS.

She was 18 and likely an MCPS student. How is it not related?

dp.. bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. People don't generally associate that bad event that happened outside the school with the school, especially if the perp is not part of the school.

As an 18 year old, she was either a current or former MCPS student. You don't think it would be traumatic to learn that a classmate was macheted to death in town?

When our school, Kennedy, had a student death, which also happened off-campus by the way, there was an immense amount of school support and messaging around the death. This IS an MCPS issue.

If she was 23, I could see your point, but an 18-year-old either was a present or very recently a former MCPS student.

Bad things happen to kids outside of school all over the country. I'm sure the kids who know the person whose had bad things happen to them feel sad, but that's not the problem of the school.

I have many complaints about MCPS, but they can't do about stuff that happens outside the school. You're reaching to blame something on MCPS that's not within their purview.

Where did I blame MCPS for anything regarding this case? I just said it is an MCPS issue assuming the girl was a current or former student. That's it.

? " it is an MCPS issue" -- it's not an MCPS issue. How can it be an issue for MCPS if the student is a former student.

So, if a child in MCPS dies in a car accident by a drunk driver, is it an "MCPS issue"?

Goodness. You are really reaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

You could always move to another country if you think things would be better there. Which country do you think is a better place to raise kids as a foreigner?

Or did you just want a chance to bash the US?

[Anonymous]

We are considering private vs BCC. Due to the over focus on trans/gay gender pronouns and the under focus on actual teaching. Whatever the Star program is, aka complete garbage. Coupled with pretending it’s ok not to have a real gifted program. At least Florida schools still have programs for the smarter kids early on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My middle school son is hearing that the bathrooms in the feeder high school all smell like weed. There is good reason for anyone to take flight if they can

All MCPS MS and HS bathrooms are full of kids vaping and getting high. Anyone who tells you otherwise either only has ES kids, is in denial, or lives under a rock

That's not true at the school where I work. I think you must be talking about one of the bad schools.

Every school, even the elite W schools is dealing with drug issues.

Whitman: https://moco360.media/2022/09/21/silver-spring-man-charged-with-drug-distribution-following-whitman-students-death/

Churchill: https://moco360.media/2019/03/28/two-winston-churchill-high-students-taken-to-hospital-after-vaping-on-school-property/

Walter Johnson: https://www.wjpitch.com/top-stories/2018/01/29/an-inside-look-at-wjs-drug-culture/

Wooton: https://www.mymcmedia.org/wootton-seniors-hear-about-dangers-of-drugs-from-parents-who-lost-their-son/

B-CC: https://bcctattler.org/2065/news/trappergate-major-drug-bust-begins-with-b-cc-dealer/

I can literally list a drug incident for almost every MCPS high school if I keep going. So stop the lies.

Yeah, but Larla's private has better drugs. Everything is better in the private schools!

If they can only find a half dozen incidents over the last 5 years, we're in better shape than I thought.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

You could always move to another country if you think things would be better there. Which country do you think is a better place to raise kids as a foreigner?

Or did you just want a chance to bash the US?

good heavens, a "America, love it or leave it!" person in 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

You could always move to another country if you think things would be better there. Which country do you think is a better place to raise kids as a foreigner?

Or did you just want a chance to bash the US?

good heavens, a "America, love it or leave it!" person in 2023.

Good heavens no.

The PP says she hates what the world has become, but then goes on to disparage the US specifically. I have family all over the world and the mom of 2 non-White daughters, I will argue that things are not better elsewhere.

But I am interested in knowing where the PP would prefer to raise her kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

You could always move to another country if you think things would be better there. Which country do you think is a better place to raise kids as a foreigner?

Or did you just want a chance to bash the US?

good heavens, a "America, love it or leave it!" person in 2023.

Good heavens no.

The PP says she hates what the world has become, but then goes on to disparage the US specifically. I have family all over the world and the mom of 2 non-White daughters, I will argue that things are not better elsewhere.

But I am interested in knowing where the PP would prefer to raise her kids.

DP...Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark,Switzerland, France...should I continue? The United States is absolutely not the best place in the world anymore....not by a long shot.

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Well, all I ever hear is that "diversity is our strength", so it appears that the schools are getting stronger and stronger.

Exactly!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are scared. Even a W school recently had an incident with a LOADED gun!

I hate hate what the world has become for kids.

My DC is at college. DC said they have active shooter alarm drills, and sometimes, it catches them off guard, and it freaks them out.

So sad that they have to go through this.

There is no safe place in the US: not churches, not even the Capitol building. So sad for my children.

You could always move to another country if you think things would be better there. Which country do you think is a better place to raise kids as a foreigner?

Or did you just want a chance to bash the US?

good heavens, a "America, love it or leave it!" person in 2023.

Good heavens no.

The PP says she hates what the world has become, but then goes on to disparage the US specifically. I have family all over the world and the mom of 2 non-White daughters, I will argue that things are not better elsewhere.

But I am interested in knowing where the PP would prefer to raise her kids.

DP...Iceland, Finland, Norway, Denmark,Switzerland, France...should I continue? The United States is absolutely not the best place in the world anymore....not by a long shot.

Oh, I get it. You prefer more homogeneous societies. Guess that mantra of ‘diversity is our greatest strength’ turns out to be just words. Huh.

And France, lol. That’s rich. France has just as many issues as we do here in the US. Maybe more.