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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Maybe this is an ignorant question as we see new to the area, but why on earth is this the case? It seems to be a huge liability. I mean, I can see a situation where a child could easily wander off or be abducted and literally no one would know. And I don’t understand why they don’t pay paraeducators more, if that is the reason they can’t hire. Where are all the taxpayer dollars going, as well as the massive infusion of funds MCPS received from COVID relief? It makes no sense to me. [/quote]

There was an actually an incident at our ES where several kids left campus during recess. It was a big deal.  I have no idea what the ratios are. We’ve been told parents cannot volunteer to supervise recess (per MCPS policy) so I’m curious about the previous poster asking for parents to volunteer.  [/quote]

I would be concerned about a school not allowing parents at recess. It sounds like they have something to hide.[/quote]

Not necessarily. Parents aren't MCPS employees and trained on how to descalate child conflict. And they also could show favoritism toward their child. Do you really want parents policing other people's kids' behavior? [/quote]

You must not have volunteered at an MCPS recess. Yes, I will take parents volunteering any day. When I volunteered on a regular basis when my daughter was in K, I regularly went back and forth to the nurses' office alond with several other parents because so many kids had injuries, bloody noses, etc. MCPS absolutely needs parent volunteers to make it work. Would it be better if they had an adequate number of professionals doing it? Absolutely. But given that they don't, it's not doable without a lot of parents regularly volunteering, at least in the younger grades.[/quote]

Dude, you have to be talking about 20 years ago.  Our kids were in elementary a decade ago and MCPS elementary frowned upon it.[/quote]
I had a kid in elementary in MCPS 4 years ago and it was encouraged.[/quote]

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