taxes and funding for MCPS need to be drastically cut in MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids ODed all the time in my school in the 80s. But they didn’t tell all the parents! We only knew because we’d see the ambulances.

+1. The electives hallway bathroom in my suburban public school in the 90s was an open air drug market, but oh noooo, kids these days!!! Clutch your pearls harder!!!

Where did y'all go to school at? Mogadishu? There were never open drug markets and bathrooms turned into drug dens when I was in high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So... two girls were drunk at school at 8am (woah, commitment). They were found, sent to the hospital, and their parents were contacted. Seven hours later all parents were alerted to what happened. Why did all parents need to be contacted at all and why is it a problem for not-the-girls' parents that they were not contacted sooner?

What was the problem? They were found passed out on the floor of a bathroom. Obviously there was concern and rumors floating around about fentanyl. Early, direct and honest communication is all that would have been needed. Instead all they did was send an email telling people not to spread rumors.

This was a discipline issue, not fodder for your gossip circle. I'm fine with MCPS not putting out a press release every time they catch idle rich kids acting like a**holes. While it feeds my schadenfreude, it isn't actually a good use of resources, nor is it any of my business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. BLAH BLAH BLAH.

That's TROLLtastic!@

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids ODed all the time in my school in the 80s. But they didn’t tell all the parents! We only knew because we’d see the ambulances.

+1. The electives hallway bathroom in my suburban public school in the 90s was an open air drug market, but oh noooo, kids these days!!! Clutch your pearls harder!!!

Where did y'all go to school at? Mogadishu? There were never open drug markets and bathrooms turned into drug dens when I was in high school.

Apparently they weren't very aware of what was going on...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, while I agree that MCPS has problems, the case of the two passed out girls is a parenting issue. It happened at 8am(!!!) which means the girls were likely drinking before school.

Except bathrooms in schools are now locked because too many students were using them as drug dens. Absolutely sickening. Of course there are consequences for using drugs on school property. MCPS are a joke. Nothing but hangout clubs where zero learning goes on.

All of the bathrooms in all of the schools are locked? The things I learn on DCUM.

No, not all the bathrooms. But various schools have locked up certain bathrooms due to drug use.

more like tiktok inspired vanadlalism

[Anonymous]

What a ridiculous post. The principal should have told the kids there was no threat but has no reason to send an email to parents immediately.

And even if you disagree jumping from there to cutting funds for MCPS is just dumb, or I guess trolltastic

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t we just elected 1/3 of the BOE and appointed new superintendent?

Superintendent needs to resign.

Why exactly?

Because she doesn't have the confidence of parents or MCPS educators.

She's done a great job and fully has my confidence. I think the poster would be angry no matter who ran MCPS other than a Republican.

[Anonymous]

Just say you don’t have kids in public schools and hate supporting them next time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

Why aren't you blaming the 2 students and their parents?

In your mind BCC and the Central Office handled the situation perfectly?

Sure, I feel 2 kids coming to school drunk is more of an issue for the police and their families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids ODed all the time in my school in the 80s. But they didn’t tell all the parents! We only knew because we’d see the ambulances.

+1. The electives hallway bathroom in my suburban public school in the 90s was an open air drug market, but oh noooo, kids these days!!! Clutch your pearls harder!!!

Where did y'all go to school at? Mogadishu? There were never open drug markets and bathrooms turned into drug dens when I was in high school.

Lol right?! Especially in MCPS? I never heard of it.

What was considered to be a “bad school” back in the ‘90s was one where kids fought a lot, skipped class or smoked cigarettes, but definitely not an open air drug market!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

Why aren't you blaming the 2 students and their parents?

In your mind BCC and the Central Office handled the situation perfectly?

What, precisely, do you think MCPS should have done differently.better in this situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids ODed all the time in my school in the 80s. But they didn’t tell all the parents! We only knew because we’d see the ambulances.

+1. The electives hallway bathroom in my suburban public school in the 90s was an open air drug market, but oh noooo, kids these days!!! Clutch your pearls harder!!!

Where did y'all go to school at? Mogadishu? There were never open drug markets and bathrooms turned into drug dens when I was in high school.

Lol right?! Especially in MCPS? I never heard of it.

What was considered to be a “bad school” back in the ‘90s was one where kids fought a lot, skipped class or smoked cigarettes, but definitely not an open air drug market!

You missed a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

Why aren't you blaming the 2 students and their parents?

In your mind BCC and the Central Office handled the situation perfectly?

What, precisely, do you think MCPS should have done differently.better in this situation?

Just let parents know what was going on. Easy. There isn’t just one administrator in each high school. There is a whole team. Assign one of the half dozen administrators the job of sending out the pre-written email when there is a lockdown, shelter in place or whatever. It’s all canned so no problem with content. Just click send.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So sick and tired of paying money for this trash:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/2023/01/23/b-cc-silence-criticized-after-two-students-found-unconscious-in-school-bathroom/

Kids in MCPS go to school because they are hangout clubs where they can do whatever they want these days with impunity. Kids passed out drunk in BCC is a common occurrence to all of the widespread and out of control drug use in MC public high schools. Everyone already knows the problems are so bad in Moco schools that they have to now completely lock the bathrooms in schools to prevent all of the drug use. Scores continue to decline, discipline is zero, and there is never any accountability. Why does anyone pay taxes for these craptacular results? If all we are paying for are spaces where idiot kids can behave like lord of the flies, time to cut spending to the bone and give tax payers their money back. All of that billions is sure as hell not be used for learning. MCPS continue to go down the tubes.

Why aren't you blaming the 2 students and their parents?

In your mind BCC and the Central Office handled the situation perfectly?

What, precisely, do you think MCPS should have done differently.better in this situation?

Just let parents know what was going on. Easy. There isn’t just one administrator in each high school. There is a whole team. Assign one of the half dozen administrators the job of sending out the pre-written email when there is a lockdown, shelter in place or whatever. It’s all canned so no problem with content. Just click send.

The bottleneck isn’t the admin team. It’s central office. They mandate all communications route through them so they can neuter and censor any details as much as possible.

So the delay has nothing to do with the principal having to do both crisis management and community communication, which I agree doesn’t make sense, but central office’s policy of requiring all comms to go through them first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kids ODed all the time in my school in the 80s. But they didn’t tell all the parents! We only knew because we’d see the ambulances.

+1. The electives hallway bathroom in my suburban public school in the 90s was an open air drug market, but oh noooo, kids these days!!! Clutch your pearls harder!!!

Where did y'all go to school at? Mogadishu? There were never open drug markets and bathrooms turned into drug dens when I was in high school.

Lol right?! Especially in MCPS? I never heard of it.

What was considered to be a “bad school” back in the ‘90s was one where kids fought a lot, skipped class or smoked cigarettes, but definitely not an open air drug market!

Well, back in the 70s and 80s, it was an open-air drug market...