MCPS Revamping How it Addresses Hate-Bias Incidents

Board of Education members spent two hours Tuesday discussing how better to handle, and prevent, hate-bias incidents.

So far this school year, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) received almost three reports of hate-bias incidents every day. As of March 6, there were 337 incidents reported, of which 60% were racial, 30% were religious and 10% involved the LGBTQ community.

While stating these statics, school administrators stressed that many bias incidents go unreported...

https://www.mymcmedia.org/mcps-revamping-how-it-addresses-hate-bias-incidents/

Breaking: BCC High School Teacher sues BCC Principal and Board of Education for Defamation @mcps @mocoboe

The BCC student newspaper The Tattler first reported about the potential for this lawsuit to be filed in March of this year.

The Complaint has now been filed and is shown below. 

Note item #133 in the Complaint states:

133. As a result, and in retaliation for the newspaper’s critical coverage of Mooney’s mishandling of numerous issues over the past academic year, on or about June 1, 2023, Mooney relieved the newspaper’s faculty advisor of her position. 

Also see #171 - 178 titled Administrative Proceedings which discusses the MCPS internal administrative processes.  

 

The full text of the Complaint as filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court on August 21, 2023, is shown below and at the Scribd link.

Daniel Engler Complaint Against Shelton Mooney and Montgomery County BOE by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

‘Hate-based’ graffiti found at Montgomery Co. school

Police in Montgomery County are investigating who posted “hate-based vandalism” on the Wilson Wims Elementary School in Clarksburg, Maryland.

A school employee discovered “racially-themed words” were spray-painted into a sidewalk near the side of the school on Thursday, June 18, according to a Montgomery County Department of Police statement...

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2020/06/hate-based-graffiti-found-at-montgomery-co-school/

MCPS Shows Significant Increase in Reported Hate Incidents Since 2014

ICYMI: @mcps data shows significant increase in reported #hate incidents since 2014. @PCMC1 @MontgomeryCoMD data here:  https://t.co/8EPyO46d6j @fox5dc

— Melanie Alnwick (@fox5melanie) April 30, 2019

Publc School Arrests 10 year old with Autism for Acting Out. Child handcuffed, spends night in detention. #publicschool failure

A Florida mother filmed the arrest of her 10-year-old son as school resource deputies handcuffed him and took him away.
The boy, who has autism, is accused of battery of a school employee in Okeechobee County because he kicked a teacher last November. The offense is a third-degree felony.
His mother Luanne Haygood said her son shouldn’t have been arrested for the incident.
“It was because of his autism that spurred this incident,” Haygood told WPTV. “And he was arrested for that.”
In the video, which Haygood recorded on her cell phone, her son John Benji Haygood is heard as officers place handcuffs on his wrists.
“I don’t want to be touched. Please don’t touch me,” the boy says in the video. “I don’t know what’s going on.”
Not wanting to be touched can be a symptom of autism, according to Autism Speaks.
Haygood said watching her son be cuffed and put in a law enforcement vehicle “broke her heart.” She said the 10-year-old boy then spent the night at a juvenile facility in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Although the incident took place last year, deputies said they couldn’t serve the arrest paperwork until last week.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article145281069.html

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article145281069.html#storylink=cpy

 and first court appearance

http://www.wpbf.com/article/child-with-autism-arrested-in-okeechobee/9269563