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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Have You Weighed In On Underage Drinking?

Votes are split are split among Patch users on whether underage drinking parties are a problem in Montgomery County.

Montgomery County Patch readers are split on the issue of underage drinking and how alcohol laws should be enforced—or not. In an article last week, which discussed what appears to be a growing trend of underage drinking parties hosted by parents, we asked users what they thought of the problem. Our poll asking if users thought parent-hosted underage alcohol parties were a problem in the area was split nearly 50/50. Forty-seven percent of responders said they knew of at least one parent-hosted underage drinking party, while 48 percent of responders said they weren't aware of such parties being a problem. In the comments, parents, grandparents, teachers and Patch editors weighed in with their opinions. Most agreed that the issue is a flawed…

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Patch Asks: Are Underage Drinking Parties a Problem in Montgomery County?

Sharon

5:56 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2012

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/190992/373/Underage-And-Intoxicated   more ›

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

County Wants Police Officers Back in Schools

Montgomery County residents and officials are advocating the return of a full school resource officer program in Montgomery County schools to help with preventative public safety.

Montgomery County officials, police and parents are hopeful that the fiscal 2013 operating budget will allow the county to increase police staffing where they say it could have the greatest impact on public safety: in public schools. "Many of our high schools are virtual cities, many with over 2,000 students and hundreds of staff per school," said Susan Burkinshaw, an advocate of the school resource officer program and co-chair of the Safety and Health Committee of the county council of PTAs. "We don’t need officers in our schools because our schools are not safe; we need officers in our schools to keep our schools and communities safe." With recent budget cuts, school resource officers—traditionally a police officer stationed within high …

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Gaithersburg High School (in Gaithersburg Patch)

B Allen

10:09 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

So now those knuckleheads in the county council and exec office want to take police from writing tickets and increasing the revenues for the county and have them visit the schools? So that is why they are spending our hard earned tax dollars on more speed cameras...and tleggett and the council members think they are clever, they are just a bunch of scum sucking bottom feeders and think that the …   more ›

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