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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.[/quote]

Parents don't understand how much of the crazy garbage going on schools is the result of MCPS responses to quiet yet incredibly stupid initiatives handed down from MSDE. Yet MSDE skates away scot-free from any responsibility for their ridiculousness. They set arbitrary numerical targets of what they think is an OK number of suspensions, and arbitrary numerical targets of how many IEP students are allowed to be in LRE-C (<40% of time in gen ed). Probably these come from some faddish university ivory tower bleeding hearts who were last in the classroom in 1993 and wrote some position papers.

And the knock on effect is that MCPS won't suspend students AND won't put them in self-contained classes so they won't get slapped by MSDE. So discipline falls to pieces, the school is full of students fighting and throwing chairs and vaping in the bathrooms with no consequences, parents and teachers think admin is feckless, admin has no time to do their jobs, teachers can't teach, students can't learn, but hey, MSDE got the numbers they wanted!

People should be demanding a lot more accountability and transparency from MSDE so the blame goes up the chain where it belongs. They rule school systems seemingly by fiat and they are useless, rigid wonks. [/quote]

Did MSDE make MCPS shut down Mark Twain?[/quote]

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