Understood. I hope one victim near retirement age will come forward, sue MCPS, depose all the people involved, win a big jury award, and retire happily in a better place. |
MCPS Paid Beidleman’s Defense Attorneys $68,369.64
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/07/11/mcps-paid-beidlemans-defense-attorneys/ |
Wow |
Adam Pagnucco is doing good work. WaPo should've been following this thread since they broke the story. |
Wow. Does anyone with an understanding of either employment or union law want to weigh in.
Were they obligated to pay his fees by union regulations, maybe? That sounds far-fetched but I don't know why else they would be on the hook. |
The union wouldn’t pay legal fees for his victims. New super needs to give answers ASAP about this. Fatquhar teachers deserve to know the truth about how their employer protected this predator. |
Principals are in a different union than teachers. |
Yes. Adam looked further into the MCAAP contract language: https://montgomeryperspective.com/2024/07/12/mcps-administrators-fully-indemnified-from-legal-costs/ |
Yup. I figured this had to do with MCAAP and its contract. While people often fault the MCEA as being the downfall of MCPS and being the most powerful union in the system, it's really MCAAP that holds the most cards and influences. Principals are kings and queens of their respective school communities with an alarming amount of unchecked power to do or not do whatever they want. It's scary. |
All of you paid Mr. Bs legal fees. Now that’s funny 😂 |
You mean kids paid. Yes, very funny that kids were punished by loss of teachers. |
Kids don't pay taxes. Their parents do. |
There should be a denial for legal financial protection when the principal is found to be acting with moral turpitude. |
They paid with the loss of their education. |
So the teacher that sued him paid Mr.Bs legal fees too!!! $300k minus… After paying for lawyers for herself and Mr. B she was left with chump change. |