Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

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Anonymous wrote:My freshman leaves at least 3x a week and I don’t care. They eat at chipotle, panera, moby dicks, or Starbucks. All better than the over packed cafeteria.

Not everyone can afford that. Your kid is fortunate.

Ok but it’s good for many kids mental health to NOT be in the cafeteria and get outside

They can do that without $10-15 lunches daily. My kids pack lunch and never have been into the cafeteria.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

What if these things happen (and they do happen) on the way to school or on the way home from school?

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

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Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

did you email her parents? or just post here instead?

Anonymous wrote:Teacher here. I’m stunned that so many parents think an open lunch is the answer.

High school students are (mostly for those who are not repeaters) still minors. MCPS had a responsibility to keep these kids safe. If they leave for lunch and get hit by a car, robbed, or get themselves into any other unthinkable situation, we CANNOT keep them safe.

The only real solutions are…
1) structuring the school day so campuses with 2000+ kids have A, B or C lunch
2) teaching your kids to respect adults and the importance of fiscal and health responsibility.

I want to know how parents are ok with funding $10+ lunches every day and accepting the health concerns that come with eating fast food for every meal. Parents need to teach their kids how to prepare food ahead of time — this is an important life skill.

Also. Parents need to hold the standard at home when it comes to listening to (gasp) authority. Americans are so afraid of holding people accountable. Literally had a 9th grader look me in the eyes and blow me off when I asked her why she was leaving school (in the middle of 2nd period). Rolled her eyes and walked right out the main doors.

Parents should be ashamed of the individuals they are raising.

Anonymous wrote:Again you sound crazy but I will agree that kids being out of school is exactly why there is a rise in crime. When schools shut down in 2020 there were kids who were barely hanging on then. Those kids did not come back ....EVER. They are the ones robbing stores, carjacking and joyriding now at the age of 16 17 etc. Direct result of shutting down schools.

Open lunch though has nothing to do with this. A kid can skip a class and get out anyway. You haven't brought up your daughter in any of your posts in a while. Does she even exist or are you really the lady from that website that blames MCPS for everything?

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Anonymous wrote:I see so many kids around Blair during lunch. Why not just make it an open lunch? What’s the point if it’s not enforced?

This is the crazy thing about MCPS. They want to look like they're doing the right thing, by saying they have closed campus lunches for student safety, but then refuse to invest the necessary resources, protocols and enforcements to make what they say they do on paper actually be true.

I agree with you. If MCPS actually has no intention of ever honoring its closed lunch policy, then they should just drop the farce of claiming to have a closed campus. It's ridiculous.

I don’t know if there is an “MCPS Policy”, as there are schools with open lunch. WJ is wide open, for all grades. They cannot possibly service the student body in the cafeteria as things are now. Can anyone chime in what Blair’s actual policy is?

Poolesville also has open lunch for all grades.

But that's probably because it's 20+ miles to the closest fast-food that nobody would use it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don't you tell your kid they are not allowed to leave campus. Unbelievable that you can find a way to blame the school for this.

Seriously I can’t believe that if as a parent you care that you can’t figure out how to enforce it. I mean tell them no. If they do it, take aware their source of funds, take the phone, ground them. Whatever.

Taking their phone away for leaving campus is punishing them after the fact. It is not enforcing the school’s supposed closed campus policy.

Again, only the school can enforce that. Parents are not in the building.

OP you seem outrageous. Plenty of things in the world that can be blamed on failed leadership. This is failed parenting nothing to do with leadership. Punishing them after the fact as you say should be enough to deter them from doing it again. If it is not then that is your problem.

You must be MCPS admin. You can keep denying MCPS has liability and obligation to uphold and enforce its policies if you want to. MCPS, and we the taxpayers, keep paying out judgements where judges and juries disagree with you and say MCPS has a duty to actually do what it says it will do.

You should quit education. It’s not for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don't you tell your kid they are not allowed to leave campus. Unbelievable that you can find a way to blame the school for this.

Seriously I can’t believe that if as a parent you care that you can’t figure out how to enforce it. I mean tell them no. If they do it, take aware their source of funds, take the phone, ground them. Whatever.

Taking their phone away for leaving campus is punishing them after the fact. It is not enforcing the school’s supposed closed campus policy.

Again, only the school can enforce that. Parents are not in the building.

OP you seem outrageous. Plenty of things in the world that can be blamed on failed leadership. This is failed parenting nothing to do with leadership. Punishing them after the fact as you say should be enough to deter them from doing it again. If it is not then that is your problem.

You must be MCPS admin. You can keep denying MCPS has liability and obligation to uphold and enforce its policies if you want to. MCPS, and we the taxpayers, keep paying out judgements where judges and juries disagree with you and say MCPS has a duty to actually do what it says it will do.

You should quit education. It’s not for you.

Wrong - just a parent that thinks this is crazy. Also, I am not the only one responding to you. I am beginning to think you are that lady that runs that website that wants MCPS liable for everything so every morning you wake up and think of something new. Turf, closed lunch, etc. I understand MCPS has issues but this is not one of them.

Tell that to the DoorDash driver who had a gun shoved in her mouth by B-CC kids who were out and about in the community during lunch just a few weeks ago.

You’re in denial and refuse to engage with the real harm and risk that comes from not enforcing this policy. Why you are doing so, only you know.

So, your theory is that open lunch in Bethesda is why the carjacking happened in Wheaton?

That's just silly.

Open lunch IS why kids who otherwise would have been in the school building and not available to roam the streets and assault someone were able to do so. Yes. That is not a leap in logic. Which is why revoking open lunch privileges is a disciplinary measures schools take because it’s a privilege based on trust and meeting expectations.

If B-CC had a closed lunch policy that the school actively monitored and enforced, those kids would not have been able to do what they did when they did it. There is no doubt about that.

If you followed the conversation around juvenile crime, one of the main things contributing to the increase in juvenile crime is kids not being in school when they should be. But you don’t care about that because you don’t care about the youth or the community.

You just want to absolve MCPS of any and all responsibility for the care and wellbeing of students while they are in the school building for reasons known only to you.