Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 14:54     Subject: Re:Asbestos in school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Way to bury the lead. The asbestos is just one part of the problems laid out in this article.

MCPS decided ONE security guard would be suitable for TWO alt schools with some of their most behaviorally challenged students? Are they insane?


Actually, we are talking about 60 kids in a single building so one security guard is probably the least upsetting component of this situation. The black mold and asbestos are a far bigger problem.

Also, TIL that MCPS actually does have programs for kids whose criminal behavior does not allow mainstream placement. I thought that went away when they closed the earlier program.


Did you even read the whole article? We're talking about 60 kids who are SEVERELY behaviorally challenged and have gotten so physically violent that multiple staff, students and admin have gotten injured. So yes, I do think that one security guard is VERY upsetting given that context.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 14:51     Subject: Asbestos in school
I mean, asbestos exists at a lot of schools, but this situation sounds more severe than others have reported, in that the tiles are broken and exposed rather than remaining encapsulated.

I'm not saying Poolesville and Eastern and other schools don't also need remediation, but this sounds more serious and probably deserves to jump the line.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 14:32     Subject: Asbestos in school
Asbestos at Poolesville high school also
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 11:27     Subject: Re:Asbestos in school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Way to bury the lead. The asbestos is just one part of the problems laid out in this article.

MCPS decided ONE security guard would be suitable for TWO alt schools with some of their most behaviorally challenged students? Are they insane?


Actually, we are talking about 60 kids in a single building so one security guard is probably the least upsetting component of this situation. The black mold and asbestos are a far bigger problem.

Also, TIL that MCPS actually does have programs for kids whose criminal behavior does not allow mainstream placement. I thought that went away when they closed the earlier program.


But very small and no additional capacity as enrollment grew. The issue now is seats. No where near enough seats for need.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 10:53     Subject: Asbestos in school
If it makes you feel more equitable, W schools have asbestos and mold too.
Anonymous
Post 01/17/2025 10:29     Subject: Re:Asbestos in school
Anonymous wrote:Way to bury the lead. The asbestos is just one part of the problems laid out in this article.

MCPS decided ONE security guard would be suitable for TWO alt schools with some of their most behaviorally challenged students? Are they insane?


Actually, we are talking about 60 kids in a single building so one security guard is probably the least upsetting component of this situation. The black mold and asbestos are a far bigger problem.

Also, TIL that MCPS actually does have programs for kids whose criminal behavior does not allow mainstream placement. I thought that went away when they closed the earlier program.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2025 21:53     Subject: Re:Asbestos in school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Way to bury the lead. The asbestos is just one part of the problems laid out in this article.

MCPS decided ONE security guard would be suitable for TWO alt schools with some of their most behaviorally challenged students? Are they insane?


The lead wasn't buried. Asbestos will kill everyone.


PSA: It’s bury the “lede.”


Both lede and lead are acceptable. Lede is a journalistic spelling of lead.


The idiom is in the journalism context and is only spelled “lede.”


Please shut up:

https://proofed.com/writing-tips/idiom-tips-bury-the-lede-or-bury-the-lead/

Both “bury the lede” and “bury the lead” are acceptable spellings of this phrase.


https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-roy-peter-clark-has-the-definitive-answer-at-last/

Sitting as I am near a library of about 12,000 journalism books, I decided to re-create Owens’s research — maybe kick it up a notch if I could. His conclusion was that there was “no historic basis for the spelling of a lead as ‘lede.’ ‘Lede’ is an invention of linotype romanticists, not something used in newsrooms of the linotype era.”