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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meanwhile last year after a bomb threat was called in and MCPD showed up in [b]tactical gear with guns[/b], MCPS and MCPD got flak for traumatizing the kids with the response. Yet you are advocating MCPS have police show up for every fight in HS.[/quote]

DP. Did anyone say anything about showing up for every fight in tactical gear and long guns? When is MCPS going to pay those students and staff for the trauma they caused? When??[/quote]

They aren’t because the response wasn’t necessarily inappropriate.  The point was to show why MCPS would want to determine when to call in police and/or have a close working relationship with the police.  Because how the police operate vs what you at parents would want to occur are not necessarily one and the same.

For example if students engage in a fight, when it’s determined who instigated the fight or threw the first push there could be grounds for assault which police could then arrest a student for.  They may decide not to, but they also may decide to do so. Whereas the school system is working from the perspective that while kids need discipline and consequences they also can learn from their conflict and learn to have more appropriate response.[/quote]

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