WaPo: FCPS let felons slip through the cracks and into the ranks

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-schools-finds-seven-felons-among-employees-including-heroin-smuggler/2014/01/27/e76b0612-8791-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html

Oops.

No crimes against children, though.

And, how dumb do you have to be to ask if your felony conviction is what's holding up your promotion?

[Anonymous]

I don't know that I agree that someone with a felony conviction should be barred for life from employment with the school system. How are people supposed to be reintegrated in society if they can't get a job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know that I agree that someone with a felony conviction should be barred for life from employment with the school system. How are people supposed to be reintegrated in society if they can't get a job?

If she has been working for FCPS for 7 years and was eligible to be promoted up to an administrative position she must have been doing a pretty good job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-schools-finds-seven-felons-among-employees-including-heroin-smuggler/2014/01/27/e76b0612-8791-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html

Oops.

No crimes against children, though.

And, how dumb do you have to be to ask if your felony conviction is what's holding up your promotion?

She wasn't dumb for asking. She was honest on her application and assumed she wasn't hiding anything and that the person she was talking to already knew. She was dumb for committing the felony in the first place, but I'm sure even she would admit that. While I'm not sure someone with a conviction related to drug trafficking should be teaching in a high school, since the administrators admit that she was respected in the school they could have handle the situation better by not publicly humiliating someone doing a good job of turning her life around, especially since it was their mistake for hiring her despite her full disclosure.

[Anonymous]

She was convited for drug trafficing.....I don't care how good a job she was doing she should not be in the public school system.

[Anonymous]

She was convited for drug trafficing.....I don't care how good a job she was doing she should not be in the public school system.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was convited for drug trafficing.....I don't care how good a job she was doing she should not be in the public school system.

What kind of jobs do you think she deserve? Where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know that I agree that someone with a felony conviction should be barred for life from employment with the school system. How are people supposed to be reintegrated in society if they can't get a job?

my first thought as well. The one employee with the felony drug trafficking conviction did not lie on her application, has done a good job. The offense is not against children. I don't see why they need to boot her.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe it took them this damn long to figure this out. WTF, Fairfax?

[Anonymous]

when did the law go into effect in Virginia?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-schools-finds-seven-felons-among-employees-including-heroin-smuggler/2014/01/27/e76b0612-8791-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html

Oops.

No crimes against children, though.

And, how dumb do you have to be to ask if your felony conviction is what's holding up your promotion?

She wasn't dumb for asking. She was honest on her application and assumed she wasn't hiding anything and that the person she was talking to already knew. She was dumb for committing the felony in the first place, but I'm sure even she would admit that. While I'm not sure someone with a conviction related to drug trafficking should be teaching in a high school, since the administrators admit that she was respected in the school they could have handle the situation better by not publicly humiliating someone doing a good job of turning her life around, especially since it was their mistake for hiring her despite her full disclosure.

+100 I've worked with ex-offenders looking for jobs and the fact that each of the individuals was honest about their past is huge and says a lot about character strides they've made to put their lives back on track. PP is right that the mistake was made by FCPS if it is in fact their policy not to hire someone with a felony conviction. Poorly handled and hysterically covered. I feel for this woman and the others who had clearly been doing good jobs and are now held up for more public humiliation.

[Anonymous]

How about a special education teacher who took two hundred dollars off a credit card twelve years ago? She had been told by her husband at the. that she had permission. She still pled guilty so her husband would not lose his job. Then went to college as a single mom and got two masters degree. In addition had her background pardoned which is the most forgiveness VA offers. She disclosed this information to FCPS but was removed from her class room

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a special education teacher who took two hundred dollars off a credit card twelve years ago? She had been told by her husband at the. that she had permission. She still pled guilty so her husband would not lose his job. Then went to college as a single mom and got two masters degree. In addition had her background pardoned which is the most forgiveness VA offers. She disclosed this information to FCPS but was removed from her class room

She pled guilty to a felony?

[Anonymous]

These people need to take jobs that fit their crimes.

[Anonymous]

As a single mom my livelihood was yanked away from me at a moments notice. Also now concerned about impact this will have on my kids because they don't know reason I left FCPS. in addition I am an active volunteer in my church and community and now terrified what this is going to do to my reputation as well as my current job