MCPS Has No Formal Policy on Motorized Room Partitions

MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Total number of motorized partitions: 82

No written policy.

After a 9-year-old boy was crushed to death by a motorized room partition in his Northern Virginia school this spring, a News4 consumer investigation found that nearly 500 of the partitions are located in schools in the D.C. area.

Of the 21 school districts that have the powerful devices, 17 districts had no formal, written policies on who is allowed to operate them...

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