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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Says the principal who turned off the stadium lights on children and ordered them to go home. :shock: [/quote]

Powder puff Mom is back.[/quote]

Yes, as someone who sees plenty of real problems with MCPS, can you please stop piling onto Brandice Heckert. She’s so small potatoes and you’re distracting from much bigger issues and weakening those cases by seeming petty and whiny. She’s not going to be the one to solve most of your  issues, principals are more or less neutered in MCPS. You’re wasting your time worrying about unreturned emails and powder puff football. Plus it’s getting old. We get it. You don’t like the new traffic pattern. You want her to pay closer attention to you and your emails, and you’re ticked off about how she disciplines.. I think you’re a different person than the one or ones posting about abusive coaches. Even those people recognize that Heckert isn’t going to take care of business. Half of that is because central ties her hands. Also principals don’t like to make too many waves until they have the lay of the land. Those decisions will have to be directed from higher up. I’m not criticizing you for disliking her and I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying you’re misdirecting your attention. While you’re on here, she’s on twitter celebrating those same coaches and buddying up to central people. If you really want to engage the MCPS people, you have to go to twitter. That’s where they all are, chitchatting with each other and signing off eith  #raise and all that stuff.

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Twitter isn't anonymous. Ms. Heckert could retaliate if she knew who was complaining. The staff know this and recommend that parents go above her head or make anonymous complaints. #badnews[/quote]

The reason MCPS is so broken, who do you go to that is above Mrs. Heckert's head?  No one wants to address known problems.

Using athletics as an example, the System-Wide Athletics Director keeps Tweeting #weRAISE during a time when a serious hazing incident at Seneca Valley in September (which is only now coming forward in the media) and the unfortunate rape of 4 JV football players during another hazing incident at Damascus High School.  MCPS Athletics including problems at Churchill is in the toilet and all MCPS cares about is creating a false image of respect & sportsmanship, academic excellence, integrity & character, spirited & safe competition, and equity & access - the RAISE core values.  When tweets don't match up with reality, the credibility of the person tweeting is damaged.

My suggestion is for parents to come to Cabin John MS and let Marc Elrich know of the problems at Churchill.  We probably are not unique with many of the issues including a huge population increase which is the underlying reason for the traffic situation and the additional buses this year.  The County Council has the power of funding for schools and Erlrich specifically has been concerned about student mental health and wellbeing as well as student safety as it relates to the poor practice of progressive discipline in MCPS schools.  Progressive discipline is the MCPS terminology for giving bad staff members multiple chances to stop their bad behavior including predatory grooming traits prior to firing them.  This common practice in MCPS leaves child predators in place for years to continue hurting children until there is enough evidence and multiple victims for the police to make the arrest.

[b]Thursday, Nov. 15 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Cabin John Middle School, 10701 Gainsborough Rd. in Potomac.[/b][/quote]

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