BCC on lockdown
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Anonymous
Health room of course. Other though? They used to be locked weren't they in past years? |
Anonymous
Parents have already contacted state officials. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
| These poor kids, teachers, and staff. Hopefully everyone is safe and this is over soon. The park behind that CVS is a known spot for dealing drugs. Any kid that is involved with shootings, car jackings, dealing drugs, fights, etc should not be allowed back at school the next day. It's ridiculous. These kids need to face consequences for dangerous behavior that puts peoples lives in jeopardy, massively, disrupts the community, interrupts learning, and monopolizes resources such as the police department. |
Anonymous
Restorative justice doesn't allow for consequences or accountability. This is what Mo Co and greater Md has voted for. Enjoy. |
Anonymous
In case it somehow escaped your notice, people overestimate minority prevalence because they look different and scary. |
Anonymous
| 20 kids? BCC Students? Vagrants? Flash mob? |
Anonymous
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Problem kids need somewhere to go. That's the issue, and it's actually a financial one. Public schools are obligated to educate all kids. Some kids with special needs can theoretically be placed in private schools, paid by MCPS, however in practice, the wait lists are terribly long and a lot of children with severe needs cannot get an appropriate placement at all. The violent children have a similar problem: they have a school that can take them in, but due to space constraints, these children are placed back in mainstream schools after a while. Often not their home school, but another school. Sometimes violent kids attend several schools in MCPS before aging out of the system. They leave a trail of destruction, because their needs are complex and cannot be addressed (severe mental issues combined with disastrous home lives). So we need to come up with more money to build a larger facility to educate violent minors. This is in everyone's best interest, because we do not want violent kids terrorizing adults and children in mainstream schools. |
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There is a video circulating of the whole fight. Why are these kids videoing instead of calling the police?
Feel badly for all the kids doing the right thing today and the teachers who just want to teach. The school is in lockdown because they cant allow the shooter back in and cant allow the rest of the kids out until the area is deemed clear. Parents just need to relax and maybe fight harder for gun reform. It's not just BCC, its the entire country. |
Anonymous
Both MD and DC have quite strict gun laws. |
Anonymous
Going to go out on limb here and say that the ones who would rush to call the police were probably sitting in class at the time. |
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I realize people may be offended by my lumping in children with special needs and children who are violent, and calling them all "problem kids". I actually have a child with special needs (who was in a special program and was never aggressive). I apologize for the shorthand.
My point is that kids who need extra accommodations and services need more budget allocations to implement them, regardless of whether the taxpayer believes they "deserve" them or not. |
Anonymous
MCPS closed the school for students with severe behavioral issues years ago. It was called Mark Twain school, in Rockville. Back when I was in MCPS HS many decades ago, a common threat among the kids is if you did something really bad, you'd end up at Twain. One of the reasons for closing is that the students there were disproportionately of a certain gender and race, and that was not equitable. |
Anonymous
Hmm "not equitable" in this case also means "don't want to spend the money". I hope we can reconsider! |