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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.[/quote]

Yeap, I was going to write something long but the above is pretty much the issue.

Every school system kind of does it but MCPS always had a reputation of caring about it's numbers.  More so in the past under a previous superintendent who loved to brag about the numbers when MCPS was a higher performing school district.  Like you'd see them go to great lengths in making sure that their numbers don't change or drop too much.

Numbers are helpful where it helps identify trends or any potential problem areas.

But when people loses sight of things and chooses to only focus on numbers, the quality of things go downhill too.[/quote]

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