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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda-Chevy Chase parent here. According to rumors (because the school doesn't want to share), the students who were involved in a fight that injured the Principal and head of security were a transfer from another high school, and one with a ankle monitor. BCC parents have been up in arms over the safety issues at the school. It started with the assault of WJ students after a game in the fall. Then there was an armed carjacking of a vehicle in Silver Spring, driven all the way to the BCC campus. Then the fight that injured the Principal. There has been an uptick in vaping and drug use at BCC, which has led to bathrooms being closed at lunchtime, which is a nightmare for kids who actually need to go, because there are long lines for the few bathrooms that are kept open. Magical for anyone on their period or people with digestive issues.

So yes. Your Poolesville thing seems par for the course for the state of MCPS today.

Montgomery County needs to build more alternative schools to permanently educate violent youths, instead of sending them back to their home schools. Staff and students in regular schools need to feel safe coming in every day.[/quote]

Building more alternative schools sounds good, but then you have to staff them. My brother taught at an alternative school for a year and said some of his students were scary.[/quote]

It’s understood that a school for violent kids won’t be run on the same lines as the normal ones. What they get is juvie with a degree.[/quote]

I taught at an alternative school in Maryland in a nearby county.  There are typically a lot of therapists on staff and it is easy to get a student removed who is disrupting.  However it is important to understand that most of the students sent to these facilities have multiple major problems in life.  They have been “thrown away” repeatedly.  They typically have have a mix of major trauma, often have learning disabilities, poverty, drugs or issues, family abuse, etc.  They need a lot of support to be successful.  However it is not a jail or “juvy”. It is important for them to understand that it is a second chance.  In my opinion though, most of the kids would be fine if they had a one on one or shadow adult at their home school.  [b]The actions leading to arrests that people are talking about here are usually happening out of school and outside the school day[/b].[/quote]

#agedlikemilk[/quote]

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