Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2nd grader with severe behavioral problems a little over a decade ago. After months of parents complaining about this child, of students facing injuries at the hands of this child, of teachers and counselors collecting data, child was removed from gen ed and sent to a special school. In the years since, I've seen multiple ES kids with violent behaviors allowed to roam halls, skip classes they weren't interested in, and occasionally parents called to pick the child up (not often enough). It's awful

That's not expulsion though. Schools have to college data on a timeline to have a change in placement. Plenty of students end up in different placements in other schools.

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This is not expulsion! This is a child with special needs who moved to a different school that could support them better.

Two cousins from a fancy NYC private school, where they were legacies.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an MCPS. I've seen and had students who were perpetrators and victims of horrible assaults in mcps. I don't think I ever saw suspension. Teachers losing their jobs bc the kids are crazy kids violent and uncontrollable on the other hand; they get rid of us and blame us as the problem. Even our union fights us alongside the admin and we pay them money.

A kid brought a gun to middle school; the school responded by having a meeting for parents.

Kid was not expelled.

This was at Longfellow middle school last year.

That is crazy.

I taught at the alternative program for a county in Maryland for five years. It often takes a long time to get expelled, like at least a year of the original school trying to show interventions first. So kid may be tearing up the school, cussing out teachers, for a long time. Now if a kid does some thing obviously illegal like bring a firearm that can be an immediate move to the alternative school, but that decision has a process and may require involvement with a judge first. The process always favors finding the best solution for the student to be successful. Some kids want to get expelled in order to go to a smaller school. Real sad. Other kids are obviously dangerous. Just lose their head when they get upset. I had one kid kill his own two year old when the kid wouldn’t stop crying.

These kids often move around a lot. The families and the kids can be master manipulators. Our country said if you came from a different alternative program then you would transfer into our alternative program. The kids usually need a lot of support and therapy, something regular schools usually suck at.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an MCPS. I've seen and had students who were perpetrators and victims of horrible assaults in mcps. I don't think I ever saw suspension. Teachers losing their jobs bc the kids are crazy kids violent and uncontrollable on the other hand; they get rid of us and blame us as the problem. Even our union fights us alongside the admin and we pay them money.

A kid brought a gun to middle school; the school responded by having a meeting for parents.

Kid was not expelled.

This was at Longfellow middle school last year.