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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand that parents worry but I truly worry for the parents who worry enough to bring it here with this original post OP.  Wait till high school....you genuinely need to be able to go on about your day or you will be in constant shock by what you hear on a day to day basis.

signed cabin john and wootton parent [/quote]

Just because many who work for MCPS have accepted these kinds of things happening in high schools as normal doesn't mean it's right or something we as parents or students SHOULD accept as normal.[/quote]

NP. I don't work for MCPS, but PP is right. "These kinds of things" aren't new. What's new is how much schools communicate with parents about them, and that change is a net negative. My schools evacuated or had shelter in places pretty often growing up, my parents heard about it when I told them. It was a better system that let the people who can act (police and staff) act without worrying people who can't do anything (parents).[/quote]

In a world where smartphones exist, that world from the past that you dream of is no longer possible or realistic. Information cannot be contained and it travels at lightning speed thanks to text messaging and social media, whether you like it or not. So MCPS has to learn how to communicate in its present reality, not the past.

That attempt to cling to the past is why its comms come out like what was posted above, which just adds more confusion to the situation and not clarity.[/quote]

It's very possible for you as the parent to relax, though. That communication had every piece of information you needed to figure out what you needed to do (nothing). What more do you think you need?[/quote]

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