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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day, the county has to ask if the safety of students attending public schools is important -their decision to remove the HS SROs is telling.  We have armed guards at government buildings and our politicians have security.  Why are we paying ridiculously high taxes when the county can barely protect our kids. Ask the principals in private what they think of all this. [/quote]

Parents have spoken. Huge enrollment decline in MCPS: https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/opinion/opinion-enrollment-decline-should-be-a-wakeup-call-for-mcps/[/quote]

The decline is due to Covid and Covid safety.  [/quote]

And those numbers will continue to decline if the county can't get their priorities straight. The incidents these past couple of months is telling me that they are not doing a good job protecting our kids. The expectation should be high for this one. Instead they're using our kids as guinea pigs so they can say "oh look at how progressive MOntgomery County is- we got rid of police in schools!"  [/quote]

Your idea of safety and others idea of safety are very different, which is why you had people leave and some go to virtual.  Some families are not happy with how MCPS is handling covid with the lack of mandatory testing, no distancing, and no quarantine and other basic precautions.  People aren't leaving because of these incidents.  We aren't in a hurry to return due to covid.  The few times I've been to our home school this year they were not enforcing proper masking, no social distancing (and I blame parents as I had several kids come up and hug me and my child), etc.  And, MCPS will not even state something as simple as they plan to continue masking for the rest of the year.  We'll probably return next year when things hopefully will be better but we are in no hurry due to covid, MCPS and other families choices to place our family at high risk.  [/quote]

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