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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

+1000

Also, there is a community meeting next week with MCPS to discuss the search process for the next Principal. Rather than post on this board, do something constructive and make it a priority to attend the meeting so your voice can be heard.

I've participated in the Principal search process. Your voice is not heard. As a community member on the interview panel, you are handed a pre-written and predetermined question that you read to the candidate. You do not have the opportunity to ask additional questions in addition to the ones predetermined on the script provided by MCPS HR.

I'm not referring to candidate interviews. Are you a parent at SCES? If you were, you would have received a letter today about a community meeting next week with MCPS to discuss the process of hiring a new Principal. Are you saying that no one is allowed to ask questions at this type of a community meeting? FWIW, we've been at the school awhile and I don't recall being invited to a meeting to discuss the principal search process for the current principal or the last one. I'm taking this as a positive thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Part of the problem at the school is that the principal is not honest. It was not just a steak knife. It was a sharp, straight edge, knife. Another student’s life was threatened if he told. Fortunately, older kids saw the knife and told the teacher. .

I also have child in the school and would like to know more. Was the kid in the immersion program? I saw the police in the school and nothing was done to warn the school. There was a STEAM fair going on so there were lots o f parents inside the school presenting.

A couple of things:

1) They will never tell you whether it was an immersion kid or an Academy kid, nor should they.

2) There was no threat once the knife was confiscated. I don't think it would have made sense to disrupt the STEAM fair to say that a thing happened and was over, coming from the perspective of someone at another school.

3) There is an open question about why this is all happening at SCES this year. If PP is to be believed, this is a different kid than the one creating chaos earlier in the year. SCES is not a school that usually has multiple highly disruptive violent kids. I do have a theory, but I'd be curious to hear from the "insider" on this thread about where these kids are coming from. Are they coming in from other schools?

I ask because the school where I work is the "twinned" school to a dual immersion program. When this was rolled out five years ago, we were told that we would receive kids who couldn't access the bilingual curriculum due to learning differences. However, we're actually receiving kids who can't access the curriculum because they are extremely violent. Since SC shares a middle school with a dual immersion program, part of me wonders if that's happening there as well.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

+1000

Also, there is a community meeting next week with MCPS to discuss the search process for the next Principal. Rather than post on this board, do something constructive and make it a priority to attend the meeting so your voice can be heard.

I've participated in the Principal search process. Your voice is not heard. As a community member on the interview panel, you are handed a pre-written and predetermined question that you read to the candidate. You do not have the opportunity to ask additional questions in addition to the ones predetermined on the script provided by MCPS HR.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Part of the problem at the school is that the principal is not honest. It was not just a steak knife. It was a sharp, straight edge, knife. Another student’s life was threatened if he told. Fortunately, older kids saw the knife and told the teacher. .

I also have child in the school and would like to know more. Was the kid in the immersion program? I saw the police in the school and nothing was done to warn the school. There was a STEAM fair going on so there were lots o f parents inside the school presenting.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

I don't understand what you're arguing here. As a parent of a different school who has done all of the things you suggested, it hasn't changed anything.

Why? Because the school system does in fact want to sweep things under the rug, which you assert they do not. That has not been my experience nor the PP's.

You can email, complain, and show up to the school board all you want. You'll be stonewalled, gas lit or told that it's out of their hands as they fingerpoint at someone else within the system or point fingers at the state or the police.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

+1000

Also, there is a community meeting next week with MCPS to discuss the search process for the next Principal. Rather than post on this board, do something constructive and make it a priority to attend the meeting so your voice can be heard.

I've participated in the Principal search process. Your voice is not heard. As a community member on the interview panel, you are handed a pre-written and predetermined question that you read to the candidate. You do not have the opportunity to ask additional questions in addition to the ones predetermined on the script provided by MCPS HR.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

+1000

Also, there is a community meeting next week with MCPS to discuss the search process for the next Principal. Rather than post on this board, do something constructive and make it a priority to attend the meeting so your voice can be heard.

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a staff member is posting on this board to get parents in an uproar. I highly doubt this person is a parent. Bad things happen at all schools. Yes, those bad things can be crazy. Yes, some kids need more help than others. Yes, the school system is required to educate all students be it thugs, health problems, etc. Yes, resources are limited. I do not think that staff sweep things other than rug. It is a process. No one is allowed to kick students out between k-3. You can do in school and out of school but NOT kick them out. This is public school people. We are required by law to teach these children.

What can you do as a parent? Ask you student how their day went. Document what was said. Follow up with any concerns IF they pertain to your child or the majority of the student body. Keep things in an email so you have a paper trail. Attach everyone possible to the thread; superintendent, CEO of I do not know, principal, Area office, etc. Show up and show out in numbers to board meetings. Be a presence within your school so you can have first hand proof, volunteer, sit in on your students class, etc

As a teacher, you can keep documents, put the student up for needing additional services, to get tested, etc. Continue to speak with the parents of those children. Keep a log of everything. YOU are also required to go to work in a safe and healthy working environment. If it is not safe, do not return and document. Reach out to HR.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone in this thread denying the truth of these incidents is simply brain dead. If you don’t work at or have children attending the school please be quiet. The school is full of very troubled and DANGEROUS children. The soon to be ex principal has downplayed and swept everything under the rug, so much so that you people find it unfathomable for these things to be true. The email describing the knife incident was so watered down. That child had every intent to harm and has been making verbal threats as well as been involved in other physical incidents. He is troubled as needs help that the school system cannot provide, much like dozens of other students attending SCES. Hopefully the new principal will prioritize the safety of the staff and students over their own public image and the image of the school.

I have a child in this school and asked for more details above. If you have them and are not providing them, it raises questions about your motives. Please answer the request for more details.

Raise whatever questions you want about my motives that has nothing to do with me. Like I said, the email was watered down compared to the truth of the situation and the child had every intent to harm bringing the knife to school. Ask your principal if you want more details.

You claim to know and you also don’t want to say (even anonymously)! Why is that?

DP. People don’t have to share if they don’t want to. JC.

The person is criticizing parents as credulous and incapable of/unwilling to hear relevant facts. If they know relevant facts and will not disclose them, it makes me doubt their veracity generally. JC.

That is totally fine with me! You can doubt the validity of whatever you want. We are here everyday seeing it with our own eyes. It’s not my job to disclose details that’s the job of the principal and the administration team. If you need proof to validate the facts that are coming from the mouths of the people in the building with your child everyday then you can reach out to the principal. You are no one to me to demand I give details on something I’m physically experiencing every single day. Believe or don’t believe. Maybe ask your kids because I’m sure they can validate everything being said.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone in this thread denying the truth of these incidents is simply brain dead. If you don’t work at or have children attending the school please be quiet. The school is full of very troubled and DANGEROUS children. The soon to be ex principal has downplayed and swept everything under the rug, so much so that you people find it unfathomable for these things to be true. The email describing the knife incident was so watered down. That child had every intent to harm and has been making verbal threats as well as been involved in other physical incidents. He is troubled as needs help that the school system cannot provide, much like dozens of other students attending SCES. Hopefully the new principal will prioritize the safety of the staff and students over their own public image and the image of the school.