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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG- MCPS cannot win.  If they do nothing you people are mad, [b]if they try to do something[/b], you are still mad.  Maybe you should monitor what is happening in your own house instead of having  MCPS do it.  My DS is in HS, I know a lot of the parents of his friends.  Most of them are so checked out, it is their last kid and they are so hands off, it is unbelievable.   [/quote]

List the things that MCPS did to curb or stop the flow of drugs in their school buildings that parents have complained about. I'll wait.

Furthermore, parents have NO CONTROL over what the kids do while they're in the school building. Kids are literally smoking up and getting high on MCPS property. What exactly would you like parents to do when they're not physically in the building but MCPS staff and security are?

Do you not understand that MCPS has a duty of care for minors when they're in the school building?[/quote]

Well guess what?  The kids are all doing it in houses during parties or haven't you heard?  Everyone knows what is going on during these parties, where are the parents? [/quote]

So you're not going to answer the question?

Obviously, parents are responsible for any illegal or reckless behavior they do at home. But the school is responsible for what's going on at school, which is the topic being discussed and addressed at hand. So can you answer the question or not? Stop deflecting.[/quote]

Parents are responsible 24/7, including when they are in school.  There is only so much MCPS can do.  If they cannot do metal detectors, bag searches and more, and place security in the bathrooms, what exactly do you want them to do especially when parents demanded removing SRO's.

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Actually, parents didn't demand removing SROs. It was a political initiative fulled by community organizers (many of whom weren't parents of MCPS students themselves), some students and politicians (Will Jawando).

Many parents have been asking for the return of SROs, in fact: https://www.mymcmedia.org/many-parents-express-support-for-return-of-school-resource-officers/

So stop making up fairytales.

At best, most people within MCPS were divided on getting rid of SROs. Most people saw the value in having SROs but were concerned by the seemingly higher incidence rates by race. But it was not a blanket, universal opinion held by parents that SROs were bad.[/quote]

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