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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no rigor behind it. They don't scan or check every kid individually. They just rely on admin and security to eyeball the kids as they come in. As you can imagine, there is enough admin and security to do this thoroughly for all kids so some kids can and do get by the so-called ID badge entry requirement.

Richard Montgomery's student newspaper quoted a student who pointed out how easy it was to bypass the ID requirement and still get into the school: https://thermtide.com/18687/news/rm-ramps-up-hallway-security-measures/

[QUOTE]Meanwhile, other students think the cards could be a good thing but are not used properly. “I think [the ID cards] would help. However, I do think security does a bad job of checking them. [b]Today I walked into school without showing my ID card because there was no security guard there[/b],” sophomore Coby Ritter said. “If the ID cards implemented it right it will go well but that takes effort.”[/QUOTE][/quote]
MCPS isn't a jail.[/quote]

How does that response address the fact that the solution has Swiss cheese-sized holes in it? And if you don't actually intend for the solution to be resourced seriously and with fidelity, why implement it? People aren't stupid.[/quote]

As a teacher, if I see a student doing something dangerous and I don't know the student's name, a readily seen student ID card helps teachers report the incident. If you want to close Swiss-cheese holes in the MCPS student-ID practice, you will find that difficult. The schools aren't detention centers.[/quote]

And that’s fine. The student ID badge system doesn’t have to be 100% airtight to be valuable.

[b]The issue is that MCPS and school leaders present this student ID badge as if it were to be implemented with tight fidelity to assuage community concerns about safety. MCPS should manage expectations around it and be honest instead of pretending that the ID badge requirement will be something it’s not.
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Policy without meaningful enforcement has long been what ails MCPS.[/quote]
You're are the one saying that. You're the one trying to find faults in anything and everything[/quote]

So the student at RM who said enforcement was lax and not good is also trying to find fault in anything? Your head is in the sand.[/quote]

Why are you making this into a molehill. No one’s head is buried except maybe yours.  It’s one random student who was probably asked and they gave their observation.  Were they there for every single minute of every day to ensure this “gap?” Please.  If after they implement this across the board and schools are not in compliance it most likely will be addressed.  [/quote]

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