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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the current sad state of MCPS really the fault of the admins? Seems far more likely that central office, the superintendent and her team and the BOE are the sources of failure here and not the admins, since they don't get to make up the rules and just like teachers and educators, have to comply with whatever diarrhea trickles down from the top.[/quote]

I am an elementary school teacher and I believe that the largest issue is the BOE and superintendent. Principals have their hands tied with what discipline they are allowed to give and in elementary school, it is pretty much zero. Schools have been told that restorative justice fixes everything even though all research shows that restorative justice is only a piece of the puzzle. When children have no consequences, they learn to take advantage of it. This is true at homes and in schools. So the kids behaviors are worse due to no consequences and even with the escalating behaviors, there is nothing teachers or principals can do. The school board and central office are in offices just looking at data and patting themselves on the back for the lowered rates of detention and suspension when it is all a lie.

What I find most interesting is that it is elementary schools that seem to be experiencing the biggest issues right now. With no security guards, no way to discipline students, and teachers and kids being stuck with the same dangerous children all day (compared to 47-minute periods), everyone is miserable. I can't even imagine what the current elementary schoolers will be like when they get to high school if the current discipline strategies continue.

Central Office staff and the BOE need to be in the classrooms and see the consequences of their decisions. [/quote]

Thank you for this detail and perspective.

Do you know RJ got such a hold of MCPS and got implemented with seemingly no pushback? And now that we're here, how do we roll it back?[/quote]

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