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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking of the B-CC PTA list serv, this topic has been pretty silent on the board other than the passing along of the lockdown itself. In the past, there would be plenty of discussion but no longer. It certainly adds to a further disconnect to the school, even though I have never posted there. Frequently, I shared many of the same feelings of others who did post. I miss the PTA President from 2022-2023 school year.[/quote]

It’s clear the current BCC PTSA President has a hands-off approach to safety and security which is unfortunately. I saw her give comments to a local media outlet where she held MCPS blameless and said [b]she didn’t know what people expected the school to do about students fighting in a nearby park…[/b]..[/quote]

But that's police's role, is it not? [b]Schools have barely enough security staff to manage things in the buildings[/b], let alone in neighborhood parks.[/quote]

MCPS not staffing appropriately to ensure there's enough security staff to intercept kids like the ones who left the building to fight and shoot at each other is precisely the kind of thing we should be laying at the feet of MCPS. Security staffing sizes is completely within the discretion and choice of MCPS.

If MCPS had a strong emphasis on security, kids wouldn't be able to get away with as much as they do. Holding the school system blameless is turning a blind eye that the system has to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its students and staff.[/quote]

I don’t believe there is any mechanism that prevents a kid from walking out during the school day. I had pick up my kid early the other day and we all (family) discussed the merits of this.[/quote]

They can tell a child to go back to class, redirect them but they want to leave, especially in HS no adult can [b]legally[/b] stop them.[/quote]

That's not true.

LEGALLY, Maryland law REQUIRES minors under the age of 18 to be in school. It is COMPULSORY, not optional: https://www.peoples-law.org/compulsory-school-attendance#:~:text=Maryland%20law%20requires%20all%20children,in%20Maryland%2C%20to%20attend%20school.

LEGALLY, MCPS and the State of Maryland could go after parents much harder than they do for truancy and for their kids missing school.

In practice, they don't, because they because taking a hard-line approach to attendance/truancy breaks relationship. They also don't want the optics of what it would take to forcibly hold and restrain children to be in school.

But let's be clear: LEGALLY, MCPS has the authority to ensure kids remain in school when they are supposed to be in school.

Hence why some campuses are designated "closed campuses" for lunch. The idea behind a closed campus is that kids are NOT to leave the building. If MCPS could not ensure kids did not leave the building, why would they differentiate between schools that have an open or closed lunch policy?[/quote]

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