Anonymous
08/08/2025 13:16
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/661497.page
Read this thread
Anonymous
08/08/2025 13:06
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
Wrong
CPS checks have not been done but keep up the lies to cover for Essie Mcguire.
When you write like this, everyone can see you have an axe to grind. It's one thing to demand clarification from MCPS and push for faster processing of safety regulations in general, and quite another to attack an employee by name (full disclosure - I have no idea who this is). If someone is unhappy with your job performance, are you OK with them attacking YOU personally on the internet?
There must be Central Office staff or people who know people in Central office making comments about certain persons who work at CO.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 12:53
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/661497.page
Another thread about outdoor ed
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1098728.page
Anonymous
08/08/2025 12:32
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wanted to love outdoor Ed but the kids seem to hate it. I hear so many complaints about the food being inedible or served dangerously undercooked. I wish they would just order pizza and get bagels for the morning or something to remove that as an issue. It’s hard enough for a lot of these kids to be away from home, sleeping in communal barracks, and doing oitdoorsy stuff —/ make the food easy for them at least.
There’s more than one location and the food varies greatly between them. The inedible food was at Smith Center and was the regular MCPS cafeteria food.
Move definitely heard it from more than one location. I can’t remember the first one but the second one was the Y facility out in Edgewater.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:42
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
Wrong
CPS checks have not been done but keep up the lies to cover for Essie Mcguire.
When you write like this, everyone can see you have an axe to grind. It's one thing to demand clarification from MCPS and push for faster processing of safety regulations in general, and quite another to attack an employee by name (full disclosure - I have no idea who this is). If someone is unhappy with your job performance, are you OK with them attacking YOU personally on the internet?
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:30
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
Wrong
CPS checks have not been done but keep up the lies to cover for Essie Mcguire.
Idiot, CPS checks are not background checks.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:21
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Years ago, about 15 or so, I chaperoned my DD to OE. The second night one of the dad chaperones ask me (and presumably some other parents) if they want to party in the parking lot that night...umm, no thank you.
Well the next morn some person comes to get me to "talk to the principal" and I see a few police cars in the lot...wth??!!
That father apparently found some high schooler chaperones who were willing to party with him. ugh, what a scene...
The system worked as it should, I gather.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:15
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Years ago, about 15 or so, I chaperoned my DD to OE. The second night one of the dad chaperones ask me (and presumably some other parents) if they want to party in the parking lot that night...umm, no thank you.
Well the next morn some person comes to get me to "talk to the principal" and I see a few police cars in the lot...wth??!!
That father apparently found some high schooler chaperones who were willing to party with him. ugh, what a scene...
Well the next morn some person comes to get me to "talk to the principal" and I see a few police cars in the lot...wth??!!
That father apparently found some high schooler chaperones who were willing to party with him. ugh, what a scene...
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:12
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
That's why you should volunteer to go with your kid, common sense
Do the volunteers need background checks?
Yes, but most schools do not take parents to outdoor ed.
My kid's school asked parents to help chaperone Outdoor Ed (they were looking for one same-sex parent per cabin), and warned them to set up their background check appointments early because it took some time to get the results. I did not go, but I was background checked twice for chaperoning music field trips to Busch Gardens, because even though there's no overnight, it's longer than a normal school day (leave at 6am, return at 10pm, except if the bus breaks down, which happened once). Each check is valid for three years, and my kids are 5 years apart, so I had to do it twice. The process is easy, it just takes several weeks for results to arrive.
Me again. MCPS volunteers who do the background check, or who serve in a regular capacity, also need to complete child neglect and abuse training. You are taught to recognize some signs, not to touch children or be alone with one, and you are taught to report anything of concern to CPS.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:10
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
That's why you should volunteer to go with your kid, common sense
Do the volunteers need background checks?
Yes, but most schools do not take parents to outdoor ed.
My kid's school asked parents to help chaperone Outdoor Ed (they were looking for one same-sex parent per cabin), and warned them to set up their background check appointments early because it took some time to get the results. I did not go, but I was background checked twice for chaperoning music field trips to Busch Gardens, because even though there's no overnight, it's longer than a normal school day (leave at 6am, return at 10pm, except if the bus breaks down, which happened once). Each check is valid for three years, and my kids are 5 years apart, so I had to do it twice. The process is easy, it just takes several weeks for results to arrive.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:05
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
Wrong
CPS checks have not been done but keep up the lies to cover for Essie Mcguire.
CPS checks are separate from general background screenings, Every current working MCPS employee has completed a criminal background check.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:05
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
That's why you should volunteer to go with your kid, common sense
Do the volunteers need background checks?
Yes, but most schools do not take parents to outdoor ed.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:03
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:I wanted to love outdoor Ed but the kids seem to hate it. I hear so many complaints about the food being inedible or served dangerously undercooked. I wish they would just order pizza and get bagels for the morning or something to remove that as an issue. It’s hard enough for a lot of these kids to be away from home, sleeping in communal barracks, and doing oitdoorsy stuff —/ make the food easy for them at least.
There’s more than one location and the food varies greatly between them. The inedible food was at Smith Center and was the regular MCPS cafeteria food.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 11:03
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:All staff have been background checked. Some haven’t been recently background checkedz
Wrong
CPS checks have not been done but keep up the lies to cover for Essie Mcguire.
Anonymous
08/08/2025 10:45
Subject: Outdoor ed- background checks?
Anonymous wrote:It's more the other staff. These staff are working with your kids every day so if it will happen, it will happen at school. Our school doesn't follow safe sport and teachers have private groups, parents aren't allowed in (yes, we check it), which is more concerning.
Paras are also background checked.
Outside coaches aren’t at outdoor ed.