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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Weapons detectors will not solve the guns in school issue. PG has them and they still have gun issues.

Example: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/police/charles-herbert-flowers-lockdown-gun-was-found-on-school-grounds/65-a4750726-f8eb-425c-afe4-607caba31fa9[/quote]

So your answer is to do nothing until a student or teacher is seriously hurt or worse?[/quote]

Absolutely not. I'm just saying that safety is not an issue that technology will fix.

It is a people, poverty and community issue. MCPS needs to partner with the Northwood community to understand root causes and actually solve the problems.

That starts with being transparent about the safety issues in the system, engaging the community on coming up with the needed solutions and resources, and hold school and system leadership accountable for their missteps and failures.

MCPS, thus far, has been unwilling to do those things. They just quickly shift from one lockdown to the next, insisting everything is ok and that these incidents are one-off anomalies when they aren't. They're part of a pattern that needs to be addressed systemically.[/quote]

MCPS cannot solve societal problems. MCPS needs to focus on teaching. Teenagers past the age of 16 should be allowed to drop out of school if they are not interested in an education. MCPS cannot rescue every student. [/quote]

True.

Small, localized schools and school districts (see PA model).  Each locality elects its down school board and decisions are made hyper-locally on what security is needed and will be funded at each school.  Enough with this one size fits all and shifting cluster boundaries every few years!

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