MCPS bus driver arrest

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS, the Board of Education, and the Montgomery County Council Education Committee really need to research and implement best practices for protecting children from child predators in their school system. There needs to be an audit of employment files to weed out the questionable employees BEFORE a crime is committed. If Jack Smith cannot do the job, then fire him, because these types of crimes are preventable if you put best practices in place.

If the County Council wants to throw money at the problem, they should start with mental health services for the hundreds of victims that are students in their public school system. MCPS has broken children in the worst way possible but does little to help the children recover. Special Education and counseling services including experts in trauma should be in place at school for these children who have been abused by MCPS employees.

How do you determine who is questionable if they have never been caught?

That's the point. Employees have been caught alone in vehicles and classrooms alone with students. MCPS doesn't always immediately report to CPS when these events occur and they work to silence witnesses to cover up the problem. Two known offenders are currently employed at my child's high school.

I think people are being terminating for breaking the code. A few years back, a black male coworker gave an Asian female student a ride home. He was terminated. Not warned. Not retrained. Not watched. He was gone. If he’s the only one, there’s an additional problem of profiling.

Two white male employees at Winston Churchill gave students individual rides in their cars. More than one incident for one employee. Both are still employed at Churchill.

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Child predators come in all colors. They can be spotted based on grooming behaviors used to isolate children. Being alone with a child in a vehicle should be taken seriously and would be disturbing if MCPS fails to terminate employment. MCPS should be investigated if they apply different standards of discipline based on race, gender, or any other protected status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Child predators come in all colors. They can be spotted based on grooming behaviors used to isolate children. Being alone with a child in a vehicle should be taken seriously and would be disturbing if MCPS fails to terminate employment. MCPS should be investigated if they apply different standards of discipline based on race, gender, or any other protected status.

We know different standards were applied for students. Not surprising if it extended to employees.

[Anonymous]

Superintendent Smith to Address Recent Arrest of Special Education Bus Driver August 22nd at 7 PM
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Carver Educational Services Center (CESC)
850 Hungerford Drive
Rockville, MD 20850


The meeting will be in the CESC auditorium, from 7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.

• Spanish and Sign Language interpretation is available
• If you require other interpreting services, contact Jennifer_R_Strouble@mcpsmd. org

[Anonymous]

I hope the Superintendent addresses the issue in the plural sense. How many arrests need to he made before the Superintendent makes child safety a priority and he does more to prevent child abuse by MCPS employees? Until he reacts to violations of the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct, all MCPS students are bait for the predators lurking for the opportunity to isolate a child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope the Superintendent addresses the issue in the plural sense. How many arrests need to he made before the Superintendent makes child safety a priority and he does more to prevent child abuse by MCPS employees? Until he reacts to violations of the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct, all MCPS students are bait for the predators lurking for the opportunity to isolate a child.

Arrests signal better detection and reporting are occurring.

[Anonymous]

Arrests signal a child or in some cases multiple children being sexually abused. To say that the increased arrests is enough is the same as,saying arresting school shooters after they had shot students and staff is enough action.

Security means taking steps to prevent criminal activity and proactively protecting students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arrests signal a child or in some cases multiple children being sexually abused. To say that the increased arrests is enough is the same as,saying arresting school shooters after they had shot students and staff is enough action.

Security means taking steps to prevent criminal activity and proactively protecting students.

Never said enough. Saying it’s a sign the process is working.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Arrests signal a child or in some cases multiple children being sexually abused. To say that the increased arrests is enough is the same as,saying arresting school shooters after they had shot students and staff is enough action.

Security means taking steps to prevent criminal activity and proactively protecting students.

Never said enough. Saying it’s a sign the process is working.

Another rape of a MCPS student is a sign that the system is still broken. The rape was preventable. The aide should have stayed with the bus.

For every reported case, Dr. Smith should be examining what could MCPS do to make the school system safer.

[Anonymous]

Enforcing the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct would be progress. Compliance and Dr. Smith know of many cases where serious offenses have occurred but did not fire the employee. This keeps questionable employees in contact with students.

[Anonymous]

The report of the rape wasn't the credit of MCPS. It was the student who drew a picture of the attack which prompted the bus video to be reviewed. There wouldn't probably be an arrest without the video corroborating what the student reported.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The report of the rape wasn't the credit of MCPS. It was the student who drew a picture of the attack which prompted the bus video to be reviewed. There wouldn't probably be an arrest without the video corroborating what the student reported.

Oh wow! I didn’t see that the victim drew a picture. That sounds heartbreaking. Glad that someone followed up on the picture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arrests signal a child or in some cases multiple children being sexually abused. To say that the increased arrests is enough is the same as,saying arresting school shooters after they had shot students and staff is enough action.

Security means taking steps to prevent criminal activity and proactively protecting students.

Never said enough. Saying it’s a sign the process is working.

Another rape of a MCPS student is a sign that the system is still broken. The rape was preventable. The aide should have stayed with the bus.

For every reported case, Dr. Smith should be examining what could MCPS do to make the school system safer.

How do you know he isn’t?

[Anonymous]

The school system isn't safer and students are in vehicles alone with staff. That tells me Dr. Smith is only reacting to arrests versus implementing plans to improve security for all students

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The aide had to get off the bus to assist the child. The question is why she was off the bus for so long? Also, was she routinely off the bus for a long time at that particular stop? And why didn’t she notice a hysterical child when she got back on?

Why wasn't the parent / caregiver of the child the aide was assisting near the bus. Did the bus driver literally rape the girl while the aide was right outside the door of the bus? MCPS should have policy for parents / caregivers to come to the bus to get the child so the aide stays with the bus. The bus driver should have never had the opportunity to rape a child.

Why aren’t MCPS programs for kids with significant disabilities inclusive. Every incident of child sex abuse I know about on a bus has been on a segregated bus taking kids to segregated settings away from their neighborhoods.