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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids are not okay. SMH.[/quote]

They are not. As a former MCPS middle school teacher (resigned last year) this is one of the reasons why I left. Nothing is being done to help them. Lots of incentives on paper but no follow through. MCPS has made it a point to make it seem like there are all of these programs  to help students with any social and emotional needs however that is not the case. Those programs are put into short periods (Advisory if the school has it) to check a box. Students are literally crying for help and nothing is being done. The increase in fights and drug use all stems from it. We are unfortunately going to continue to see a rise of this issues until parents are fully aware of what’s going on in schools. [/quote]

Agreed.  Advisory short periods are where MCPS initiatives go to die.   They become check-off items for central office/admin.  Everyone knows this.  Staff dont have enough training to do emotional support for 30 random kids in a room.  These are often not the same teachers kids have daily.     The lessons are often terrible and kids wont participate.[/quote]
My kids tells me that no one pays attention to the social emotional learning stuff.  It's just another check box.

Do these administrators who come up with this stuff even know any teens? Teens don't share how they are feeling in a classroom setting with a bunch of random teens. My teen DC told me that if they did, they'd get made fun of and probably bullied.

Jawando and Elrich are completely clueless and out of touch.  They took funding away from SROs and instead told MCPS to hire 50 healthcare professionals. But MCPS has barely hired 2. But they seem to think there are 20.  
And now Jawando is being sued by the Macgruder's shooting victim's family.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/mother-of-magruder-shooting-victim-sues-school-county

[quote]A few days after the Magruder High School shooting, Councilmember Will Jawando, who is named in the lawsuit for his support in removing the SROs, told FOX 5 he believed around 20 of those positions had been filled up to that point. FOX 5 checked with MCPS on that figure. MCPS Spokesperson Chris Cram confirmed that was not true – that MCPS only had about two positions filled at the time.

In April, FOX 5 asked MCPS about the vacancies again and was told the 50 figure was scaled back to include more supervisors. MCPS informed FOX 5 they now had around 66 vacancies for mental health positions that now included psychologists, social workers, and part-time vs. full-time school counselors.[/quote]

These people are clueless. Do you know how hard it is to find mental health professionals who deal with kids, let alone those who are willing to deal with violent kids?  My niece interned at a program that deals with young violent kids. She was horrified, and after her internship was over, she said she never wanted to work with those kinds of kids again.

Why don't Jawando and Elrich and all you other progressive liberals work with these teens even for six months like my niece did for a full year?  I challenge them to do this.  Otherwise, they really should shut up and let the Principals who deal with these kids everyday manage it, and these Principals all wanted to keep SROs. There's a reason why they want them in the school. It's because they know how much violence there can be in the schools and SROs can help.[/quote]

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