MCPS leadership gives pathetic response to bathroom safety concerns raised by parents

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly, it is the best they can do. Why don't you volunteer as security to walk the halls?

Unlikely that MCPS would allow the OP to volunteer. I would imagine they would want well-trained security personnel to do that job in case there are issues with a student doing drugs, etc.

Well, they would not actually actively do anything. They just sit there as a deterrence. Let's let them have this job so they can settle down.

Actually, most kids do not have an issue with going to the bathroom. They just go the their stall and do their thing. Easy-peasy. The issue is locking them so that kids cannot go to the bathroom.

Why are you ignoring the kids who are repeatedly and publicly saying they're assaulted by the sights and smells of drug use, witnessing violence or assault or the victim of both and that it makes them AVOID USING THE BATHROOM.

What do you gain from denying and ignoring this? Why doesn't their safety and wellbeing matter to you?

What will your poor child do if they go to a restaurant or concert or movie and smell these things in the bathroom????? Pleazzzzzzzzz!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly, it is the best they can do. Why don't you volunteer as security to walk the halls?

Unlikely that MCPS would allow the OP to volunteer. I would imagine they would want well-trained security personnel to do that job in case there are issues with a student doing drugs, etc.

Well, they would not actually actively do anything. They just sit there as a deterrence. Let's let them have this job so they can settle down.

Actually, most kids do not have an issue with going to the bathroom. They just go the their stall and do their thing. Easy-peasy. The issue is locking them so that kids cannot go to the bathroom.

Why are you ignoring the kids who are repeatedly and publicly saying they're assaulted by the sights and smells of drug use, witnessing violence or assault or the victim of both and that it makes them AVOID USING THE BATHROOM.

What do you gain from denying and ignoring this? Why doesn't their safety and wellbeing matter to you?

What will your poor child do if they go to a restaurant or concert or movie and smell these things in the bathroom????? Pleazzzzzzzzz!

I have never been to a restaurant or movie theater and walked in on drug use or violence.

Concerts/music festivals, that could happen, but my kid would be an adult by the time that's an issue.

Now I'm wondering what's going on in the restaurants and movie theaters that you go to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clearly, it is the best they can do. Why don't you volunteer as security to walk the halls?

Unlikely that MCPS would allow the OP to volunteer. I would imagine they would want well-trained security personnel to do that job in case there are issues with a student doing drugs, etc.

Well, they would not actually actively do anything. They just sit there as a deterrence. Let's let them have this job so they can settle down.

Actually, most kids do not have an issue with going to the bathroom. They just go the their stall and do their thing. Easy-peasy. The issue is locking them so that kids cannot go to the bathroom.

Why are you ignoring the kids who are repeatedly and publicly saying they're assaulted by the sights and smells of drug use, witnessing violence or assault or the victim of both and that it makes them AVOID USING THE BATHROOM.

What do you gain from denying and ignoring this? Why doesn't their safety and wellbeing matter to you?

What will your poor child do if they go to a restaurant or concert or movie and smell these things in the bathroom????? Pleazzzzzzzzz!

I have never been to a restaurant or movie theater and walked in on drug use or violence.

Concerts/music festivals, that could happen, but my kid would be an adult by the time that's an issue.

Now I'm wondering what's going on in the restaurants and movie theaters that you go to.

What do you do, man this thread all day long????

[Anonymous]

Just catching up with this thread. I'm a bit shocked. My daughter is at Westland MS and will go to BCC. Is this what she has to look forward to? She hasn't mentioned anything untoward happening at her middle school, thank goodness.


What about Walter Johnson and Whitman high schools? Are they any better? Wondering if it's worth moving clusters, since we were looking for a new house anyway...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Just catching up with this thread. I'm a bit shocked. My daughter is at Westland MS and will go to BCC. Is this what she has to look forward to? She hasn't mentioned anything untoward happening at her middle school, thank goodness.


What about Walter Johnson and Whitman high schools? Are they any better? Wondering if it's worth moving clusters, since we were looking for a new house anyway...

All MCPS high schools are dealing with this. There's no safe place.

It's also happening in No Va too. There was an overdose at an Arlington high school just today: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/student-found-unconscious-in-bathroom-at-wakefield-high-school

[Anonymous]

Speaking of Whitman, one of the higher profile drug overdoses happened to a Whitman student, so again, there's no school or cluster you can move to to avoid this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/04/23/after-whitman-students-fentanyl-overdose-family-hopes-awareness-will-prevent-similar-tragedy/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Whitman, one of the higher profile drug overdoses happened to a Whitman student, so again, there's no school or cluster you can move to to avoid this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/04/23/after-whitman-students-fentanyl-overdose-family-hopes-awareness-will-prevent-similar-tragedy/

In the wealthy schools, those incidences just get swept more under the rug. That's really the only difference. Rich kids can afford more and expensive drugs.

[Anonymous]

Just expel them and ruin their chances of college. Enough already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Whitman, one of the higher profile drug overdoses happened to a Whitman student, so again, there's no school or cluster you can move to to avoid this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/04/23/after-whitman-students-fentanyl-overdose-family-hopes-awareness-will-prevent-similar-tragedy/

In the wealthy schools, those incidences just get swept more under the rug. That's really the only difference. Rich kids can afford more and expensive drugs.

Finish your statement, "that are tainted with questionable, think fentanyl, substances that cause instantaneous death." Thank you to all who voted for open borders and all that entails. Thank you so very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just expel them and ruin their chances of college. Enough already.

+1 they can go to community college. Why do should they be able to ruin school for the rest of the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Whitman, one of the higher profile drug overdoses happened to a Whitman student, so again, there's no school or cluster you can move to to avoid this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/04/23/after-whitman-students-fentanyl-overdose-family-hopes-awareness-will-prevent-similar-tragedy/

In the wealthy schools, those incidences just get swept more under the rug. That's really the only difference. Rich kids can afford more and expensive drugs.

Finish your statement, "that are tainted with questionable, think fentanyl, substances that cause instantaneous death." Thank you to all who voted for open borders and all that entails. Thank you so very much.

I'm the PP.. That's a dumb statement. You think fentanyl is only coming from across the border? No, we make those in the good ol' USA ourselves, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Just catching up with this thread. I'm a bit shocked. My daughter is at Westland MS and will go to BCC. Is this what she has to look forward to? She hasn't mentioned anything untoward happening at her middle school, thank goodness.


What about Walter Johnson and Whitman high schools? Are they any better? Wondering if it's worth moving clusters, since we were looking for a new house anyway...

All MCPS high schools are dealing with this. There's no safe place.

It's also happening in No Va too. There was an overdose at an Arlington high school just today: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/student-found-unconscious-in-bathroom-at-wakefield-high-school

Thank you. But are there stats kept on the number of incidents in each school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we should leave MCPS alone, they are doing a great job of further degrading what was once the number one school system in the country. I say let it ride!

Yes! And today all MCPS administrators had an awesome get together and McKnight handed out logo water bottles to her besties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just expel them and ruin their chances of college. Enough already.

Their actions ruined their chances of college. They are accountable for their behaviors and the consequences attached to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of Whitman, one of the higher profile drug overdoses happened to a Whitman student, so again, there's no school or cluster you can move to to avoid this: https://bethesdamagazine.com/2022/04/23/after-whitman-students-fentanyl-overdose-family-hopes-awareness-will-prevent-similar-tragedy/

In the wealthy schools, those incidences just get swept more under the rug. That's really the only difference. Rich kids can afford more and expensive drugs.

This is a weird statement to make since the Whitman student died of a fentanyl overdose just like other kids throughout the county.

Also, expense doesn't really matter since unregulated drugs are being tainted with fentanyl and the kids don't know it when they're taking it. So this isn't an issue wealth is buying your way out of. If you're dabbling with illegal drugs of any kind, you're risking fentanyl exposure and overdosing.