another SAFETY meeting

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

Then why did Jones say they could come this school year? Good luck with taxpayers and that $$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doi6ng evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

And yet students and staff are required to attend school/work everyday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

The mcps security chief said that school foundations funding detectors is something that could be discussed. Hopefully bcc foundation follows up on this.

Foundations? You have got to be FK?! No he and the white guys at Central should take it out of their own funds.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Very disappointing meeting. Too many “we are looking into” responses from panelists, or telling parents it’s on us to fix. Getting a consultant or looking into an issue is not acceptable at this point after several years of problems.

So what's next parents?

This will get faded until next time. Council member Friedson has said he has done this type of meeting before. That is not good! Unless parents now take drastic measures, what are those panelists going to do??

Parents have to keep the pressure on. MCPS is just hoping this all blows over again.

Yes and I would advise parents engaging boe. Four members were there last night including Julie yang. They need to hear from people.

Really? hear from people? Hasn't enough been heard by now? Fking do something now!

[Anonymous]

Students have been saying, they said there would be larger presence of police, where are they? They were around the days after the lockdowns but where are they now? And ou expect students to go to school and learn, take assessments and do well when what's on their minds is this?

[Anonymous]

Our society has failed this gen and the next and so on. Trauma gets passed down if people didn't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

Curious if anyone has checked DCPS or PgPS budget for how much these cost. I’m really not convinced the value is there, considering both the financial cost and the cost in student time (waking up substantially earlier to get thru metal detectors). But they could put a lot of SROs back in school for that money. From my perspective, bringing in weapons is a relatively rare occurrence (or at least it’s rare that the weapons are used in the school)—but fist fights and similar violence is a very common occurrence. If they could get more SROs and security officers in the schools — like at least one in every HS hallway, they could at least reroute that violence outside the school buildings so that kids and teachers who want to engage in education can do so.
That’s my two cents as a parent with 15 years at McPS and another 4 to go.

[Anonymous]

9:37, DC (Jackson Reed HS) students enter building a little after 8am and instruction starts after 9am. They end school day around 3:30pm and there's still time for students to engage in sports (gasp!). Why does MCPS have things not worked out, it can be done.

[Anonymous]

09:41 get that bell start times petition around, get it to BOE ASAP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9:37, DC (Jackson Reed HS) students enter building a little after 8am and instruction starts after 9am. They end school day around 3:30pm and there's still time for students to engage in sports (gasp!). Why does MCPS have things not worked out, it can be done.

Oh the horror of some clinging on to 1990s MCPS that MCPS would be compared to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

Then why did Jones say they could come this school year? Good luck with taxpayers and that $$$

You weren't listening closely and are conflating two different things.

Marcus said VAPE detectors are being rolled out this school year, not metal/weapons detectors. The money for the VAPE detectors came from a settlement with vaping JUUL.

He very clearly said they are exploring and CONSIDERING weapons detectors but are a long ways off from implementing and would not commit to any sort of timeline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

The mcps security chief said that school foundations funding detectors is something that could be discussed. Hopefully bcc foundation follows up on this.

Foundations? You have got to be FK?! No he and the white guys at Central should take it out of their own funds.

It would be wildly inappropriate and potentially violate BOE rules for a foundation to pay for infrastructure that should be coming out of the school system's budget. It also would exacerbate equity issues if the MCPS high schools that are wealthy enough to have foundations, funded weapons detectors in their high schools while the rest of the MCPS high schools were left to fend for themselves in the ghetto....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any mention of detectors in schools?

Yes. Peter Moran said they would cost $100 million to just implement in high schools. Marcus said they’re doing evaluations and exploration with vendors but won’t be coming anytime soon.

Curious if anyone has checked DCPS or PgPS budget for how much these cost. I’m really not convinced the value is there, considering both the financial cost and the cost in student time (waking up substantially earlier to get thru metal detectors). But they could put a lot of SROs back in school for that money. From my perspective, bringing in weapons is a relatively rare occurrence (or at least it’s rare that the weapons are used in the school)—but fist fights and similar violence is a very common occurrence. If they could get more SROs and security officers in the schools — like at least one in every HS hallway, they could at least reroute that violence outside the school buildings so that kids and teachers who want to engage in education can do so.
That’s my two cents as a parent with 15 years at McPS and another 4 to go.

In case you haven't heard, MCPD has a serious staffing shortage that is only predicted to get worse. I suggest the "Bring Back SROs" crowd shift their thinking because it is simply not possible to go back to that with current and future staffing levels in the police department.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:9:37, DC (Jackson Reed HS) students enter building a little after 8am and instruction starts after 9am. They end school day around 3:30pm and there's still time for students to engage in sports (gasp!). Why does MCPS have things not worked out, it can be done.

You clearly have not paid attention to the Bell Times debate and fight with you saying what you're saying here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:9:37, DC (Jackson Reed HS) students enter building a little after 8am and instruction starts after 9am. They end school day around 3:30pm and there's still time for students to engage in sports (gasp!). Why does MCPS have things not worked out, it can be done.

You clearly have not paid attention to the Bell Times debate and fight with you saying what you're saying here.

Clearly have paid attention. Moving HS start time 20 minutes to start after 8am is very much doable. You need to think which you are not doing.