Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 23:30     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. The only issue is when kids lose their id they cannot be easily replaced. I support all of it.


Have a digital version available. Guarantee they won’t lose their phones.


You want the school to have digital tracking capabilities on your children? That’s F’ed up.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 23:28     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good. The only issue is when kids lose their id they cannot be easily replaced. I support all of it.


Have a digital version available. Guarantee they won’t lose their phones.


+1
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 23:27     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:IDs? And who will be looking at then as 3,000 enter the building at 7:40? No one.

RM has required student IDs upon arrival since last year’s incidents of kids from other HS being in the building during the day. There are only two entrances and they are manned by security and admin in the mornings. After the initial change, there’s been no issue with kids showing ID to enter.

I wish they would upgrade to requiring the IDs to be worn visibly, like so many workplaces do. That would help with the hall wandering since teachers could more easily identify and report kids wandering without a pass.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 23:19     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:Good. The only issue is when kids lose their id they cannot be easily replaced. I support all of it.


Have a digital version available. Guarantee they won’t lose their phones.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 22:25     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:I'm all for additional monitoring but what is really needed I think is for something to be done about it on the back end. What happens to students who are caught?


This. We need there to be consistent and clear consequences for students who violate the Code of Conduct.

Until that happens, all these ‘security measures’ are just for show. And the kids know that.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 22:22     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Good. The only issue is when kids lose their id they cannot be easily replaced. I support all of it.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 22:19     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

I'm all for additional monitoring but what is really needed I think is for something to be done about it on the back end. What happens to students who are caught?
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 22:15     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:Kids will definitely not want to wear IDs. But I feel like they should be required to.

When I was student teaching in another state IDs were mandatory and it was so helpful for identifying kids in the halls and making sure they went to where they needed to be.

Random “ID checks” would happen throughout the day and kids not wearing them had to go to the office for a consequence


Hopefully a restorative detention.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 22:11     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

IDs? And who will be looking at then as 3,000 enter the building at 7:40? No one.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 21:26     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

I think it is time to add metal detectors. Unfortunate but necessary. We need to learn from DCPS
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 21:02     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

How about renovating moldy schools first? Or is indoor air quality still too boring of a subject?
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 19:40     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Anonymous wrote:They should start by fixing that terrible discipline system they have now. It’s much too vague and dependent on teachers.


+ 1 .

We are just expected to keep things tamped down. In fairness to administrators, they are trying to manage the more serious incidents that occur.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 19:32     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

They should start by fixing that terrible discipline system they have now. It’s much too vague and dependent on teachers.
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 19:28     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools

Kids will definitely not want to wear IDs. But I feel like they should be required to.

When I was student teaching in another state IDs were mandatory and it was so helpful for identifying kids in the halls and making sure they went to where they needed to be.

Random “ID checks” would happen throughout the day and kids not wearing them had to go to the office for a consequence
Anonymous
Post 04/10/2024 19:20     Subject: MCPS suggests additional safety measures for schools