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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are the parents?  Clearly they are ok with their kids using. [/quote]

Where is MCPS leadership? Clearly they're asleep at the wheel.[/quote]

What can leadership do without parent support.  It goes both ways.  [/quote]

I don't think B-CC lacks for parental support. They have an active PTSA and they lobbied for the security meeting at MCPS where they leadership [b]dodged questions and paid lip service[/b]. So there are plenty of concerned and engaged parents. Now that's not true at all high schools, but[b] if MCPS is playing dumb, blind and silent with a high school full of very present and engaged parents, [b]you can only imagine what's going on elsewhere[/b] where fewer parents are engaged[/b].[/quote]

This, 100%! So true about that meeting. And: So many high schools in MCPS have minimal parent engagement...mainly because they don't have active PTSAs that have events and communications to engage with the school. I can't imagine that Kennedy would have held a parent town hall after the recent student death (please let me know if I'm wrong), because I know people w/kids at the school and know how the parental engagement in school matters is low. (this isn't to say parents are disengaged with their kids' lives more generally). And the B-CC parents specifically lobbied for MCPS to address its shortcomings system-wide (e.g., communications policy, training/drill) so that all students across the county can benefit from higher MCPS standards.

Side note: please do not just make random assumptions, or add an opinion on this thread unless you are familiar with the issues in the articles, and how they've been handled. For example, the parents advocating for changes on the part of the MCPS are not the parents of the kids who are grappling with addiction or drug use. There are different issues: (1) the drug use exists and (2) how the admin/MCPS deals with situations where that drug use affects operations during the school day, for instance (esp. if it negatively impacts 100s of students). And the changes requested related to (2), like communications and transparency, and responsiveness to concerns on bathroom safety. I'd say parents are equally concerned that drug/alcohol issues are prevalent and know it's a wider problem that takes a complex effort to address and aren't demanding that MCPS instantly solve that.[/quote]

MCCPTA and most PTA's are very clicky and not welcoming.  We tried to get involved and were basically told we weren't needed and just give money but what they spent the money on was absurd so I'd rather give to the school/staff directly.  MCCPTA picks their pet projects and focuses on specific schools vs. the real stuff that needs fixed.  Where are they on the school safety issue?  What have they actually accomplished in terms of advocacy in the past 5-10 years.

Schools need to engage parents directly.[/quote]

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