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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm glad this is getting a little bit of attention (but still not enough).

My kids are young adults and teens now, but when they were in different MCPS elementary schools, they each had to deal with a physically dangerous child.

This issue is not new. It's the weakness of public schools, who have a mandate to accept all resident children in their catchment area.

What needs to change is how rapidly school staff can ask for a different placement. For this to happen, the system needs MORE SEATS in special programs. There aren't enough!

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Me again. To echo the poster above my other post, the violence perpetrated in high schools is occasionally severe. There are serious cases of sexual and physical assaults reported every years in MCPS high schools, and more rarely, in the lower schools. My kids have never been attacked, and have never witnessed a serious attack, but there have been a few in both the high schools they attended.

This is NOT about a permissive parenting structure, people! It's the Bermuda triangle of publics being forced to accept all kids, even those with psychiatric disorders, the system not having enough money to place them out of the mainstream, and a lack of transparency set up to protect minor children, but which in reality protects perpetrators over victims.

Violent high schoolers face expulsion from their home school, and after a stint in the only program for violent kids in MCPS, which does not have enough seats to keep them there until they graduate, they are sent back to another high school, where some of them repeat their crimes. This is what allegedly happened at my teen's high school last year: the Principal and the security guard were both assaulted by a kid with that history.

I know there's a bedrock principle of not abandoning kids before they graduate, because if they don't even have a high school degree, they are much more likely to harden into lifelong criminals, which is not a desirable outcome for the community... but this comes at the cost of markedly increasing security risks for school staff and students.

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