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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Holding my breath on "this isn't the fault of others at MCPS." We need to know what other incidents the shooter had in school. MCPS has a history of giving violent offenders chance after chance. Just look at the Damascus football "ring leader." What's the status on the kids involved in the murder of the man during a drug deal at the Bethesda Target? I wouldn't be surprised if MCPS allowed at least one of those kids back on school property. [/quote]

MCPS has nowhere to put them. They used to have a special school just for troubled students (Twain, in Rockville) and it was shut down to much fanfare so that the students could be reformed in the mainstream schools.

So now the only option is to transfer the troubled student to a new school and hope they behave. The Damascus ringleader was on his third school when that happened.[/quote]

Why don't they open up Twain again? From a psychiatric point of view, it seems best. There are some disorders that can't be mainstreamed easily, and not without a lot of supervision, which high schools don't have.[/quote]

I agree, but it's not gonna happen. The reason is equity. What would happen is the majority of students that would end up there would be POC (never mind that MCPS student body is majority POC.. a fact also ignored when they cut SROs) and there would be accusations it's segregration, Jim Crow is back, and so on.

It means the only solution other than moving them to another school is RICA, which is juvenile jail (literally) and you end up there only after the court finds you guilty of a crime. There's nothing in between. Twain fit a nice gap but MCPS does not have the leadership to try it agian.[/quote]

This is completely incorrect.  RICA is not a jail.  It is an MCPS school run in part with Shepard Pratt.  Think half hospital/ half school.  It provides extreme emotional support and therapy.  Every staff member is basically a special Ed teacher. It is a nation wide model for helping kids with emotional and pyschological needs.  You have to go through the IEP process just like most special programs in MCPS.  A judge or school admin can’t just stick someone there.[/quote]

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