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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having the kid go to therapy or talk about their feelings with an adult all day as part of a restorative approach is much more of a consequence than suspending.  Suspensions are just days off for them with no consequence.   Unless the kid is a true psychopath or has extremely low intellectual capacity,  they can really benefit from therapy and talking about their problems.  Unfortunately, the admin has to really embrace the process and put in the time to build that relationship.   It takes really compassionate and committed admin.[/quote]

Public schools don’t have the funding and it is not their responsibility for kids to have therapy. That falls on the parents, which it should. [/quote]

Do you know how hard it is to find child therapists who are accessible to low or even moderate income families?  And that’s if the family believes in therapy and trusts the therapist.  There are huge structural barriers to families getting their child therapy.  Just getting the child to and from appointments is a challenge for anyone who works full time.  The schools can’t just give up on these kids.  I don’t know what the answer is, and there are problems with MCPS’s current policies and how they are implemented.  But just giving up on small kids, calling them “bad” and kicking them out is NOT an acceptable answer.[/quote]

Once again, it is not the school's job to parent children and I certainly don't want my taxes to go towards therapy for kids when schools are literally falling apart and the teacher/student ratio is too high.

You know what is free to the poor?  Condoms and birth control.  Even abortions are free.  Putting kids up for adoption is free too.  Abandoning a child at a police station, fire house, or hospital is too.  No questions asked.

If you are going to have a baby, be ready to raise it.  If you going to pop out 5, you better be able to afford them all too.

Once again, the school's job is to educate children and they can barely do that at this point.  If you feel so strongly about this, I would suggest reaching out to social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists and ask if they can donate their time to work with kids in the school for free.  Maybe donate half of your paycheck on this.  Ask the public if they would be okay with raising taxes again to support it.  Go at it.  See how it goes.  [/quote]

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