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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Administrator here who has gone to bat for my staff more than once with my director. It’s very difficult to get a student suspended. [b]Even more so if the student is not white. [/b]Teachers are absolutely correct in saying that hands are tied. I’ll bring parents in to meet with them regarding their children’s behavior and most of them see the same struggles at home but lack the skill set to actually parent their children and hold them accountable. Our society is a mess. [/quote]

So then what are schools with a large population of non white students supposed to do? Do you work in such a school? What DO you do with these students as an administrator if you can't suspend them, but a white student would have been?  Do you understand just how disruptive this behavior is to the other students in the classroom and how it impacts them? And then you ask why students aren't meeting proficiency? Newsflash--classrooms where students have disruptive behavior means that it impacts EVERY child in that class. A student's "right" to be disruptive and abusive does not supercede the rights of every other child in that class, not to mention the teacher who has to deal with the abuse every day. More teachers are being diagnosed with anxiety disorders and PTSD for a reason.

This is what happens when MCPS cares more about being able to put out a press release about how they've decreased their suspension rate (which doesn't mean the behaviors have decreased AT ALL) than what's actually going on in classrooms and schools.  All administrators who are not actively trying to put an end to the current situation in MCPS are guilty of being part of the problem. Don't just sit there and tell me your hands are tied. [/quote]

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