Enough is Enough

[Anonymous]

MCPS currently has teachers going through mandatory safety and security training, however, these incidents have happened very recently:

At Clarksburg, a security guard entered the boy's locker room to break-up a fight over a cell phone, then was jumped by three students. He was beat up pretty badly and dragged out of the locker room by the students.
At Sherwood, a substitute teacher was beat up last Monday.
Yesterday at Northwest, a student had an unloaded gun.
Last week, also at Sherwood, a student left bullets in a classroom. The school went on lockdown and was searched.

Funny, I am going to bet most of you haven't heard about a single one of these incidents.

I am sick and tired of MCPS not taking a stand when it comes to student security. No longer can they suspend students. It used to be 10 days for a fight, but students were missing too much "instructional time" so suspensions are frowned up. The county is terrified to say "no".

It is getting worse. It is going to take something major for there to be any changes made, and at this point, I don't know if THAT would even change anything.

The public deserves to know. Parents deserve to know about every single violent incident that happens within a public school building.

[Anonymous]

Were the students who jumped the security guard arrested??

[Anonymous]

Can’t forget the gun found yesterday at Springbrook!

[Anonymous]

Where are you getting this list?

[Anonymous]

source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:source?

Not sure about the others, but I can vouch for the issues at Sherwood. Police were at the HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were the students who jumped the security guard arrested??

Not sure. I think the security guard would need to press charges. But this brings up a good point - why are crimes IN the schools, treated the same as crimes committed OUTSIDE of the school? If there is a fight at a movie theater, or a library, the cops are called, people are arrested, but not in MCPS. The school "handles" it.

A former colleague of mine taught in PA. That is how they handled violence in schools there. I wonder why MCPS won't do the same (or maybe it is a state law?)

At my school (a W school) a month ago, a freshman was trying to get into the building through the locked doors. She was knocking and knocking but another student (20 years old) just sat on the floor and didn't let her in. Finally security came, let her in, and she said in passing "thanks a lot for letting me in" to the student on the floor. He got up, pinned her against the wall by her throat, then started punching her in the face and body, then once she fell to the floor, continued to kick her. She suffered serious injury. Her mom is pressing charges now, but when that happened, he was suspended for ONE DAY. He is an Edison student, so technically not even supposed to be here each day, but his girlfriend still goes here, so the school lets him hang around. Now, he is told he can't be inside the building, but he is out front, right in front of the doors each day during lunch, making out with his girlfriend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:source?

Teachers at the schools

[Anonymous]

My guess is that none of the incidents will even be represented on the Schools At A Glance info. MCPS will just sweep it all under the rug and pretend nothing happened.

Then, send out a useless video.

Business as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were the students who jumped the security guard arrested??

Not sure. I think the security guard would need to press charges. But this brings up a good point - why are crimes IN the schools, treated the same as crimes committed OUTSIDE of the school? If there is a fight at a movie theater, or a library, the cops are called, people are arrested, but not in MCPS. The school "handles" it.

A former colleague of mine taught in PA. That is how they handled violence in schools there. I wonder why MCPS won't do the same (or maybe it is a state law?)

At my school (a W school) a month ago, a freshman was trying to get into the building through the locked doors. She was knocking and knocking but another student (20 years old) just sat on the floor and didn't let her in. Finally security came, let her in, and she said in passing "thanks a lot for letting me in" to the student on the floor. He got up, pinned her against the wall by her throat, then started punching her in the face and body, then once she fell to the floor, continued to kick her. She suffered serious injury. Her mom is pressing charges now, but when that happened, he was suspended for ONE DAY. He is an Edison student, so technically not even supposed to be here each day, but his girlfriend still goes here, so the school lets him hang around. Now, he is told he can't be inside the building, but he is out front, right in front of the doors each day during lunch, making out with his girlfriend.

Because MCPS cares more about how thing ‘look’ and about the MCPS reputation than about keeping kids safe. This gets proven over and over and over.

[Anonymous]

We have a kid at our ES (yes, ES!) who has assaulted several students. Not one single day of suspension. Not one.

I have already said that if he comes after my kid, I am calling the police. Do not trust MCPS to handle it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:source?

Not sure about the others, but I can vouch for the issues at Sherwood. Police were at the HS.

same here - My daughter's friend shared the information about Sherwood.

And the CHS principal has been very transparent with incidents, as I have a friend who works there.

[Anonymous]

Yet ...Pat O'Neil was reelected to BOE...LOL! Are the people of this county deserving of MCPS?

People need to start suing MCPS and start calling the press and the police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS currently has teachers going through mandatory safety and security training, however, these incidents have happened very recently:

At Clarksburg, a security guard entered the boy's locker room to break-up a fight over a cell phone, then was jumped by three students. He was beat up pretty badly and dragged out of the locker room by the students.
At Sherwood, a substitute teacher was beat up last Monday.
Yesterday at Northwest, a student had an unloaded gun.
Last week, also at Sherwood, a student left bullets in a classroom. The school went on lockdown and was searched.

Funny, I am going to bet most of you haven't heard about a single one of these incidents.

I am sick and tired of MCPS not taking a stand when it comes to student security. No longer can they suspend students. It used to be 10 days for a fight, but students were missing too much "instructional time" so suspensions are frowned up. The county is terrified to say "no".

It is getting worse. It is going to take something major for there to be any changes made, and at this point, I don't know if THAT would even change anything.

The public deserves to know. Parents deserve to know about every single violent incident that happens within a public school building.

OP, how do you know all of these things happened? Just curious. Also, did any of the victims call the cops? Nothing, not even MCPS, can stop a victim from calling the cops.

[Anonymous]

OP - create different threads with the individual incidents that you have written here and ask DCUM to fill in the details.