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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Einstein High School has a closed campus rule but the [b]principal, Mark Brown, has stated that he will not enforce the rule.[/b] 
As someone who lives near the school, I can tell you our neighborhood has been negatively affected. 
Besides picking up trash every school day, I have photos of fights, drug use, drug deals and one student displaying a knife! I have passed these photos on to the principal and the BOE. Neither has done anything. 
There are also those students roaming around after lunchtime and throughout the day. Einstein is a magnet school and very few, if any, of these kids live in the neighborhood. [/quote]

I don't understand why MCPS gives principals this kind of latitude.

The truth is, Open Lunch has NEVER worked. Yes, there are some kids who do what they're supposed to do but the reality is, there will always be that minority of kids who abuse the privilege and ruin it for everybody. It was that way in '90s and it remains that way now.

So closed lunch IS the best way forward. But MCPS should look to partner with food vendors to have them do pop-ups to let kids buy the food INSIDE the school that they would buy outside. We have to stop pouring the money we pour into cafeteria food that the kids hate because it's tasteless, spoiled, or undesirable for whatever reasons. It's time for MCPS to innovate. Maybe MCPS should outsource cafeteria operations to a vendor completely. But the existing model isn't working for kids.[/quote]

Many kids cannot afford that.  [/quote]

But many can. They’re ordering UberEats and DoorDash to school now, where there are closed lunches. And the schools that have open lunches, the kids are going to those restaurants and shops and buying. Bring those shops to the school instead of having the kids go to them.[/quote]

Maybe in your world but I don’t know any kids doing that and mine are not.  That would be terrible when not all kids can afford it. [/quote]

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