Paint Branch High Fights

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Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

This will never happen here. Then all you'll have is a school that is filled with kids who misbehave and do crime. MCPS is not interested in making schools like prison.
What they need to do is start clarifying what types of behavior are accepted and won't be accepted, holding kids accountable without regard to who did it and why, and bringing up SROs to support the already overwhelmed staff who are stuck dealing with these fights.

Mark Twain should be brought back but not in its previous form. Think of it more as a detox and recovery center, that kids who need therapy, support, love and attention. They should be able, with a track record of good behavior.

So Mark Twain should have double or triple the counselors and social workers as the traditional school, with a focus on repairing, healing and restoring these students so they can return to their home school. This is similar to how substance users have to be isolated and treated before you dump them back into society. They can't do that work in their normal everyday environment for their safety and everyone else's.

They can’t bring Mark Twain back because it would not be Equitable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

This will never happen here. Then all you'll have is a school that is filled with kids who misbehave and do crime. MCPS is not interested in making schools like prison.
What they need to do is start clarifying what types of behavior are accepted and won't be accepted, holding kids accountable without regard to who did it and why, and bringing up SROs to support the already overwhelmed staff who are stuck dealing with these fights.

Mark Twain should be brought back but not in its previous form. Think of it more as a detox and recovery center, that kids who need therapy, support, love and attention. They should be able, with a track record of good behavior.

So Mark Twain should have double or triple the counselors and social workers as the traditional school, with a focus on repairing, healing and restoring these students so they can return to their home school. This is similar to how substance users have to be isolated and treated before you dump them back into society. They can't do that work in their normal everyday environment for their safety and everyone else's.

Yeah MCPS has that, it is called Alternative Programs.

Why aren't more kids referred to it then?

[Anonymous]

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Assault isn't an MCPS matter. Sounds like they should involve the police.

Assault on school grounds is an MCPS matter. Things get gray because a fight on the school bus is MCPS jurisdiction but the bus stop isn't necessarily.

The twitter post above said it wasn't on school grounds. And schools aren't some magical place where different laws apply. The county still has jurisdiction. MCPS has no business dispensing justice. These are criminal matters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Assault isn't an MCPS matter. Sounds like they should involve the police.

Assault on school grounds is an MCPS matter. Things get gray because a fight on the school bus is MCPS jurisdiction but the bus stop isn't necessarily.

The twitter post above said it wasn't on school grounds. And schools aren't some magical place where different laws apply. The county still has jurisdiction. MCPS has no business dispensing justice. These are criminal matters.

As you know, when it comes to fights, because it involves minors and juveniles, not all fights are categorized as assaults and referred to the police. MCPS has a lot of discretion with a fight on when to deal with it as just a disciplinary issue vs when to refer it to police.

Other areas, like sexual assault and rape, have less gray area, but when it comes to fights, MCPS has a lot of say in how it gets handled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Assault isn't an MCPS matter. Sounds like they should involve the police.

Assault on school grounds is an MCPS matter. Things get gray because a fight on the school bus is MCPS jurisdiction but the bus stop isn't necessarily.

The twitter post above said it wasn't on school grounds. And schools aren't some magical place where different laws apply. The county still has jurisdiction. MCPS has no business dispensing justice. These are criminal matters.

As you know, when it comes to fights, because it involves minors and juveniles, not all fights are categorized as assaults and referred to the police. MCPS has a lot of discretion with a fight on when to deal with it as just a disciplinary issue vs when to refer it to police.

Other areas, like sexual assault and rape, have less gray area, but when it comes to fights, MCPS has a lot of say in how it gets handled.

They don't want to call the police because #equity.

But if the adults feel threatened, they'll call the police. If the kids are threatened, they won't call the police because, again, #equity.

Do you think Elrich wouldn't call the cops if he was physically threatened by a bunch of HSers some possibly with weapons? Do you think he'd tell them that they should all sit in a circle and talk it out via Restorative Justice?

Yet, RJ is what Elrich, Jawando, and the rest of the progressive liberals want our kids to do when they feel threatened in school.

Not that I wish for any kid to be threatened, but it would serve some of these social justice warriors right if their kids were threatened at school. Oh wait, Jawando sends his kids to private school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

This will never happen here. Then all you'll have is a school that is filled with kids who misbehave and do crime. MCPS is not interested in making schools like prison.
What they need to do is start clarifying what types of behavior are accepted and won't be accepted, holding kids accountable without regard to who did it and why, and bringing up SROs to support the already overwhelmed staff who are stuck dealing with these fights.

Mark Twain should be brought back but not in its previous form. Think of it more as a detox and recovery center, that kids who need therapy, support, love and attention. They should be able, with a track record of good behavior.

So Mark Twain should have double or triple the counselors and social workers as the traditional school, with a focus on repairing, healing and restoring these students so they can return to their home school. This is similar to how substance users have to be isolated and treated before you dump them back into society. They can't do that work in their normal everyday environment for their safety and everyone else's.

Yeah MCPS has that, it is called Alternative Programs.

Why aren't more kids referred to it then?

It is not Equitable. When Mark Twain was open, it was home to too many students of color. MCPS does not like the way that looks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Assault isn't an MCPS matter. Sounds like they should involve the police.

Assault on school grounds is an MCPS matter. Things get gray because a fight on the school bus is MCPS jurisdiction but the bus stop isn't necessarily.

The twitter post above said it wasn't on school grounds. And schools aren't some magical place where different laws apply. The county still has jurisdiction. MCPS has no business dispensing justice. These are criminal matters.

As you know, when it comes to fights, because it involves minors and juveniles, not all fights are categorized as assaults and referred to the police. MCPS has a lot of discretion with a fight on when to deal with it as just a disciplinary issue vs when to refer it to police.

Other areas, like sexual assault and rape, have less gray area, but when it comes to fights, MCPS has a lot of say in how it gets handled.

They don't want to call the police because #equity.

But if the adults feel threatened, they'll call the police. If the kids are threatened, they won't call the police because, again, #equity.

Do you think Elrich wouldn't call the cops if he was physically threatened by a bunch of HSers some possibly with weapons? Do you think he'd tell them that they should all sit in a circle and talk it out via Restorative Justice?

Yet, RJ is what Elrich, Jawando, and the rest of the progressive liberals want our kids to do when they feel threatened in school.

Not that I wish for any kid to be threatened, but it would serve some of these social justice warriors right if their kids were threatened at school. Oh wait, Jawando sends his kids to private school.

This is absolutely true. Jawando pushed hard to remove SROs from school and was very vocal with his anti-police rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

I HEARD Jawando has kids both in MCPS and private school. Haven't independently validated that but that's the defense I heard and saw when that point is brought up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I HEARD Jawando has kids both in MCPS and private school. Haven't independently validated that but that's the defense I heard and saw when that point is brought up.

They started out at MCPS and then moved to an idyllic private school where they don't have to encounter kids who start fights.. the same kids who their father has been "fighting for" by removing SROs. Rules for thee, but not for me. What a HYPOCRITE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like how the MoCoPGNews person has decided to stop tweeting videos of fights because it just encourages fights and the video-ing thereof. It would be nice if they had decided this sooner, but better late than never.

They also inaccurately posted today that Blake was on lockdown. Spreading rumors is not helpful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

One could argue that shoving all of the broken and dysfunctional kids into a building where there is no normal is not fair or safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

One could argue that shoving all of the broken and dysfunctional kids into a building where there is no normal is not fair or safe.

So putting them in buildings that are supposed to be safe learning environments are fair to the students who do want to learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

One could argue that shoving all of the broken and dysfunctional kids into a building where there is no normal is not fair or safe.

So putting them in buildings that are supposed to be safe learning environments are fair to the students who do want to learn?

JHC!!! How is it that you actually believe sick kids, or kids that have been abused terribly, don't want to learn???????? What in the actual heck is wrong with you????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kids are not okay. SMH.

Schools need to be smaller. 500 for MS. 1000 for HS. Classroom sizes need to be much smaller. 15 for MS. 20 for HS. Stagger the school day and make school year round so there is an AM shift and a PM shift. Cramming adolescents together in packed hallways and classroom increases their stress and helps leads to stupid disputes. But smaller populations cost money so MCPS just adds additional security.

The stupid disputes 9/10 have nothing to do with school. They tend to be about:

1) Perceived slights of disrespect (sometimes influenced by older gang affiliated teens who egg the fights on for their entertainment and/or to initiate them into the gang). These slights are sometimes amplified by social media and group chats that spread the humiliation.
2) Fights over girlfriends/boyfriends
3) Trash talking that goes too far either in games or sports. This trash talking can be amplified by group chats and social media as well.

I'm not saying there's not some merit to smaller schools, but that isn't why these kids are fighting.

What do you expect when the county has built multiple low income housing communities in that area? Of course sending all the poor section 8 kids to the 2 high schools in that area would cause problems. what do you expect from communities that lack strong parents and are raised to get upset and take offense at every little comment. I live in that area and it's scary as shit.

Before I respond in further detail, I want to preface that low-income housing communities are definitely correlated with crime, violence, instability, etc. But we have to be fair and clear that there are also plenty of hard-working, honest, low-income families too. We can't paint everyone with a broad brush, but yes, the instances of those negative things are definitely much higher in those communities.

Honestly, I don't know what MCPS or MoCo can do. They're providing those families with housing and food and education, but it's not the government's job to teach values, ethics and morals. That's society's, the community's and the family's.

This is where I feel for MCPS because they can't fix dysfunctional families. The best they can do is isolate, contain and refer them for treatment and services, but no government entity can make anyone become a better person. So the situation seems like one with no solution.

I do agree with a PP that we need Mark Twain back. You can't have broken and dysfunctional kids bleeding all over everyone else emotionally and spreading their trauma and chaos with no safety net. It's not fair and it's not safe.

I agree with everything you said. Well put.

One could argue that shoving all of the broken and dysfunctional kids into a building where there is no normal is not fair or safe.

So putting them in buildings that are supposed to be safe learning environments are fair to the students who do want to learn?

JHC!!! How is it that you actually believe sick kids, or kids that have been abused terribly, don't want to learn???????? What in the actual heck is wrong with you????

And so all the kids who fight and start violence are sick or abused? That's what we're saying now?