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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in a Title One elementary school in MCPS. Our behaviors are off the charts this year. I honestly don't know how our admin continues to come to work each day. They constantly have kids in their offices. Even our staff development teacher, reading specialist, math coach AND both counselors are constantly with kids displaying behavior issues or eloping class.  Admin can't suspend kids for running the halls, even in elementary school.  I feel bad for our core team above because they can't do their actual jobs as they basically play security all day.  I have some difficult kids but at least I can close my classroom door and ignore the chaos that's unfolding in rooms across the school. 
Parents need to wake up and start parenting their kids rather than ignoring them on their phones or trying to be their friend. I applaud all of you who are trying your best to do right by your kids.  Raise hell with the county council and board of ed. Your neighborhood school's principal can't do anything to make the changes we need to see.[/quote]

You all need to work with the parents and let them know what's going on and have parents come in and volunteer and help vs. complaining.  This isn't something new.  Even before covid, may schools were closed to parents and yet, the teachers and admin complained bitterly about the parents.  We cannot help if we don't know what's going on.  Kids behave differently so they may be behaving at home and not school so if that's the situation it's on the teachers to communicate.  We'd email the teachers and rarely get a response back.[/quote]

Please point out where I said we were NOT calling parents on a daily basis about their child's behaviors? We do call and we either get sent to voicemail or cussed out and called racist. Trust me, teachers are trying everything under the sun. [/quote]

Parents who curse out school staff and admin should suffer repercussions. The government, which funds and runs MCPS, needs to start holding people accountable for this stuff.[/quote]

Repercussions? Like taking away the recess they don’t get? What exactly do you think MCPS can do to parents who aren’t breaking a law?[/quote]

Documentation on the parent's behavior would be a start. And then don't be afraid to call the police. Parents who come shouting and hollering can and do get charged for disorderly conduct and aggressive encounters with school staff.

It just happened in Florida over a father who got aggressive with a bus aide: https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/florida-dad-attacks-school-worker-after-son-banned-from-riding-from-bus/

Document, call the police, hold the aggressive, violent parents accountable.[/quote]

Yes, hitting school staff should be reported. Attempting to report missed phone calls and raised voices is a waste of everyone’s time.[/quote]

Look at the other examples I posted as well. Parents who yelled and cursed also got police called on them. [/quote]

Read them again— verbal threats. I strongly suspect they were told to leave as well. And the police certainly isn’t going to respond to a complaint about someone yelling over the phone.[/quote]

Yes, obviously in-person is what I'm referencing for disorderly conduct. But that applies to the poster who said the mom showed up at the school "enraged" and cursing at them cause her daughter was in the ER. That sounds like a disorderly conduct charge to me.[/quote]

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