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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just signed a contract with our private for another year. $52k/year. It's a hefty sum, but it's worth it for us compared to MCPS. We were in MCPS before, but after watching BOE meetings online during Covid (to see when they would reopen), it was clear the BOE isn't good at more than rubber-stamping requests from MCPS, and MCPS is pretty inept at management at the top. The teachers we had in MCPS were great, but they're held down by the MCPS "system".[/quote]

Funny thing is we're completely happy with MCPS. It may not be perfect but if you're involved in your kids, education they'll do fine. [/quote]

You can be involved at home, but how do you solve things like the bathroom situation being reported here? Buy diapers? It's not like you manage the security guards or the principal.[/quote]

When I was in school, I was reluctant to use public bathrooms because of stuff that often went on there. It wasn't all that hard to avoid.[/quote]

I don't know when you were in school, but I assure you the bathroom culture is way worse than it was back then.

In the past 12 months:

1. Shooting in bathroom after a fight at Magruder
2. Countless overdoses in Kennedy bathrooms, most recently one on Jan. 24. 
3. A robbery of three Gaithersburg HS schools in the bathroom at Richard Montgomery last month
4. Two girls passed out in the bathroom stalls at B-CC
5. Rampant drug dealing taking place in bathrooms at B-CC as highlighted in this student journalism piece: https://bcctattler.org/2065/news/trappergate-major-drug-bust-begins-with-b-cc-dealer/

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.[/quote]

None of that is new, [b]except insofar as it involves guns and/or fentanyl[/b]. Both guns and fentanyl make things way worse.[/quote]

LOL I mean, yeah. Obviously. And that's why the climate today is way worse than in the '90s and before. Four out of the 5 incidents I cited involved guns and fentanyl. The only one that didn't were the B-CC girls who passed out due to alcohol, not fentanyl.[/quote]

But the point is that it's not a specifically MCPS issue. There have always been fights in school. There have always been drugs in schools, and in school bathrooms. Now that we're swimming in guns and fentanyl, they're in the schools too. MCPS has to deal with the consequences of the guns and fentanyl without being able to do anything about the causes of the guns and fentanyl.[/quote]

Ok. So what's your point? Because MCPS is not the root cause of the fentanyl and guns issue, it shouldn't respond and react to it as it infiltrates and finds a foothold within its schools?[/quote]

The question is, HOW should it respond and react? The punitive/carceral model isn't effective in general society, let alone with children.[/quote]

So what's your alternative? Because the status quo is hurting staff and students.[/quote]

If only there were things society could do besides punishing people and locking them up.
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