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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no pleasing some people [/quote]

Right, this behavior should be celebrated because who cares who it impacts especially this weekend of all weeks.  Why should our kids feel safe going to school?   It’s ok they don’t feel safe as long as your kids get to behave in a hateful way.  [/quote]

I don’t understand what exactly you want MCPS to do. They cannot stop every hate speech incident just like they cannot control every hallway fight or drug deals in the bathrooms. 
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Yes, they can.  For the fights and drugs they can bring in more security and give consequences.   They can put cameras in classrooms and hallways.  Lots they can do.  They choose not to.

I want all kids to go to school feeling safe.  [/quote]

I’m a teacher and no way would I be ok with cameras in the classroom. Would you want to be watched and recorded every second of your work day? And what would cameras even do? Students scribble stuff on desks all the time. It is usually harmless stuff. The cameras will not have laser vision where they pick up tiny writing on desks. You still would not be able to prove who wrote the offensive comment [/quote]

Without having the camera pointed on that desk, you [b]still[/b] would greatly narrow the pool of suspects and interrogate suspects from an informed perspective with [b]camera surveillance[/b]. It increases your odds of finding the real culprit overall.[/quote][/quote]

Interrogate suspects? Do you hear yourself?

The problem with this approach is there would be a lot of profiling of boys of color, kids with special needs and others who look "suspicious" for whatever biased reason the teacher or administrator has. At our younger DC's elementary someone vandalized part of the classroom. The teachers went around to the kids with special needs first, then some boys who were not white next, then the boys who were less than perfectly behaved and as you put it interrogated them - without their parents mind you. They had each of them give a handwriting sample based on nothing other than they didn't like these kids. It was a witchhunt. It turned out the culprit was a normally well-behaved and sweet girl. They would have never suspected her but they sent out a school wide email at some point and the girl confessed. [/quote]

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