Anonymous wrote:I wonder what the threshold is for a background check. His prior was juvy robbery and a $50 fine and time served for solicitation.

This would seem like a deal breaker to me. But, what do I know?

I keep seeing the ads on buses to ‘Ban the Box’ to allow people who have committed crimes to easily re-enter the work force.

People with criminal backgrounds can still get good jobs in MCPS. I wonder what he was getting paid.

Thank McKnight and the Central Office for having high standards. Great job!

I wonder what the threshold is for a background check. His prior was juvy robbery and a $50 fine and time served for solicitation.

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Anonymous wrote:Wood parent here. I hope those parents sue MCPS for A LOT of money.

I think all Wood parents should ban together for a class action lawsuit for endangering ALL the kids there.

PP here. And I don’t disagree with you. I’m sitting here talking to my spouse about this right now. What can we do, because I’m tired of sitting idly by while MCPS puts my kid in danger. How do we as parents even begin to demand answers and accountability? I’m not even talking about a financial settlement—I don’t want MCPSs money. I just want them to do their jobs. I am open to any thought people have, truly.

The school system is really just too large for parents to make a difference. The PTA is useless (and somewhat corrupt). The BOE truly doesn’t care. And there is no oversight.

You can pull your kid out to go into private school, but it’s almost impossible to initiate change in a public school system as large as MCPS. This is why so many large, diverse, urban school districts fail.

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Anonymous wrote:Wood parent here. I hope those parents sue MCPS for A LOT of money.

I think all Wood parents should ban together for a class action lawsuit for endangering ALL the kids there.

PP here. And I don’t disagree with you. I’m sitting here talking to my spouse about this right now. What can we do, because I’m tired of sitting idly by while MCPS puts my kid in danger. How do we as parents even begin to demand answers and accountability? I’m not even talking about a financial settlement—I don’t want MCPSs money. I just want them to do their jobs. I am open to any thought people have, truly.

Organize friends and neighbors to vote radically different next time, if you’re serious. You’d think most parents would care.

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Anonymous wrote:Wood parent here. I hope those parents sue MCPS for A LOT of money.

I think all Wood parents should ban together for a class action lawsuit for endangering ALL the kids there.

PP here. And I don’t disagree with you. I’m sitting here talking to my spouse about this right now. What can we do, because I’m tired of sitting idly by while MCPS puts my kid in danger. How do we as parents even begin to demand answers and accountability? I’m not even talking about a financial settlement—I don’t want MCPSs money. I just want them to do their jobs. I am open to any thought people have, truly.

MCPS not only has security protocol problems, they are abysmal at staffing good security personnel either. MCPS should be ashamed of itself.

Anonymous wrote:This whole thing is mind blowingly ridiculous. How will MCPS take accountability for neglect on their part? They endangered hundreds of students at that school by failing to do their due diligence in their hiring practices!

They will not. MCPS is simply too large and too dysfunctional. Nobody is ever held responsible. Zero accountability. It’s a mess and our kids are suffering.

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To chaperone my middle schooler's Busch Gardens instrumental music event, I HAVE TO GET A BACKGROUND CHECK AND FINGERPRINTS, and do child abuse and neglect training.

What about this guy who works in a school on a daily basis?!!!? We need some sort of class action lawsuit on all the sexual assaults that have happened in MCPS, with all of us parents as plaintiffs, and accuse MCPS of knowingly creating an unsafe environment for our children.

And provide proof of Covid vaccination. Because, you know… we need to keep kids ‘safe’ from Covid. Or something like that.

Bottom line:
Schools will remain danger zones.

This is one of the reasons we moved to private, from a school in a "W" district. MCPS for whatever reason just seemed asleep at the wheel. When Smith left as superintendent, that would have been a great time to shake things up but instead after a nationwide search, we just ended up with his deputy. Maybe they're too big; maybe it's their corporate culture; maybe the BOE needs to actually do oversight not rubber-stamp. Whatever it is, we scraped together funding to not stand idly by with the hope they'd fix things, and instead removed our kids from the problem.

Anonymous wrote:Wood parent here. I hope those parents sue MCPS for A LOT of money.

I think all Wood parents should ban together for a class action lawsuit for endangering ALL the kids there.

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To chaperone my middle schooler's Busch Gardens instrumental music event, I HAVE TO GET A BACKGROUND CHECK AND FINGERPRINTS, and do child abuse and neglect training.

What about this guy who works in a school on a daily basis?!!!? We need some sort of class action lawsuit on all the sexual assaults that have happened in MCPS, with all of us parents as plaintiffs, and accuse MCPS of knowingly creating an unsafe environment for our children.

+1 I'm not a sue happy person, and lawyers actually get on my nerves, but I think it's long passed time for MCPS to be held accountable for their many failings here.

I am now also starting to believe that MCPS central office is just a bloated machine that sucks up taxpayer money with very little to show for it. Clearly, the people hired to do the vetting aren't doing their jobs, yet MCPS is probably wanting to create more central Admin staff rather than funding more teachers. And Elrich wants to increase taxes to meet the bloated budget demands by MCPS, which again, wants to increase central admin staff.

Wood parent here. I hope those parents sue MCPS for A LOT of money.

This whole thing is mind blowingly ridiculous. How will MCPS take accountability for neglect on their part? They endangered hundreds of students at that school by failing to do their due diligence in their hiring practices!