Moving from Arlington to Bethesda(ish) for job--best school clusters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't have them, just loaded guns:

"Montgomery County school officials are trying to reassure parents of students at Albert Einstein High School that the school is safe.

Parents gathered at the high school Monday evening to address their concerns over the discovery of several loaded guns and the arrest of five students and a 20-year-old man with gang connections that stemmed from a student’s firing of a gun in a boys’ bathroom.

On Monday, the school’s principal, James Fernandez, whom students describe as a strict disciplinarian, said, "Einstein is safe, as safe as any other place in the world."

In the last week, some parents have raised questions about how well-protected their children are, and they’ve wondered whether Montgomery County schools will do what many in the District of Columbia have already done — raise metal detectors outside their schools to keep weapons out."

Welcome back to the Einstein troll, quoting from a story from the Washington Examiner from 2008.

[Anonymous]

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/boe/meetings/memorandum/180926%20Cost%20Install%20Metal%20Detectors%2008-30-18-05.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don't have them, just loaded guns:

"Montgomery County school officials are trying to reassure parents of students at Albert Einstein High School that the school is safe.

Parents gathered at the high school Monday evening to address their concerns over the discovery of several loaded guns and the arrest of five students and a 20-year-old man with gang connections that stemmed from a student’s firing of a gun in a boys’ bathroom.

On Monday, the school’s principal, James Fernandez, whom students describe as a strict disciplinarian, said, "Einstein is safe, as safe as any other place in the world."

In the last week, some parents have raised questions about how well-protected their children are, and they’ve wondered whether Montgomery County schools will do what many in the District of Columbia have already done — raise metal detectors outside their schools to keep weapons out."

Welcome back to the Einstein troll, quoting from a story from the Washington Examiner from 2008.

Told you the crazy moms were back. They also posted a Whitman article but its all Einstein all the time

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question: if the schools are not better, and are all the same in one school district, why the big discrepancy in property values close in east county vs close in west county?

Hint: it's the schools

Well, sure, but what specifically about the schools?

Hint: it's not the quality of the curriculum, instruction, facilities, or administration, or the likely educational outcome for a given student at School A vs. School B.

It is about the outcome, who wants their kids to go to a school with a major poverty couture and double digit dropout rates? Going to a school where poverty is called culture is propagating marginal expectations and many a middle class kid has fallen for the trap of trying to look cool to people who will ride their coolness back into the generation poverty class. You better hope your middle class kid doesn't emulate the wrong kids.

The data do not support your assertion.

I'm tickled by the idea of "poverty couture", though.

Me, too! But I think PP hit the nail on the head: it's about parental anxiety that their supposedly brilliant offspring will somehow be lured into a life of disrepute by poor kids. Sure, peer groups matter in adolescence, but any high school in MCPS has a decently-sized cohort of high-achieving kids. The size of the latter matters, of course, but it's there at all schools. IME of attending a W school, a lot of the parents there check out with the assumption that their kids are surrounded by "good kids," so they don't need to monitor what they're up to. Oh, and racism.

Having never had a child in a W school, you are unqualified to opine.

Um. I *attended* a W school. Are you really going to tell me that parents with kids at W schools are *less* wealthy than they were back then? Please.

As for the racism, yes, it's there, loud and clear. It's the water we swim in--all of us--much as people like to pretend otherwise. What else was all the screaming about the boundary study about?

[Anonymous]

May 13, 2019 — FY19-24 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Capital Improvements ... Improvements include vestibules, cameras, and metal detectors.


https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2019/20190513/20190513_7.pdf

[Anonymous]

"Former Montgomery County, Md., school superintendent Joshua Starr said Friday that most parents don't want to see armed teachers as a means of combating school shootings.

"Parents are not supportive of that," Starr, the CEO of PDK International, told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and guest host Lawrence Jones on "Rising."

"Now, there are some parents, particularly more conservative parents, that are supportive, folks are more supportive if there at least 80 hours of training, but overall parents are not supportive of that," Starr continued.

"They want to see mental health services, they want to see metal detectors and armed guards, but they do not want to, for the most part, they do not want teachers to be armed," he said. "

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Aug 31, 2018
Students ask for metal detectors in Montgomery Co. schools http://bit.ly/2NzKloJ

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:May 13, 2019 — FY19-24 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Capital Improvements ... Improvements include vestibules, cameras, and metal detectors.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/col/2019/20190513/20190513_7.pdf

That's a scanned file. Suppose you tell us what page the metal detectors are on, and where they're supposed to go?

[Anonymous]

MCPS doesnt have them but they are coming. Thats how bad its gotten. RIP.

[Anonymous]

I had no idea it had gotten this bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS doesnt have them but they are coming. Thats how bad its gotten. RIP.

They are coming, when and where? And how?

[Anonymous]

Another reason why we are hopefully leaving after this year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS doesnt have them but they are coming. Thats how bad its gotten. RIP.

They are coming, when and where? And how?

Read all the links the PP posted SMH. You can read? Correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had no idea it had gotten this bad.

+1

[Anonymous]

Added to the list of why MCPS is declining quickly.