School safety - What is MCPS actually doing and considering doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That would work at a private school, not public. You can’t just unenroll a kid for that reason.

Who exactly said that? No one.
Bottom line is that public schools have become a circus, complete with throwing chairs at the teachers.

And taxpayers get to fund your circus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nada. Drive teacher crazy and also no one is learning squat except how to manipulate the system.

True. What is the Department of Education doing about this? Absolutely nothing? Fire them all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That's...illegal?

How? Parents are mandated to fill out forms every year before their child can be enrolled.

Yes, but not picking up the phone doesn't equate to anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That would work at a private school, not public. You can’t just unenroll a kid for that reason.

Who exactly said that? No one.
Bottom line is that public schools have become a circus, complete with throwing chairs at the teachers.

And taxpayers get to fund your circus.

That’s because there is no accountability with mcps or the BOE. They have the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

That's illegal. You can't premise access to public education on a working phone number

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That's...illegal?

How? Parents are mandated to fill out forms every year before their child can be enrolled.

Yes, but not picking up the phone doesn't equate to anything

Not responding to repeated messages over time indicates an invalid number. Parents are required to update school records with a change of phone number or change of address. You already know that, don’t you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

That long article about how MCPS is failing our special needs kids did not at all have the perspective that there are some parenting fails that are greatly contributing to the behavior issues. And yes I can confirm that this happens in the ES where I work. Parents don’t want to deal with their own kid.

Here’s an idea. Do the paperwork and push for a special placement and more help. I wouldn’t get my kid either. Don’t have a kid like that but have a kid with sn and we’ve been refused an iep or any help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

That long article about how MCPS is failing our special needs kids did not at all have the perspective that there are some parenting fails that are greatly contributing to the behavior issues. And yes I can confirm that this happens in the ES where I work. Parents don’t want to deal with their own kid.

Here’s an idea. Do the paperwork and push for a special placement and more help. I wouldn’t get my kid either. Don’t have a kid like that but have a kid with sn and we’ve been refused an iep or any help.

Should teachers be assaulted? If a child is violent in the classroom, why wouldn’t you come to get him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That's...illegal?

How? Parents are mandated to fill out forms every year before their child can be enrolled.

Yes, but not picking up the phone doesn't equate to anything

Not responding to repeated messages over time indicates an invalid number. Parents are required to update school records with a change of phone number or change of address. You already know that, don’t you?

It doesn't indicate that at all. There's a post right under your response of a parent who won't even pick up their child, so what makes you think all parents are picking up their phones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

Do public schools no longer require daytime contact (functioning) phone numbers before child can be enrolled?

Of course. But now parents have called ID and know it’s the school calling.

With repeated unanswered calls by your child’s school, you inform parents that child is disenrolled…
But schools continue to tolerate all kinds of nonsense, right?

That's...illegal?

How? Parents are mandated to fill out forms every year before their child can be enrolled.

Yes, but not picking up the phone doesn't equate to anything

Not responding to repeated messages over time indicates an invalid number. Parents are required to update school records with a change of phone number or change of address. You already know that, don’t you?

It doesn't indicate that at all. There's a post right under your response of a parent who won't even pick up their child, so what makes you think all parents are picking up their phones?

You sound like you’re part of the grossly corrupted administration. Are you? Please be honest.

If you aren’t, what solutions do you propose? (More money is not the answer. — No country spends as much money as we do.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mentally ill, violent kids need medical attention. Teachers are not physicians.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Re: mass shootings and drills: this is just a national reality now. Even the private school I worked at had drills and locked doors.

Re: guns confiscated on high school campuses: this is an issue of beefs between specific violent kids with major issues, and highly unlikely to affect your average middle class kid.

Re: chair-throwers: this is the real issue at the elementary level. Kids with emotional disturbances who cannot regulate themselves but who the school cannot legally send elsewhere or restrain or otherwise deal with. This is definitely something you will experience that we need a solution for.

When a kid goes on a chair and desk throwing rampage, why can’t a parent be called to pick up their child?

Because half the time the parents don't pick up the phone. When they do, they often refuse to come get their kid.

That long article about how MCPS is failing our special needs kids did not at all have the perspective that there are some parenting fails that are greatly contributing to the behavior issues. And yes I can confirm that this happens in the ES where I work. Parents don’t want to deal with their own kid.

Here’s an idea. Do the paperwork and push for a special placement and more help. I wouldn’t get my kid either. Don’t have a kid like that but have a kid with sn and we’ve been refused an iep or any help.

Should teachers be assaulted? If a child is violent in the classroom, why wouldn’t you come to get him?

Many of these families beg for help and aren't getting it. If I begged for help and it was denied, at some point no. I tried to get an IEP this year. Long documented SN. I was refused even an evaluation. I reached out the the AP and she said she would help and made a dumb comment why. At some point, schools/admin need to step up and help these kids and teachers or find new jobs.

[Anonymous]

The system is massively corrupted, starting at the dept of ed.

[Anonymous]

So many MAGA posting on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many MAGA posting on this thread.

Maybe MCPS should stop giving them so much ammunition.