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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

Move to Clarksburg if you want access to their community letters

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Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

Move to Clarksburg if you want access to their community letters

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

Answers to question.
1. Yes
2. No.

Find something else to gossip about.

Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

Anonymous wrote:Did Clarksburg get a community letter? Can anyone from there post it?

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Anonymous wrote:Face injury from a fight. No weapons and they waited a while to call police/ambulance.
It’s still not ok but fights like this have been happening forever

Ambulance? The kids has to pay $2500 for non emergency transport?Were the parents notified first?

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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.

Many of us cannot get IEP's/504's with documented needs or even the most basic supports from our schools. You are living in a bubble if you think everyone is welcome and has their needs met.

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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.

This is true. I’m a teacher and my administration can never help me with anything because they are either running around putting out fires, dealing with seniors who are failing, trying to get a handle on truancy when we have no leverage on the issue, or dealing with some repeat crazy parents. And while the vast majority of parents are either completely reasonable or unfortunately completely disengaged, every school has some crazy parents who suck up everybody’s time

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.

This is true. I’m a teacher and my administration can never help me with anything because they are either running around putting out fires, dealing with seniors who are failing, trying to get a handle on truancy when we have no leverage on the issue, or dealing with some repeat crazy parents. And while the vast majority of parents are either completely reasonable or unfortunately completely disengaged, every school has some crazy parents who suck up everybody’s time

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.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are spouting misinformation about ambulance services.

In Montgomery County, residents do not pay EMT ambulance fees. Period. This became law in 2013.

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/emts/faq.html

We pay through our property taxes and our insurance being billed and we pay for our insurance. However, we should not get any extra bills to pay directly.

The previous poster said BILLED FOR AN AMBULANCE RIDE, not pennies of my property tax pay for ambulance rides. Jesus Christ, you people are ridiculous.