The state of MCPS is atrocious

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Anonymous wrote:I work in a Title One elementary school in MCPS. Our behaviors are off the charts this year. I honestly don't know how our admin continues to come to work each day. They constantly have kids in their offices. Even our staff development teacher, reading specialist, math coach AND both counselors are constantly with kids displaying behavior issues or eloping class. Admin can't suspend kids for running the halls, even in elementary school. I feel bad for our core team above because they can't do their actual jobs as they basically play security all day. I have some difficult kids but at least I can close my classroom door and ignore the chaos that's unfolding in rooms across the school.
Parents need to wake up and start parenting their kids rather than ignoring them on their phones or trying to be their friend. I applaud all of you who are trying your best to do right by your kids. Raise hell with the county council and board of ed. Your neighborhood school's principal can't do anything to make the changes we need to see.

You all need to work with the parents and let them know what's going on and have parents come in and volunteer and help vs. complaining. This isn't something new. Even before covid, may schools were closed to parents and yet, the teachers and admin complained bitterly about the parents. We cannot help if we don't know what's going on. Kids behave differently so they may be behaving at home and not school so if that's the situation it's on the teachers to communicate. We'd email the teachers and rarely get a response back.

Please point out where I said we were NOT calling parents on a daily basis about their child's behaviors? We do call and we either get sent to voicemail or cussed out and called racist. Trust me, teachers are trying everything under the sun.

Parents who curse out school staff and admin should suffer repercussions. The government, which funds and runs MCPS, needs to start holding people accountable for this stuff.

Repercussions? Like taking away the recess they don’t get? What exactly do you think MCPS can do to parents who aren’t breaking a law?

Documentation on the parent's behavior would be a start. And then don't be afraid to call the police. Parents who come shouting and hollering can and do get charged for disorderly conduct and aggressive encounters with school staff.

It just happened in Florida over a father who got aggressive with a bus aide: https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/florida-dad-attacks-school-worker-after-son-banned-from-riding-from-bus/

Document, call the police, hold the aggressive, violent parents accountable.

Yes, hitting school staff should be reported. Attempting to report missed phone calls and raised voices is a waste of everyone’s time.

Look at the other examples I posted as well. Parents who yelled and cursed also got police called on them.

Read them again— verbal threats. I strongly suspect they were told to leave as well. And the police certainly isn’t going to respond to a complaint about someone yelling over the phone.

Yes, obviously in-person is what I'm referencing for disorderly conduct. But that applies to the poster who said the mom showed up at the school "enraged" and cursing at them cause her daughter was in the ER. That sounds like a disorderly conduct charge to me.

If that’s all she did, then it isn’t disorderly conduct. That’s more than just being “mean.”

Definitely call the police and report back!

Ever sense they removed the SROs it's like MCPD is purposefully neglecting to enforce laws at our schools.

It's like ever since they removed t he SROs your brain cells died.

Nah, I think MCPD is being spiteful to retaliate unfortunately this puts our kids at risk.

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Anonymous wrote:Complain all you want

However at least mcps raises less Maga morons than homeschool low bar or religious schools

Yes we have a public education problem it’s called the cult of Maga morons moms of liberty Bethany Mandel utterly stupid

We don't have a MAGA problem. We have a gangsta problem

Yes, there a ton of these imaginary gang incidents at our schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Complain all you want

However at least mcps raises less Maga morons than homeschool low bar or religious schools

Yes we have a public education problem it’s called the cult of Maga morons moms of liberty Bethany Mandel utterly stupid

MAGA isn't the issue. Parents and adults in the community are.

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My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

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Anonymous wrote:My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

Things have greatly declined over the past 10 years... and the past two have been terrible. Great your kids had a good experience.

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MCPS isn't responsible for all the world's problems. MCPS didn't invent COVID and cell phones and social media and guns and fentanyl and [whichever sides of the culture wars you don't like].

If students are bringing these problems into school, all of society already failed.

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Anonymous wrote:My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

Things have greatly declined over the past 10 years... and the past two have been terrible. Great your kids had a good experience.

Nah. It's been in decline for the last 100 years!

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Anonymous wrote:My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

Things have greatly declined over the past 10 years... and the past two have been terrible. Great your kids had a good experience.

Nah. It's been in decline for the last 100 years!

Very true but the last ten have been the worst.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS isn't responsible for all the world's problems. MCPS didn't invent COVID and cell phones and social media and guns and fentanyl and [whichever sides of the culture wars you don't like].

If students are bringing these problems into school, all of society already failed.

It’s a combination of society, parents, and the schools but mcps focus’s on the wrong things and isn’t making our kids education and safety a priority while at school.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS isn't responsible for all the world's problems. MCPS didn't invent COVID and cell phones and social media and guns and fentanyl and [whichever sides of the culture wars you don't like].

If students are bringing these problems into school, all of society already failed.

Then why is McKnight so focused on these larger issues instead of staying in her lane?

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS isn't responsible for all the world's problems. MCPS didn't invent COVID and cell phones and social media and guns and fentanyl and [whichever sides of the culture wars you don't like].

If students are bringing these problems into school, all of society already failed.

Then why is McKnight so focused on these larger issues instead of staying in her lane?

She is focused on the wrong needs. She has her pet projects. In two years she’s done nothing to fix safety, behavior or academics.

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Anonymous wrote:My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

Things have greatly declined over the past 10 years... and the past two have been terrible. Great your kids had a good experience.

Weird they're so much better now than when I was MCPS 30 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS isn't responsible for all the world's problems. MCPS didn't invent COVID and cell phones and social media and guns and fentanyl and [whichever sides of the culture wars you don't like].

If students are bringing these problems into school, all of society already failed.

Then why is McKnight so focused on these larger issues instead of staying in her lane?

She is focused on the wrong needs. She has her pet projects. In two years she’s done nothing to fix safety, behavior or academics.

The safety and behavior issues seem debatable. Sure, I hear the same people on DCUM complain but my kids and their teachers never mention these problems. Personally, I'd prefer she focus on academics than address more imaginary problems.

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Anonymous wrote:My two kids graduated from MCPS and have both had very a great experience.

Things have greatly declined over the past 10 years... and the past two have been terrible. Great your kids had a good experience.

Weird they're so much better now than when I was MCPS 30 years ago.

Weird, I think it’s much worse than when I went.

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There are also school principals and teachers that suck and should be even be teaching. But there are not enough teachers, so the ones that suck, continue so they can get their pensions. My kid had a biology teacher knit every day. But the end of the school year, she made a king size blanket. The watched a lot of biology videos.