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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am currently considering filing a joint complaint with the US Justice Department and US Department of Education for civil rights violations in connection to their failure to protect my child, retaliation for reporting child abuse, and their lack of response which equated to indifference of the problem. United with other families sith similar experiences at multiple schools in Montgomery County, there's probably enough to warrant a financial sanction. Something needs to be done and I am a believer that the Federal Government power to withhold funds is the wake up call MCPS needs. [b]Currently they are big on spin but doing very little to protect children.[/b][/quote]

This X100. The other safety issue is failure to report student incidents that occur in school. Some principals in rougher schools are obsessed with improving the school's reputation and pressure teachers and staff to handle things 'internally' to not mess up the numbers. The central office also pressures schools to under report. This can range from physical, violent threats and assaults by students against not only other students but teachers too! This creates a dangerous situation for students and teachers. [/quote]

I could tell my child's incident wasn't on the data disclosed about the school from Central Office because no incidences of that type was listed for the 2017-2018 school year.  You are completely correct that something is off and they try to make everything appear to be puppy dogs and unicorns for their reputation.  The data MCPS presents is skewed and problems don't get fixed.
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We have absolutely had incidents at our school - assault against other students, threats towards other students, threats towards teachers.  NONE of them show up for our school.  NONE.  Agree that the principal at our school wants to just handle things 'internally' and doesn't accurately report incidents.  [/quote]

The problem of not reporting the data is an ethical violation on behalf of the principal.  Not reporting is covering up a problem that exists.  If it appears a problem doesn't exist, then there is no incentive for the principal to do something to correct the problem.

Not sure how active your PTA is, but could you tell the PTA president about the problem and have the PTA president connect with the MCCPTA to help investigate why the numbers do not reflect known incidences?  [/quote]

Thank you for that suggestion.  We are at a lower income school, and the PTA is not super active.  I may try to do this anyway, and just see what happens.

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You could also ask the PTA President for the email contact info for the MCCPTA President and the chairs of the MCCPTA Health and Saftey Committee. That way you can give them the info directly.[/quote]

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