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Anonymous wrote:NO one can provide a link to this? Why is this thread still open?

I'm sorry you don't have the google.

https://gprivate.com/search/index.html?q=#gsc.q=Clarksburg+highschool+attack

Anonymous wrote:NO one can provide a link to this? Why is this thread still open?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

Parents don't understand how much of the crazy garbage going on schools is the result of MCPS responses to quiet yet incredibly stupid initiatives handed down from MSDE. Yet MSDE skates away scot-free from any responsibility for their ridiculousness. They set arbitrary numerical targets of what they think is an OK number of suspensions, and arbitrary numerical targets of how many IEP students are allowed to be in LRE-C (<40% of time in gen ed). Probably these come from some faddish university ivory tower bleeding hearts who were last in the classroom in 1993 and wrote some position papers.

And the knock on effect is that MCPS won't suspend students AND won't put them in self-contained classes so they won't get slapped by MSDE. So discipline falls to pieces, the school is full of students fighting and throwing chairs and vaping in the bathrooms with no consequences, parents and teachers think admin is feckless, admin has no time to do their jobs, teachers can't teach, students can't learn, but hey, MSDE got the numbers they wanted!

People should be demanding a lot more accountability and transparency from MSDE so the blame goes up the chain where it belongs. They rule school systems seemingly by fiat and they are useless, rigid wonks.

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NO one can provide a link to this? Why is this thread still open?

The Clery Act requires schools to report any incidents that take place on campus, but it only applies to higher ed, not K-12. MCPS has an incentive to cover things up. Universities do too, that's why the Clery Act was passed.

Anonymous wrote:NO one can provide a link to this? Why is this thread still open?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

This is an off the rails crazy take. If a student is dangerous but they happen to be a girl, low income, minority etc… we should just turn a blind eye?

It should be treated as a privilege in the sense that if someone cant keep their hands to themselves and are a safety issue for other kids/employees then they simply no longer have the privilege. MCPS really needs to be better about actually doing something about violent kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent problem kids need to be expelled and forced to find a private school or get their GED. In general too, MCPS is too soft on everything. Look at the inflated grades, poor student conduct, the clueless legal team/admin who cause and then can’t defend a lawsuit. Needs new leadership ASAP.

+1 I understand why progressives try to keep these troubled violent kids in regular school, but c'mon, you are doing so at the expense of the vast majority of kids, and teachers/admins.

Everyone is owed a public education but not everyone is owed access to school buildings. In this day and age, virtual learning for behavior problems is totally fine. They aren't in the building to learn anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Violent problem kids need to be expelled and forced to find a private school or get their GED. In general too, MCPS is too soft on everything. Look at the inflated grades, poor student conduct, the clueless legal team/admin who cause and then can’t defend a lawsuit. Needs new leadership ASAP.

+1 I understand why progressives try to keep these troubled violent kids in regular school, but c'mon, you are doing so at the expense of the vast majority of kids, and teachers/admins.

Everyone is owed a public education but not everyone is owed access to school buildings. In this day and age, virtual learning for behavior problems is totally fine. They aren't in the building to learn anyway.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS Admin here - I wish parents understood how much our hands are tied when it comes to suspending students. The kids know we can't really do much. Our directors have to approve every suspension that we make and high suspension numbers reflect poorly on our school system for MSDE.

This might sound terrible, but school should be treated like more of a privilege than a right (FAPE). As an administrator, we're supposed to be instructional leaders. I cannot get into classrooms consistently to provide feedback on instruction because of how extreme student behaviors have become over the past decade.

As another poster mentioned, so many of society's issues are spilling into our school buildings and educators are expected to wear every hat under the sun. Truthfully, we shouldn't have to juggle all of these challenges. We all went to school to teach and that is becoming more and more challenging to do.

If school is treated as a privilege, girls, low income people, kids with disabilities and those who are people of color will be lucky to be offered any education at all.

They want white girls uneducated and married off soon after puberty to pump out cannon fodder for the Fatherland. You only have to open a history book to know that securing a quality free education the rest has been a battle for more than a century.

I have family members alive today who attended segregated schools after Brown because it took years to actually integrate.