MCPS teachers--what kind of abuse from students goes on in your building?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't this all happening because the Board of Ed shut down the school for kids with behavioral problems? Twain or RICA I think it was called?

Alt isn't for ED kids. The ED students are sent (if schools are successful in getting them in) to an ED program housed either in their own schools or in another school.

Alt Programs is for level 2 and 3 kids who chronically misbehave or who have "popped" and committed a violent act (a bad fight, for example).

RICA is still in existence, but it's a state and local day and residential program. Twain closed.

twain needs to reopen

Twain was a legit threat to address bad behavior. If you were asked “Do you want to go to Twain?!!” you would straighten up immediately.

A few years ago a middle schooler committed suicide in a staff bathroom when he was told that he had to leave the school. I think it was at Frost. Twain or any other program should never be promoted as a punishment for throw away kids.

[Anonymous]

The union does not care about your contract. They will take your lunch, they will take your planning,. They will make you stay late. You have a problem take it up with you administrator. You squeal- union pretends like you never brought it up. Admin retaliates. You're unemployed. End of story and cycle repeats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this all happening because the Board of Ed shut down the school for kids with behavioral problems? Twain or RICA I think it was called?

Alt isn't for ED kids. The ED students are sent (if schools are successful in getting them in) to an ED program housed either in their own schools or in another school.

Alt Programs is for level 2 and 3 kids who chronically misbehave or who have "popped" and committed a violent act (a bad fight, for example).

RICA is still in existence, but it's a state and local day and residential program. Twain closed.

twain needs to reopen

Twain was a legit threat to address bad behavior. If you were asked “Do you want to go to Twain?!!” you would straighten up immediately.

A few years ago a middle schooler committed suicide in a staff bathroom when he was told that he had to leave the school. I think it was at Frost. Twain or any other program should never be promoted as a punishment for throw away kids.

Agree, but what’s your suggestion?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HS:
Students come to school high as a kite, around 1:00 in the afternoon. Nothing is done.
Students have parent notes "please excuse so-and-so for being late today," no reason and students have 20+ of them per quarter with no consequences.
Parent demands to know why I "gave so-and-so a B" when they worked so hard. I explain that so-and-so earned a B, parent complains to AP and P and I am told to change the grade.
ES - student throwing chairs, scissors, staplers, books, even a desk once, multiple times a week (well, 3 times in 2 weeks). We evacuate the classroom, kids are afraid, I am afraid, but parents say we have to be nicer to their child (denile!) and administrator says we need to collect more data.

I could go on and on. There are no consequences for anything at schools right now. The students are in charge, the Administrators have to backbone and central office is a joke. Oh, and BTW, don't complain to much, it you will find yourself involuntarily transferred.

What a circus public education has become.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HS:
Students come to school high as a kite, around 1:00 in the afternoon. Nothing is done.
Students have parent notes "please excuse so-and-so for being late today," no reason and students have 20+ of them per quarter with no consequences.
Parent demands to know why I "gave so-and-so a B" when they worked so hard. I explain that so-and-so earned a B, parent complains to AP and P and I am told to change the grade.
ES - student throwing chairs, scissors, staplers, books, even a desk once, multiple times a week (well, 3 times in 2 weeks). We evacuate the classroom, kids are afraid, I am afraid, but parents say we have to be nicer to their child (denile!) and administrator says we need to collect more data.

I could go on and on. There are no consequences for anything at schools right now. The students are in charge, the Administrators have to backbone and central office is a joke. Oh, and BTW, don't complain to much, it you will find yourself involuntarily transferred.

This happens a lot in the private where I teach. I used to think this was just a private school thing, but no, it seems to be a generational thing.

[Anonymous]

Putting something in the Teacher's coffee.

I never did hear what it was, but the teacher was off sick the next day.

[Anonymous]

This year in my elementary school -

*Several teachers kicked and/or punched by students.
*Students getting up and walking out of class all day, every day. Refuse to go to office when principal finds the student. Admin can't put hands on the kids and they know it so they just roam the halls and barge in on other classrooms. Parents refuse to take phone calls from the school.
*Fights in the lunch room and playground several times a week.
*Administrators punched, kicked and spit on.

I'm so shocked parents of well-behaved students aren't calling and complaining. We aren't even a Title 1 school.

[Anonymous]

I just quit.

resigned with prejudice after 20+ years in the system

We are dealing with extreme cases now - high anxiety ("Jo Jo can't have anything lower than an A.") and no control over discipline. Many of the disciplinary measures are a joke. One of my friends in MS said she has to take three steps (as part of restorative justice) before contacting the parent!

WHAT???

I'm done. I am never looking back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just quit.

resigned with prejudice after 20+ years in the system

We are dealing with extreme cases now - high anxiety ("Jo Jo can't have anything lower than an A.") and no control over discipline. Many of the disciplinary measures are a joke. One of my friends in MS said she has to take three steps (as part of restorative justice) before contacting the parent!

WHAT???

I'm done. I am never looking back.

You are my hero. I wish I could but I'm a single parent and need the insurance. I don't know how to transfer my experiences as an administrator/teacher to private industry. If I did I'd be OUT!

[Anonymous]

I feel like it is getting to the point where every school needs a semi-ED room for the "lighter" ED cases (e.g. frequently disruptive but not violent). So that they are easier to move... we have more each year

[Anonymous]

In our ES, more than one student bites/attacks/ scratches/launches at teachers.
Nothing is happening beyond having meetings and giving them restructured daily schedules. Nothing is being done about the violence and disruption of classroom instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year in my elementary school -

*Several teachers kicked and/or punched by students.
*Students getting up and walking out of class all day, every day. Refuse to go to office when principal finds the student. Admin can't put hands on the kids and they know it so they just roam the halls and barge in on other classrooms. Parents refuse to take phone calls from the school.
*Fights in the lunch room and playground several times a week.
*Administrators punched, kicked and spit on.

I'm so shocked parents of well-behaved students aren't calling and complaining. We aren't even a Title 1 school.

Wow, this is awful.
What part of MoCo are you in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just quit.

resigned with prejudice after 20+ years in the system

We are dealing with extreme cases now - high anxiety ("Jo Jo can't have anything lower than an A.") and no control over discipline. Many of the disciplinary measures are a joke. One of my friends in MS said she has to take three steps (as part of restorative justice) before contacting the parent!

WHAT???

I'm done. I am never looking back.

I really hope that you are the poster I think you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This year in my elementary school -

*Several teachers kicked and/or punched by students.
*Students getting up and walking out of class all day, every day. Refuse to go to office when principal finds the student. Admin can't put hands on the kids and they know it so they just roam the halls and barge in on other classrooms. Parents refuse to take phone calls from the school.
*Fights in the lunch room and playground several times a week.
*Administrators punched, kicked and spit on.

I'm so shocked parents of well-behaved students aren't calling and complaining. We aren't even a Title 1 school.

Wow, this is awful.
What part of MoCo are you in?

I'm in the Gaithersburg/Germantown area.

[Anonymous]

In my middle school there are certain ED students that I feel should never be left alone at any point during the day and need a full time para. It just seems that MCPS isn’t serious about their needs. The goal is to just maintain them from disrupting the rest of the school and then pass them on to high school. Honestly, I can’t argue with that since we don’t have enough staffing to do more.