Blair Magnet Sexism

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People came forward for YEARS at Blair. Why MCPS would ignore the complaints and let a teacher like that be on staff really shows how little they care about the children in their schools. Shame on MCPS. People still working with MCPS who dropped the ball should be fired.

Agree 100%

Here is info on what changes some are pushing for.

From: jennifer alvaro <xxxxxxxxx>
To: Jack Smith <[e-mail]>
Cc: of Education MCPS <[e-mail]>; [e-mail] <[e-mail]>; [e-mail] <[e-mail]>; Jill Ortman-fouse <[e-mail]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 8:18:54 AM EDT
Subject: Urgent Changes Needed regarding MCPS and Child Abuse

Good Morning Dr. Smith,

In a recent Washington Post article regarding the long standing sexual harassment of students by a math teacher at Blair high school, your spokesperson stated MCPS found the allegations credible.

He went on to state the following, "One of the things we’re trying to figure out is: How did we get here? Where could we have made a better decision or taken more action?” spokesman Derek Turner said. “We want to know how to prevent this from ever happening again.”

To those of us who have been bringing these issues to your attention and in fact, the attention of the school system for 6 years now, reading that statement was a sad confirmation. A confirmation the schools are still grossly mishandling this entire issue. A confirmation you are still leaving children in danger. This is not an accusation or speculation. One only has to read recent headlines to see what is occurring.

A couple weeks ago, Jill Ortman-Fouse informed me she spoke to you about my concerns and you had instructed staff to "analyse" what had gone on. I'm not quite clear on what that means so I took the opportunity to draft some recommendations for what the school system should be doing.

I've attached 10 recommendations for you, the BOE, the county council and Ike Leggett to review.

I would appreciate a timely response.

As always, please feel free to email or call me should you have any questions.

Thank you,

Jennifer Alvaro

Link to recommendations here:
https://www.jenniferalvaro.com/uploads/2/6/7/2/267...anges_needed_by_mcps__2018.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disgraceful. You’d think that especially with the magnet at Blair being so small to begin with, something like this shouldn’t have been ignored for so long.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/in-a-prestigious-high-school-math-and-science-program-alumni-say-metoo/2018/03/01/b17f68ac-f1b6-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.c21aecdc9885

It's 2018 and MCPS is covering up a similar situation at Churchill on the Outdoor Track Team. It is disgraceful.