MCPS explains why it failed to properly report school shooting and stabbings
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Anonymous
What a ridiculous analogy. No, it’s like multiple CVS employees at multiple stores being victims of crimes by other CVS employees, while working at CVS. Because that is what is happening in MCPS. Our students are victims of crimes (either from other students or from faculty/staff/bus drivers). It is definitely a problem that MCPS should be acknowledging and addressing. |
Anonymous
There was no opinion piece. There was an ABC7 news report on MCPS admitting that they did not follow the law. |
Anonymous
The failure to report serious incidents at Clarksburg, Blair, and Magruder shows MCPS employees do not take their responsibilities to follow the law seriously. State letters of findings and recent agreements with the US Department of Education (all searchable and are public information with FOIA requests) also show serious civil rights violations by MCPS. Even staff members have reported acts of retaliation. There’s a general theme that aligns with LCPS regarding higher levels of school administration knowingly not fixing violations even after problems are identified. |
Anonymous
Are you all people really that dumb or your reading comprehension skills really that lacking? Of course they reported those incidents, but " The school system must then hold an after-action meeting and review within 45 days of the incident and file a report with the governor within 60 days following the meeting." This is the part they did not do in a timely matter.
It is just meetings folks. My Gosh!! |
Anonymous
They didn’t have the review meeting and they didn’t file the necessary report. We are talking serious incidents that had the potential of killing a student. Not something MCPS should take lightly. Doing the necessary review at the first incident would have been helpful for MCPS’s response to the next two incidents. FYI if you want another example of MCPS administrators not following the law, think of how MCPS handled Damascus. |
Anonymous
Speaking of ridiculous... You may want to look in the mirror. |
Anonymous
Actually they were reported but not to you. Sorry if that makes you feel sidelined but MCPS has a lot of bigger fish to fry than catering to your every whim. |
Anonymous
Did they have timely meetings for the Whitman student that attacked the Churchill students with a knife? |
Anonymous
Or what about the Springbrook student raped in a school bathroom? The amount of gaslighting in MCPS only makes administrators look like cold hearted a-holes who want to cover up problems vs. doing the work to educate and protect students. |
Anonymous
Glad you can joke about MCPS not following the law. They didn't report to the Governor. |
Anonymous
The Clery Act only applies to higher education, not K-12. It was introduced because universities were failing to notify students and staff about crime on campus, and trying to handle on-campus crimes include rape "in-house" instead of turning it over to the local police. We need the same for K-12 schools. |
Anonymous
Why must you use facts to detract from these fake scandals? Sure there weren't any laws broken but we were trying to pretend that MCPS was somehow delinquint. |
Anonymous
Exactly. They shoved police out of schools. School safety is 100% MCPS' responsibility now. 100%. All of this is on them. And because of that, they will sweep incidents under the rug as much as possible. |
Anonymous
MCPS admitted they didn't follow the law. That's a fact. But you have to earn your MCPS PR salary, so keep posting garbage all day. Maybe do some Wordle on the side, but keep at your lame attempt to cover up MCPS violating the law. |
Anonymous
As a PP pointed out, the law you're referring to isn't applicable to MCPS. |