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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][Blair G. Ewing Center] serves students in grades 9-12, who are not achieving at their potential for a wide variety of reasons, usually including behavior and/or attendance problems, as well as students who have been involved in a serious disciplinary action that warranted a recommendation for expulsion," InfoMontgomery.com states.[/quote]
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This is the school for troubled kids. If you read the article it says "Staff asked the student to agree to a "self-search," which is part of school protocol."

While a gun at any school is not a good thing, at least this student had already been identified as needing a different setting besides a regular high school.[/quote]

Is it the best idea to put all of the troubled kids in the same school, though?[/quote]

They have three locations: Germantown, Rockville, and Silver Spring. What's the alternative? These kids already couldn't hack it in a mainstream high school and are tiptoeing the edge of the court system and juvenile detention (since the stuff that will get you expelled from an MCPS school or in serious trouble for attendance generally also rises to the level of getting arrested, or ending up in truancy court, even if it isn't always pursued). They'd be concentrated there anyway. What's the other choice?[/quote]
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https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/01239.pdf 
The schools-at-a-glance report (2019-20?) shows 111 students with 34.4 professional staff and 22.6 support staff. I don't know how that is spread over different locations, but we are talking about a lot of adults providing support to a small number of very needy students who can't be served in a normal school setting anymore.

Other students needing Social Emotional Special Education Services are still supported in various schools. 
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/special-education/programs-services/behavior-and-emotional-support.aspx

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