Schools no longer protected from immigration enforcement. Prepare your kids.

[Anonymous]

MCPS and Maryland are not going to be able to "resist" ICE deportations. Elections have consequences. Deporting illegal immigrants is a duty and right of the federal government.

If parents choose not to send their children to school for fear of deportation, that's their right. But that choice comes with its own consequences as well.

It's dangerous to entertain the idea that the school system should engage in obstruction of law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

But what if your kids crash into a river and can’t get their seatbelt undone and drown? That’s what you’re talking about. Phones are damaging for kids, especially at school. You’re talking about wanting a phone in an extremely unlikely event. The far more likely case is that not having phones at schools helps all the kids.

My kids know how to leave their phone in the backpack unless needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS and Maryland are not going to be able to "resist" ICE deportations. Elections have consequences. Deporting illegal immigrants is a duty and right of the federal government.

If parents choose not to send their children to school for fear of deportation, that's their right. But that choice comes with its own consequences as well.

It's dangerous to entertain the idea that the school system should engage in obstruction of law enforcement.

Some of these kids are citizens with immigrant parents. They don't want their kids in school if parents get taken.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

Reducing cell phone use in schools and this distraction and disruption at school does benefit the entire school community. That in and of itself is not putting kids at risk of ICE raids or missing school. Parent decisions are doing the later. Why would we stop rollout of a program intended to benefit EDUCATION because we are worried some might not send their kids to school, the place of education. Education is the primary purpose of the school and school district.

Because even non-immigrant parents worry about the physical and emotional safety of their children in the event of something as chaotic as armed men dragging classmates out of their school building. If you wouldn’t want to reach your child or your child wouldn’t want to reach you, your family is dysfunctional.

If you think calling or texting your child on a cell phone is going to be what prevents them from being rounded up and deported by ICE, you're delusional.

[Anonymous]

I teach 100% Hispanic students. Most of them were born in the US. If any of them are picked up at school by ICE, they’ll have to go through me first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moderator should either lock this thread or ask OP et al to post memo received by staff and teachers, or a news link or other announcements.

News link: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-scraps-guidance-limiting-immigration-arrests-near-certain-locations-2025-01-21/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Immigrant parents and those with children who are POC, prepare them for how to stay safe and get reunited with you afterwards. Consider sending your kids to school with photocopies of their BC or passport. And if your kids are too little to remember important info, get them an ID bracelet. Give older kids an ACLU card that tells them what they don’t have to do if questioned by LEOs.

Even if your kid is White or White-presenting, they will be emotionally impacted.

My school is suspending rollout of our cellphone lock up system in response to the anticipated ICE raids in our region. Parents won’t send their kids if they have no way to reach them if a raid starts.

So ya’ll are stopping a program rollout that benefits that entire school community because of fear of something that isn’t guaranteed to happened?

It doesn’t benefit the whole community if it puts some kids at risk.

I make my kids wear seatbelts and look both ways when cross the street because of something that isn’t guaranteed to happen. It’s a bare minimum for decent parenting.

But what if your kids crash into a river and can’t get their seatbelt undone and drown? That’s what you’re talking about. Phones are damaging for kids, especially at school. You’re talking about wanting a phone in an extremely unlikely event. The far more likely case is that not having phones at schools helps all the kids.

My kids know how to leave their phone in the backpack unless needed.

Unless needed? What if they "need" it while in classroom? Most schools' lockers are in a hallway outside the classroom (exception could be younger grades who have cubbies in the classroom).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moderator should either lock this thread or ask OP et al to post memo received by staff and teachers, or a news link or other announcements.

Not OP but this is a pretty widely known thing, do you really need sources? Here's a story about Chicago bur there's no reason to think this doesn't apply to MCPS too: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chicago-deportation-plans-fears-donald-trump-administration-ice-raids-impacting-little-village-businesses/15822610/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have little doubt immigration enforcement may ramp up but I doubt they are starting in suburban elementary schools. You’re hysterical and fear mongering. It doesn’t even make sense as so many of the kids are citizens compared to their illegal parents it just wouldn’t be an efficient use of manpower and impossible to do. Get out of your own head

1. Interesting that this is another case of white/wealthy privilege

2. It doesn't matter who is a citizen. It matters who can prove they are a citizen. This can be hard for citizen children of non-citizens.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS and Maryland are not going to be able to "resist" ICE deportations. Elections have consequences. Deporting illegal immigrants is a duty and right of the federal government.

If parents choose not to send their children to school for fear of deportation, that's their right. But that choice comes with its own consequences as well.

It's dangerous to entertain the idea that the school system should engage in obstruction of law enforcement.

Some of these kids are citizens with immigrant parents. They don't want their kids in school if parents get taken.

ICE is not going to give them enough notice for them to run from school to home in time in the event that their illegal immigrant parents are deported. The whole point is moot and silly.

The threat of deportation is not a reason to pause the in-school cell phone restriction policies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moderator should either lock this thread or ask OP et al to post memo received by staff and teachers, or a news link or other announcements.

Not OP but this is a pretty widely known thing, do you really need sources? Here's a story about Chicago bur there's no reason to think this doesn't apply to MCPS too: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chicago-deportation-plans-fears-donald-trump-administration-ice-raids-impacting-little-village-businesses/15822610/

It's even more "widely known" that "they're eating the cats and dogs out there" an "Minneapolis burned to the ground in 2020".

Every time you spread a rumor without cutting your source, you are contributing to this chaotic hellscape.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS and Maryland are not going to be able to "resist" ICE deportations. Elections have consequences. Deporting illegal immigrants is a duty and right of the federal government.

If parents choose not to send their children to school for fear of deportation, that's their right. But that choice comes with its own consequences as well.

It's dangerous to entertain the idea that the school system should engage in obstruction of law enforcement.

Troll.

You're the first person in this thread who wrote "resist".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moderator should either lock this thread or ask OP et al to post memo received by staff and teachers, or a news link or other announcements.

Not OP but this is a pretty widely known thing, do you really need sources? Here's a story about Chicago bur there's no reason to think this doesn't apply to MCPS too: https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chicago-deportation-plans-fears-donald-trump-administration-ice-raids-impacting-little-village-businesses/15822610/

It's even more "widely known" that "they're eating the cats and dogs out there" an "Minneapolis burned to the ground in 2020".

Every time you spread a rumor without cutting your source, you are contributing to this chaotic hellscape.

It's not a rumor. Trump rescinded the "sensitive areas" put in place by Biden which means hospitals, churches, and schools are back on the table for enforcement actions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach 100% Hispanic students. Most of them were born in the US. If any of them are picked up at school by ICE, they’ll have to go through me first.

You are a teacher, not a hero. You must also not have a family to go home to as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach 100% Hispanic students. Most of them were born in the US. If any of them are picked up at school by ICE, they’ll have to go through me first.

how do you know where they are born did they show their birth certificates? Are you going to obstruct lawful investigations and get arrested?