Reported hazing incident involving Damascus High School JV Football team

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I am a MCPS teacher. I was finger printed in 1998. They ran my background check in 1998. A lot could happen in 20 years. How many people were hired a decade ago and haven't been checked since? "

This is blatantly untrue. I have worked for more than 20 years in a nonprofit that serves children, and we do FBI and Maryland background checks. They are checked every year, and even if someone who worked for us 15 years ago and hasn't since, commits a crime, I am notified. The check isn't one and done, it is ongoing forever.

You don't work for MCPS, how can you say what is true? The MCPS teacher is telling the truth. They were finger printed at hire. Period. That was it. What happened at your nonprofit has nothing to do with MCPS.

Your fingerprints don't change. They only need to do that once, and then they can run you through the system whenever they want or the can set it to alert you if there is a flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I am a MCPS teacher. I was finger printed in 1998. They ran my background check in 1998. A lot could happen in 20 years. How many people were hired a decade ago and haven't been checked since? "

This is blatantly untrue. I have worked for more than 20 years in a nonprofit that serves children, and we do FBI and Maryland background checks. They are checked every year, and even if someone who worked for us 15 years ago and hasn't since, commits a crime, I am notified. The check isn't one and done, it is ongoing forever.

You don't work for MCPS, how can you say what is true? The MCPS teacher is telling the truth. They were finger printed at hire. Period. That was it. What happened at your nonprofit has nothing to do with MCPS.

Your fingerprints don't change. They only need to do that once, and then they can run you through the system whenever they want or the can set it to alert you if there is a flag.

Unless, of course, they lose the paperwork or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I am a MCPS teacher. I was finger printed in 1998. They ran my background check in 1998. A lot could happen in 20 years. How many people were hired a decade ago and haven't been checked since? "

This is blatantly untrue. I have worked for more than 20 years in a nonprofit that serves children, and we do FBI and Maryland background checks. They are checked every year, and even if someone who worked for us 15 years ago and hasn't since, commits a crime, I am notified. The check isn't one and done, it is ongoing forever.

You don't work for MCPS, how can you say what is true? The MCPS teacher is telling the truth. They were finger printed at hire. Period. That was it. What happened at your nonprofit has nothing to do with MCPS.

Your fingerprints don't change. They only need to do that once, and then they can run you through the system whenever they want or the can set it to alert you if there is a flag.

Unless, of course, they lose the paperwork or something.

It's digital, these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"I am a MCPS teacher. I was finger printed in 1998. They ran my background check in 1998. A lot could happen in 20 years. How many people were hired a decade ago and haven't been checked since? "

This is blatantly untrue. I have worked for more than 20 years in a nonprofit that serves children, and we do FBI and Maryland background checks. They are checked every year, and even if someone who worked for us 15 years ago and hasn't since, commits a crime, I am notified. The check isn't one and done, it is ongoing forever.

You don't work for MCPS, how can you say what is true? The MCPS teacher is telling the truth. They were finger printed at hire. Period. That was it. What happened at your nonprofit has nothing to do with MCPS.

Your fingerprints don't change. They only need to do that once, and then they can run you through the system whenever they want or the can set it to alert you if there is a flag.

Unless, of course, they lose the paperwork or something.

It's digital, these days.

It wasn't digital 20 years ago. Everyone is being refingerprinted to have current records. I concer once MCPS has digital prints, they can do the background checks at anytime and they should randomly do so. I don't know if the leaders in M PS know this or if it's the lack of assigning someone the responsibility for doing so. MCPS just assumes employees will notify them of their arrests because it's a rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The police report apparently says that there were people who knew this to be a regular thing. The whole Damascus football program should be suspended until there's been a complete investigation. The varsity team shouldn't have played last Friday, and they certainly shouldn't play the rest of their season.

Has the police report been made public? If not, how do you know what it says?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police report apparently says that there were people who knew this to be a regular thing. The whole Damascus football program should be suspended until there's been a complete investigation. The varsity team shouldn't have played last Friday, and they certainly shouldn't play the rest of their season.

Has the police report been made public? If not, how do you know what it says?

There's a story in today's Washington Post.

[Anonymous]

Fox reported that it was similar to the rape scene in Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why.

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/alleged-violent-sexual-assault-at-damascus-high-compared-to-graphic-scene-in-thirteen-reasons-why

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police report apparently says that there were people who knew this to be a regular thing. The whole Damascus football program should be suspended until there's been a complete investigation. The varsity team shouldn't have played last Friday, and they certainly shouldn't play the rest of their season.

Has the police report been made public? If not, how do you know what it says?

There's a story in today's Washington Post.

TRIGGER WARNING - this is pretty awful

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/stopstop-stop-police-report-describes-alleged-sex-assaults-in-jv-football-locker-room/2018/11/06/b7cfb75c-e1de-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html?utm_term=.be5ab033c84b

[Anonymous]

The victims

previously had heard about broomstick attacks but were uncertain about whether the accounts were genuine.

One of the boys allegedly attacked “reported that when he was in middle school, he heard about ‘brooming,’ but thought that it was a myth,” Williams wrote. Then the teenager was attacked, the report states, and he pleaded with teammates to stop, but they told him it was a “tradition.”

This is why the whole program needs to be suspended.

[Anonymous]

they need to look into staff on student bullying and staff on staff bullying. The culture is rotten to the core. Kids have been traumatized, and staff have been traumatized too. The people at the top need to know there’s a culture of this crap. I feel sick after reading that article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The victims

previously had heard about broomstick attacks but were uncertain about whether the accounts were genuine.

One of the boys allegedly attacked “reported that when he was in middle school, he heard about ‘brooming,’ but thought that it was a myth,” Williams wrote. Then the teenager was attacked, the report states, and he pleaded with teammates to stop, but they told him it was a “tradition.”

This is why the whole program needs to be suspended.

Agree.

At the very least, football needs to be suspended at the school. How can the school and MCPS defend such inaction?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like the police to investigate the parents of the perpetrators. This abuse and behavior can only come from home.

At least one of the rapists said it happened to him.

[Anonymous]

Instead of actually implementing some serious consequences, MCPS puts out a video. That is NOT an adequate response, Jack Smith and Derek Turner.

These were 15 year old boys who were victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like the police to investigate the parents of the perpetrators. This abuse and behavior can only come from home.

At least one of the rapists said it happened to him.

Happened to him, from other students (behavior did not come from home). This is a school/student body issue.

I cannot stop thinking about these boys after reading WaPo's article. I am sick to my stomach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:they need to look into staff on student bullying and staff on staff bullying. The culture is rotten to the core. Kids have been traumatized, and staff have been traumatized too. The people at the top need to know there’s a culture of this crap. I feel sick after reading that article.

Kevin Lewis with ABC7 broke the story with the Damascus JV Football team. Perhaps contact him or the Washington Post if you have specific information that will help the media shed some light on the culture of coverup in MCPS when it comes to bullying, harassment, hazing, and abuse in MCPS. Until the media reports, Dr. Smith does nothing to fix problems in schools. It's like he is on another planet and indifferent to the rotten culture within the schools he id Superintendent for.