Head of School at National Child Research Center (NCRC) - Arrest warrant issued

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Anonymous wrote:His colleague placed cameras in the bathrooms at BVR. Are you ok with that, PP?

Of course I'm not! But that was his colleague 15 years ago. And if he did it now, the sweep would find them. What Toth did at Beauvoir long ago is not a reason not to send a child to NCRC today. What whacko logic.

What makes you so confident that there are no cameras in the school today? Esp. In the bathrooms?

IF they have done a sweep, I would trust that. And you'll have a fit over this, but, honestly, to me that sort of camera is smoke, not the fire -- a child would likely never know the difference is they are filmed. There could be video taken surreptiously of any of us or our children out there on the Internet and we don't know.

I feel so badly for your children

Different poster. She’s right that it can happen to anyone, anywhere. I saw a story about hidden cameras in hotel rooms.
What do you do? Remove your kid from every school where this may have happened? It can happen with coaches. Stop letting your kids play sports now. It can happen anywhere and I’m sure Ncrc is crushed by this but what more can the parents do? It can happen at any school, as evil people are everywhere.

This problem is handled swiftly in public schools in our region, not covered up as in this and the colleague’s case. There are protocols that all certified teachers and administrators must follow which is why you see stories in the press when predators are outed. It doesn’t take over a decade.

What knowledge do you have a cover up? What protocols do you think weren't followed? This case is bad enough without people chiming in with accusations based on conspiracy theories. I've worked in both independent schools and public schools, and if you think the public schools have some magic protocols that mean they are more likely to identify people like Carroll much sooner, you are very naive.

Case in point LAMB charter school in DC. Admin and parent board failure to act when issues were brought to their attention. I have no idea about BVR and NCRC but time will tell. With LAMB it was staff telling admin and board about what they were seeing and a complete failure to act by them.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't get why men are appointed head of preschools. It is a job that is almost exclusively done by women. I would never want my kids to have male preschool teachers either.

What a despicable thing to say. What Carroll is described as doing is disgusting and incomprehensible. But not all male educators and heads of preschools are evil. That’s just a rotten thing to put online.

93% of abusers are men so please keep your comment for yourself! It is absolutely right to question if men have their place in a school when you know the stats.

I really get sick of people who don’t understand how numbers work.

Sure, if 93% of abusers are men, that’s really lopsided. However, what percent of male educators are abusers?

Fact: A shocking percentage of the male employees at NCRC/BVR are abusers

NCRC has long had a good complement of male teachers, and they have mostly been excellent and it is great for students of all ages to have both male and female teachers. Zero (!) male teachers at NCRC who have been accused, much less found guilty, of abuse.

We now know one administrator guilty of horrible online crimes.

How many male educators has NCRC had over the years? What percentage is Carroll of them? I don't think you really have any idea.

Little Folks also has a male HoS, and he has a stellar reputation. So do their other male staff members.

The board at NCRC clearly effed up by hiring this guy, but the problem isn’t the existence of male preschool teachers.

Thank you. I agree 100 percent. I also know the HOS at little folks and he’s phenomenal and a fantastic role model

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I see no credible reports regarding Carroll’s legal representation. It is simply not believable that a HOS earning multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in annual income would be represented by a public defender in federal criminal court as a PP posted erroneously.

I'm that PP. Not erroneous. The Court's docket is clear. He made an oral motion to appoint counsel. That motion was granted and he is currently represented by the Federal Public Defender's Office. I don't know his financial situation, do you? He will have to fill out a financial affidavit (if he hasn't already). And if I were his wife, I would be transferring all of our money from any joint account into an account in my name alone - which would be my prerogative as a joint accountholder.

They were being evicted from their rented house. They must not be able to afford a lawyer.

how do you know this?

Court records, discussed a few pages back.

I don't remember reading that they were being evicted in the court records--is this correct?

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t sleep after reading all the docs. We live in the neighborhood and witnessed journalists and reporters outside all morning. How were parents able to send their kids to school today after this disturbing news? Why has this become so normalized - that children and staff are expected to return and carry on as normal the following day. What is this area turning into

It feels cruel to judge the parents here who are just trying to navigate an extremely tough and complex situation. Some people may not have had a choice to pull their kid out of school. Some may have thought continuity was the best for them. Regardless it is none of our business. Personally, I will save all my judgment and anger for James Carroll.

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Not a parent of a child in this school but I don’t understand the lashing out/judging of parents and teachers at NCRC when they are in no way responsible for James Carrol’s deranged online behavior.

Parents are expected to protect their children at all costs. That’s the reality. You don’t get a pass. You have the be constantly vigilant.

And having a male head of the school and several male teachers should have been a warning sign! But most parents would be too embarrassed to listen to their own gut and just went with the crowd in the hopes Thai was their child’s first step to Harvard.

This.

About 13 years ago, my second grader at one of these "prestigious" DC schools was struggling and his male teacher recommended after-school sessions together. He seemed like a lovely man, but when I inquired who else would be in the room with them, I was met with such disdain by the lower school head. As if it was so offensive for me to ask. I said, sorry, my son is not to be alone, in a room, with an adult I barely know. The agreement was they would sit at a table right inside the door, with the door open. I just don't think I was wrong, and I was shocked that the admin at this very "well-known, highly regarded N-8" was so aghast at my concern.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't get why men are appointed head of preschools. It is a job that is almost exclusively done by women. I would never want my kids to have male preschool teachers either.

What a despicable thing to say. What Carroll is described as doing is disgusting and incomprehensible. But not all male educators and heads of preschools are evil. That’s just a rotten thing to put online.

93% of abusers are men so please keep your comment for yourself! It is absolutely right to question if men have their place in a school when you know the stats.

I really get sick of people who don’t understand how numbers work.

Sure, if 93% of abusers are men, that’s really lopsided. However, what percent of male educators are abusers?

Fact: A shocking percentage of the male employees at NCRC/BVR are abusers

NCRC has long had a good complement of male teachers, and they have mostly been excellent and it is great for students of all ages to have both male and female teachers. Zero (!) male teachers at NCRC who have been accused, much less found guilty, of abuse.

We now know one administrator guilty of horrible online crimes.

How many male educators has NCRC had over the years? What percentage is Carroll of them? I don't think you really have any idea.

Agree. In 97 years, they have an outstanding reputation and as tragic as this is to act like they are a breeding ground for pedos is insane. It could happen anywhere. If sexual assault happens on a college campus will you transfer your child each time. Unfortunately, evil people are everywhere.

News Flash: Criminal deviants feel more comfortable and welcomed at some schools more than other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Couldn’t sleep after reading all the docs. We live in the neighborhood and witnessed journalists and reporters outside all morning. How were parents able to send their kids to school today after this disturbing news? Why has this become so normalized - that children and staff are expected to return and carry on as normal the following day. What is this area turning into

It feels cruel to judge the parents here who are just trying to navigate an extremely tough and complex situation. Some people may not have had a choice to pull their kid out of school. Some may have thought continuity was the best for them. Regardless it is none of our business. Personally, I will save all my judgment and anger for James Carroll.

If you are paying $40,000 for prek, you have choices.

I also wonder why a parent who had choices would willingly send their child to a preschool that is run by a man? Especially when they get “bad vibes” from said man! Have we lost all common sense?

It’s just bizarre how desperate parents are to get their child into certain schools. For what?

Lots of schools, including preschool programs, are run by men. And heads of schools or school divisions have a lot less day to day contact with students than teachers do.

In the United States, men comprise 2-5% of the preschool teachers.

Approximately 90% of reported child sexual abuse involve men.

Having a man heavily involved in a preschool is not the norm!

It's really not. I have never felt comfortable with the male teachers in my children's younger grades. Something just doesn't sit right about a man wanting to be around such young children. But, we have thrown biology out the window these days, so who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:The reach of this is overwhelming and heartbreaking, touching almost every corner of the DC private school community. Through Carroll’s roles in multiple schools, and countless connections, the impact is staggering. Even families who never interacted with him directly feel the ripple effects through shared friendships and experiences.

This should force a hard look at the community’s insularity and the role parents play. By sending children to schools where abuse is known to have occurred, parents become complicit in perpetuating harm. The desire to protect reputations, traditions, or their own convenience cannot come before protecting children. Real change requires breaking the silence and demanding accountability from these institutions and from ourselves.

I disagree. In my wildest dreams I did not think that another pedophile teacher would exist at BVR. I mean what are the odds? If anything maybe some parents thought that since it happened once the odds of lightening striking twice in the same place meant they were safe. Unfortunately this could happen anywhere. Just because it’s an elite private school you can’t accuse them of covering up or intentionally hiring pedophiles.

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We need to normalize or preempt the ask. I’ve always been too nervous to ask if the door is closed when my DD gets invited to the male counselor’s office for lunch. Too nervous to ask if the male teacher at preschool changed my DD’s clothes after an accident.

I never had reason to believe there was a problem but I wished I just knew the norms and that the (private) school was straight with me from the onset. Send out their policies so no one has to fear judgment or retribution for asking.

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I really get sick of people who don’t understand how numbers work.

Sure, if 93% of abusers are men, that’s really lopsided. However, what percent of male educators are abusers?

Fact: A shocking percentage of the male employees at NCRC/BVR are abusers

The fact that men represent a much smaller share of teachers but are the overwhelming majority of abusers suggests that the probability of a male educator being an abuser is significantly higher than a female educator being an abuser. That was the point being made.

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Anonymous wrote:I just don't get why men are appointed head of preschools. It is a job that is almost exclusively done by women. I would never want my kids to have male preschool teachers either.

What a despicable thing to say. What Carroll is described as doing is disgusting and incomprehensible. But not all male educators and heads of preschools are evil. That’s just a rotten thing to put online.

93% of abusers are men so please keep your comment for yourself! It is absolutely right to question if men have their place in a school when you know the stats.

I really get sick of people who don’t understand how numbers work.

Sure, if 93% of abusers are men, that’s really lopsided. However, what percent of male educators are abusers?

Fact: A shocking percentage of the male employees at NCRC/BVR are abusers

NCRC has long had a good complement of male teachers, and they have mostly been excellent and it is great for students of all ages to have both male and female teachers. Zero (!) male teachers at NCRC who have been accused, much less found guilty, of abuse.

We now know one administrator guilty of horrible online crimes.

How many male educators has NCRC had over the years? What percentage is Carroll of them? I don't think you really have any idea.

Little Folks also has a male HoS, and he has a stellar reputation. So do their other male staff members.

The board at NCRC clearly effed up by hiring this guy, but the problem isn’t the existence of male preschool teachers.

How many perverted female preschool teachers do you know?

Pedos are extremely rare. Though they do gravitate toward roles where they’re in proximity to children.

That said, I know 0 pedos either male or female.

But, I did notice when that lady from Richmond was busted at a hotel, no one was screaming mothers shouldn’t be allowed to travel with their kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I see no credible reports regarding Carroll’s legal representation. It is simply not believable that a HOS earning multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in annual income would be represented by a public defender in federal criminal court as a PP posted erroneously.

I'm that PP. Not erroneous. The Court's docket is clear. He made an oral motion to appoint counsel. That motion was granted and he is currently represented by the Federal Public Defender's Office. I don't know his financial situation, do you? He will have to fill out a financial affidavit (if he hasn't already). And if I were his wife, I would be transferring all of our money from any joint account into an account in my name alone - which would be my prerogative as a joint accountholder.

They were being evicted from their rented house. They must not be able to afford a lawyer.

how do you know this?

Court records, discussed a few pages back.

I don't remember reading that they were being evicted in the court records--is this correct?

Landlord tenant court records, again, discussed upthread.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, I see no credible reports regarding Carroll’s legal representation. It is simply not believable that a HOS earning multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in annual income would be represented by a public defender in federal criminal court as a PP posted erroneously.

I'm that PP. Not erroneous. The Court's docket is clear. He made an oral motion to appoint counsel. That motion was granted and he is currently represented by the Federal Public Defender's Office. I don't know his financial situation, do you? He will have to fill out a financial affidavit (if he hasn't already). And if I were his wife, I would be transferring all of our money from any joint account into an account in my name alone - which would be my prerogative as a joint accountholder.

They were being evicted from their rented house. They must not be able to afford a lawyer.

how do you know this?

Court records, discussed a few pages back.

didn't see this record posted, just mentioned so that is why I was asking.

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Anonymous wrote:We need to normalize or preempt the ask. I’ve always been too nervous to ask if the door is closed when my DD gets invited to the male counselor’s office for lunch. Too nervous to ask if the male teacher at preschool changed my DD’s clothes after an accident.

I never had reason to believe there was a problem but I wished I just knew the norms and that the (private) school was straight with me from the onset. Send out their policies so no one has to fear judgment or retribution for asking.

Well, good luck trying to normalize conversations where you’re asking schools to institute sexist policies where men have different requirements based on their gender. That should go well. Check back in here with what you learn.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m about 20 posts behind but pretty outraged by the posters saying “how could Beauvoir have known”. Maybe you are not aware of the fact alleged in the case that he posted a photo of naked 8 year old boys that was traced back to a BVR IP address. So maybe the first thing BVR could do is be aware of when a staff member is trafficking child porn while at work. This activity can be tracked by an employer who wants to know, especially maybe an employer who just recently fired another teacher for sex abuse. How incredibly irresponsible of them!

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And if anyone knows James you knew he had a super odd and distant demeanor. Never thought this was possible in a million years but he was not close to families, not warm, not social, never asked anyone any personal info about themselves and that was to parents - so I hope former colleagues at both schools start speaking out. Because my mom brain hasn’t shut off the last 48 hours due to the fact I thought something was off about him and I didn’t sit in an office with him for decades

I don’t understand how someone who has this demeanor would be hired even initially by Beauvoir? My husband is European and jokes that Americans think anyone with a European accent is refined and more skilled than they are. Other than the accent and working at a mediocre Uk primary school, what did he have going for him? I know his wife was an alum, but I still don’t understand how he would have been hired when multiple people describe him similarly

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He could offer “expertise” that most other HOS candidates don’t offer. It’s in the press release from DOJ.

My hunch is this means he was the best candidate (at the time) to ensure outplacement to the best feeder schools in DC.

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You get how inherently offensive that would be considered if a particular race or ethnicity were subbed for “men,” right?

Like if a school only had a small number of minority hires, and two of them ended up committing crimes, does that mean that they shouldn’t hire minorities? Does it rationalize whatever hiring practices prevented them from hiring a representative number of minorities to begin with?

Just because the word is “men” doesn’t make sexist generalizations appropriate.

Women are more likely to get pregnant and miss work, disrupting the valuable relationship with young kids who bond with them in preschool. Should they therefore not hire women?