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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's MCPS standard policy to move a troubled student to another school. If you remember the Damascus locker room gang rape case from a few years ago, the perpetrator was on his third MCPS high school by that point.

They shut down Mark Twain years ago for equity reasons (too many of certain races and gender ended up there), but seems like that would be a useful place to send troubled students, and not to another school to make more tboule.

Oh, and as usual, no MCPS staff changes will be made. In the Damascus case, the principal (who wait until the next day to report the alleged rape to the police) was just reassigned to a cushy job in the central office.
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MCPS standard policy in this regard is failing. They need to change re-evaluate it.

They shut down Mark Twain because of the OPTICS related to equity, but not because they actually cared about the equitable outcomes for Black and Hispanic kids, who make up the majority of suspensions and expulsions.

Shutting down Mark Twain for "equity" while not addressing the underlying issues that are the root cause of the behavioral issues and instead just making them another principal's problem, is as bad or maybe worse than shuffling them off to Mark Twain.

I think the real issue is that MCPS is not good at responding to and rehabilitating kids with behavioral issues and so they default to one of two responses:

1) Discard and dispose of the kids and treat them like prisoners, which is not tenable for legal reasons
2) Ignore and excuse the behaviors and make everyone else (other students and their teachers) suffer while you insist anyone who complains is racist

Neither stance is good and leads to the same outcome: Unsafe schools for everyone.[/quote]

These kids fall under DJJ, which would have been Noyes.[/quote]

What happened to Noyes?

Mcps certainly didn’t learn from Damascus or Magruder, and here we are. [/quote]

Do you not understand that it falls under DJJ, not MCPS?  Two different systems.  MCPS doesn't handle juvenile issues.  DJJ does.  MCPS is required to provide an education except if DJJ steps in and those are locked facilities.[/quote]

What is DJJ? Do you mean DJS? The Department of Juvenile Services? https://djs.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx[/quote]

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