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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My heart goes out to this child’s family, especially his mother. I have 100% been in her shoes. Filed the Bullying and Harassment Complaint form and bullying only got worse. School told the bullies to not talk to my son so the bullies then made a point to let him know snitches get stitches.

Half way through high school I paid $26,000 for Junior and $26,000 for Senior year so he would be safe. It was tight and ate at most of the savings we had for college - but I was afraid he wouldn’t survive high school if he didn’t leave our neighborhood school.

Cyber bullying, however, still existed by students at his old school and MCPS would do nothing even with the screen shots because my son was no longer an MCPS student. Screenshots telling him to kill himself were some of the messages sent.

My son learned to block the bullies from social media accounts and filed reports against some students with social media platforms. My son was accepted at his new school and excelled academically once he was out of the toxicity that was MCPS. He earned academic scholarships that helped make up the lack of college funds.

I wished her son would have had the same opportunity to thrive. The Board - the entire Board - should do a gut check and ask themselves why they didn’t do more to stop the bullying. Why don’t they ever do what is needed for children who need protection in their schools. The Board all too often follows MCPS coattails and doesn’t do their own investigation including talking with parents and students. MCPS has had a terrible two weeks for student safety. The Board has let things get this bad that a child has died. [/quote]

There’s no independent review of ANY appeal to the Board of Education.  MCPS is given legal guidance from the General Council’s Office (and any expensive lawyer they decide to contract with - most of the contracts are billed at $500 per hour). Then the Board of Education is advised by the same legal team as MCPS. There’s no sets of eyes to review if MCPS is making the right decision. The Board of Education may ask questions of MCPS staff, but the questions are asked in close session - even closed for the student and parents of the students.

The Board of Education just rubber stamps the poor and unjust MCPS decisions. No one stops to think if MCPS is denying bullying exists just so they don’t have to address that they have a bullying problem in a school.

Dr. McKnight is driving the train wreck that is MCPS but the Board of Education are willing passengers who don’t care enough to stop the train wreck. One student was shot in the past week and another (who was missing since early January) was found murdered. If that is not a reason to have an Emergency Board meeting, I don’t know what is. MCPS is in complete crisis - and they can’t blame COVID.[/quote]

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