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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure how they plan to regulate this. Children are allowed to be unsupervised (though not supervise younger children) at age 8 in MD. MCPS allows people on school grounds during time while school is not in session. So it seems that she would be allowed to be there. It they tried to restrict her from school grounds, it seems that they would have no way to keep her from waiting just off school grounds. [/quote]

They are allowed to be left alone at home, on your personal property. Not on the school property. If you don't think that the schools know that this is going to be a huge problem this year (thanks bell times), then good luck. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of you getting phone calls from the school, and eventually CPS if you plan on making this your daily plan. Have fun![/quote]

They can be alone in public, though. School property is public, right?[/quote]

It is property owned by the government, and in that sense it is private. The local government still has the right to pass reasonable regulations about when the public may come onto the property.[/quote]

I don't understand your point. We have MCPS government property in our neighborhood that is open to the public before 8:45 in the morning. [/quote]

PP here, where I said private, I meant to say public. The local government gets to decide when its various pieces of property are open to the public. It can make different rules for different properties, so there's no conflict between them saying that, for instance, a public park is open at dawn, but a school property, where there are already children inside for before-care, is not open to the public during hours of operation unless those members of the public are permitted inside the school at that time. If school properties were completely open to the public all the time, would you want all the weirdos and unprosecuted sexual offenders allowed to wander the school property, look in the windows, hang out on the playgroup during recess, etc.? I'm sure you wouldn't, you like having regulations on public property when it suits you.[/quote]

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