Petition: Make MCPS campuses safer
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Anonymous
| Whoever started the petition, is there plan to present the petition to the BOE or at a future County meeting? |
Anonymous
| Less than 500 signatures still |
Anonymous
| Anyone have an update about where thing stand with this petition? Sorry to parents who are having to work so hard to get mcps to implement changes. |
Anonymous
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What's the cost of one metal detector?
DCPS high schools have them. |
Anonymous
| Sorry to the teachers that were forced out of the profession because admin wanted to fire teachers who were not ok with violence in the classroom. |
Anonymous
Metal detectors will not fix the leadership, staffing and culture problems which are at the root of MCPS's security and safety failures. |
Anonymous
Can you elaborate on this last part? |
Anonymous
I personally don’t think they are very useful. More useful would be additional security in the hallways and bathrooms and meaningful removal of disruptive kids including putting kids who are repeatedly disruptive and violent into a virtual academy where they can’t hurt people. |
Anonymous
I’m not that poster but one thing people have often pointed out is that a lot of the kids with the worst violence problems are kids who were moved from another school due to violence. They don’t expel kids or give them meaningful support to turn their lives around — they just move them to another school. I’m actually curious what they do in other school districts for the serious disciplinary probkems. |
Anonymous
| Didn't the petition have Rep Raskin's name on it? What are the petition organizers planning to do with the petition? School system is broke paying off people. |
Anonymous
| And metal detectors are optical theatre that won't stop violence in our schools (ghost guns, propping doors open because its too hot or too cold, kids letting friends in other doors, etc), and will just take away money that could have been used for asbestos removal, reducing overcrowding, fixing leaky/moldy buildings, replacing HVAC, etc if Capital Improvements, or worse, away from more teachers, counselors, etc. |
Anonymous
Has it ever been tried to know if it is an optical theater? |
Anonymous
| idiots. How is Jamie Raskin the decision for a local school district? Sign the petition and confirm your idiocy. |
Anonymous
He is a taxpayer in MoCo and has probably heard enough to care to help. |
Anonymous
Nah, you are one idiot though |