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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]So the details behind the RMHS lockdown are coming out and it looks like it was a robbery of Gaithersburg students by RMHS students, who conspired to let the Gaithersburg students in. Which sounds like....the RMHS students were the bad actors here and not the Gaithersburg ones as we thought, since the Gaithersburg students ended up as robbery victims: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/police-juveniles-arrested-after-group-of-gaithersburg-students-were-led-into-a-school-bathroom-and-robbed/65-c0d900a7-03e5-4578-906f-11075bafb875

This was a plot twist.[/quote]

Thanks for posting this.  I hadn't seen this update.  Fourteen and fifteen year old suspects?  How horrible, whether they were from RM or Gaithersburg.  What the F is going on in our schools.  No wonder my kid tells me she doesn't want to use the bathrooms at school.  Parents should be horrified that this is going on AT school.  [/quote]

Your kid doesn’t want to use the bathroom at school? Are you at all considering other options? That’s a horrible experience for a kid.[/quote]

Another RM parent and my daughter never goes to the bathroom.  All day.  The amount of vaping, drugs and fighting going on in bathrooms at RM is unreal. She will go off campus at lunch or just hold it until she gets home.  It has been that way the past 2 years she has been there.  So many people said it was such a great school and we haven't seen that side yet. [/quote]

Also have a kid at RM and the bathrooms are definitely an issue.

Can you imagine working at a job where you couldn’t use the bathroom when you wanted because there were too many co-workers in there smoking.  My kid knows the times when they can use the bathroom, and otherwise holds it.

It really stinks and I’m not sure why they can’t do anything about this.  [/quote]
One of the past PTA meetings I asked about the security around the bathrooms and was told that a female staff makes the rounds. I took that at face value.

There's a PTA meeting today around security. Definitely bring this up in that meeting.  ITA, there needs to be more monitoring around the bathrooms.  They need a female security guard  to handle girls bathrooms.[/quote]

There is a Google form for parents to fill out with questions.  I hope parents from this thread can ask about this.  It's not just the girls bathroom.  [b]The boys bathrooms are also a nightmare[/b], and of course, both the girls and boys bathrooms on the one floor are often closed.  Seems like admin should be able to come up with something to alleviate this issue.  [/quote]

Yes, my son has expressed anxiety about using the bathroom as well, says he's witnessed what he believes were drug deals there. Ugh.[/quote]

Same. My son was threatened when he innocently went to the bathroom. [b]Refused to tell staff because he knew his risk of getting beat up/bullied was much higher than staff doing anything about a group of kids vaping and passing pills in a deal. [/b]There are no consequences and the school just doesn’t discipline. He never goes to the bathroom anymore. I expressed my generalized concern in Oct and never even had a reply email. [/quote]

Unfortunately, this is the truth.

I don't think it's just RM though.  Sounds like all schools in MCPS simply don't enforce consequences or discipline.  Not sure it's just the RM Principal at fault here.  If she does try to implement discipline, will Central Office support her?  I think her hands are tied.  She can't kick kids out of school.  The disciplinary actions appear to be non-existent?

[b]This is a school-system wide problem that MCPS doesn't want to address or fix. [/b] Interested to see what she has to say at the meeting tonight.  [/quote][/quote]

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