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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR. 
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I don't understand what you're arguing here. As a parent of a different school who has done all of the things you suggested, it hasn't changed anything.

Why? Because the school system does in fact want to sweep things under the rug, which you assert they do not. That has not been my experience nor the PP's.

You can email, complain, and show up to the school board all you want. You'll be stonewalled, gas lit or told that it's out of their hands as they fingerpoint at someone else within the system or point fingers at the state or the police.[/quote]

Okay - then do you have constructive feedback about what would be useful?  Because I'm a parent at SCES and reading about what you say *doesn't* work is not really helpful.   [/quote]

What would be helpful is not dismissing mine and the PP's assertion that the principal or MCPS overall are prone to sweeping things under the rug in the attempt to preserve the reputation of MCPS.[/quote]

I didn’t dismiss anyone or anything, I was only responding to your post complaining about rug-sweeping and gaslighting and asking if you had any constructive feedback about what parents *should* be doing.  But I guess you don’t.  [/quote]

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