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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“During transition periods and more unstructured times, like before school, after school and lunch periods, schools may limit access to designated restrooms.”

So, at the impacted secondary schools, when do kids use the bathroom? During class only? Or wait during lunch for the only open restroom? Will teachers always allow kids to use the bathroom during class? [/quote]

It would help if you found a new hobby. Obsessing about bathrooms seems unhealthy.[/quote]

Okay, boymom[/quote]

FTR, I am a boymom and the bathroom situation infuriates me.  My son avoids going to the bathroom also and it’s ridiculous. [/quote]

School bathrooms were sketchy when I was in school 30 years ago, and I avoided them. I guess nothing really changes.[/quote]

Kids were overdosing and dying or getting shot in the bathrooms 30 years ago?

Kind of hard to believe since[b] Magruder was the first-ever school shooting in MCPS history[/b]....[/quote]

It's good to know that a rare thing then.[/quote]

How many bathroom shootings will it take for you to feel MCPS should alter its security strategy and posture with regard to bathrooms? 10 dead kids? 20? How much collateral damage are you ok with so you can preserve the status quo and why are their lives worth that to you?[/quote]

A better question might be how many school shootings do there have to be until common Sense gun legislation is enacted. This isn't about bathrooms or MCPS. Anyone who says otherwise is a moron.[/quote]

If the previous poster is concerned about school shootings like they claim, then gun control legislation makes perfect sense to but I have the impression they have a different political agenda. [/quote]

Guns in bathroom are rare in MCPS.  But we know that drugs are ubiquitous.

The drug problem IN MCPS schools is well-documented and dangerous.

I want SROs back to help manage the drug problem.  [/quote]

If the police are unable to enforce the laws, it's unlikely SROs will do any better.  It's not like they were effective at Parkland or Uvalde.[/quote]

Agree this is a policing issue, that needs to be addressed. We need public hearings to establish why the police aren't enforcing our laws first.[/quote]

I'm not saying the police are blameless here, but it is my understanding [b]MCPS is not even referring these incidents to the police in the first place. So we can't blame MCPD for cases and incidents that aren't brought to their attention.[/b]

I HOPE MCPS is alerting MCPD to instances where they catch dealers distributing in school, but according to many students, many administrators turn a blind eye to that as well.[/quote]

THIS

It reflects poorly on a school when the police are called, so MCPS leans heavily on NOT involving the police.  How can MCPD do anything when MCPS isn’t involving the police.  [/quote]

So now you want MCPS calling the police because kids are vaping in bathrooms?? Yeah that’ll go over well with McPs, the county council, and state as a good use of the police time. Not to mention, can’t wait to see the uproar when some kid gets caught and mommy and daddy are all up in arms worried about this small thing being in their permanent record and how that will look for colleges.  Everything sounds like a great punishment right up until it’s your kid staring down the consequences.[/quote]

I think tiering is a good strategy, and something MCPS does often with regard to student discipline. It could look something like this:

Tier 1: Nicotine, marijuana

First Offense: No police involved, referred to MCPS administrators and disciplinary measures such as detention or RJ
Second Offense: No police involved, but now escalated to in-school suspension
Third Offense: Out of school suspension
Fourth Offense: Police referral

Tier 2: Opioids, heroin, cocaine, crack

First Offense: EITHER no police involved but INTENSE and HANDS-ON MCPS supervisor, including counseling, recovery and close monitoring, or refer to police

With marijuana and nicotine, you can be more forgiving since it's less likely to be life or death. In that category of drugs, only the undeterred repeat offenders should be handed over to law enforcement. For opioids and other hard drugs, you've got to either envelope the student with comprehensive, intensive responses and resources, or hand it over to the county government agencies and law enforcement to deal with if the school district is ill-equipped to solve the problem.[/quote]

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