Beauvoir Scandal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened is a terrible shame. However, good procedures help to prevent a repetition. Every State in the USA requires that schools do a background check on teachers and administrators. Most States have extended the background check requirements to any employee that is on the property when children are present. When I was a parent volunteer for our catholic school, all parents, coaches, and any volunteer had to get fingerprints and criminal record background search . Then we had to attend a seminar on the protection of children. And, that is repeated every year, just in case someone commits a crime since last year. College campuses give ID cards to each student and all personnel. The ID cards must be scanned before the student can enter a building.

This is far more than a terrible shame!

Toth's demeanor was odd and after brief conversations with him a few times, my impression of him was that he was strange. Sure you can't fire an employee based on that alone. However, if he was sleeping in his classroom overnight, allowing boys to sit on his lap, and closing his classroom door while alone with a child after admin asked him not to do so. Is it that Beauvoir's admin shrugged off his behavior. It amazes me that Beauvoir's seasoned & brilliant, admin team did not instinctively pick up that there was something seriously wrong with this guy.

Obviously, not so brilliant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is that they did have a hunch there was something wrong, and thus did not renew his contract for this year. But until the photos were found, they didn't have anything that was grounds for firing him in the middle of the school year.

I thought he had accepted a new position at Potomac School, reason he wasn't returning to Beauvoir.

[Anonymous]

I heard that, too, around April or so...tho later in the year there was some waffling/uncertainty about it. Who knows if it was true? Even if it was, he could have been dismissed for next year and then gone to look for a new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened is a terrible shame. However, good procedures help to prevent a repetition. Every State in the USA requires that schools do a background check on teachers and administrators. Most States have extended the background check requirements to any employee that is on the property when children are present. When I was a parent volunteer for our catholic school, all parents, coaches, and any volunteer had to get fingerprints and criminal record background search . Then we had to attend a seminar on the protection of children. And, that is repeated every year, just in case someone commits a crime since last year. College campuses give ID cards to each student and all personnel. The ID cards must be scanned before the student can enter a building.

This is far more than a terrible shame!

Toth's demeanor was odd and after brief conversations with him a few times, my impression of him was that he was strange. Sure you can't fire an employee based on that alone. However, if he was sleeping in his classroom overnight, allowing boys to sit on his lap, and closing his classroom door while alone with a child after admin asked him not to do so. Is it that Beauvoir's admin shrugged off his behavior. It amazes me that Beauvoir's seasoned & brilliant, admin team did not instinctively pick up that there was something seriously wrong with this guy.

Obviously, not so brilliant.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened is a terrible shame. However, good procedures help to prevent a repetition. Every State in the USA requires that schools do a background check on teachers and administrators. Most States have extended the background check requirements to any employee that is on the property when children are present. When I was a parent volunteer for our catholic school, all parents, coaches, and any volunteer had to get fingerprints and criminal record background search . Then we had to attend a seminar on the protection of children. And, that is repeated every year, just in case someone commits a crime since last year. College campuses give ID cards to each student and all personnel. The ID cards must be scanned before the student can enter a building.

This is far more than a terrible shame!

Toth's demeanor was odd and after brief conversations with him a few times, my impression of him was that he was strange. Sure you can't fire an employee based on that alone. However, if he was sleeping in his classroom overnight, allowing boys to sit on his lap, and closing his classroom door while alone with a child after admin asked him not to do so. Is it that Beauvoir's admin shrugged off his behavior. It amazes me that Beauvoir's seasoned & brilliant, admin team did not instinctively pick up that there was something seriously wrong with this guy.

Obviously, not so brilliant.

Exactly.

Does someone know what the admin at Beauvor's WPPSI scores are?

[Anonymous]

Gotta say I'm stunned that almost a year has passed and Toth is still at large. Creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta say I'm stunned that almost a year has passed and Toth is still at large. Creepy.

How is he supporting himself? I sure hope he's not teaching somewhere. If he's still in the states, he could have bought a fake i.d. and landed a job teaching in a poor school district where they don't perform background checks. His loving family probably helped him to escape. Likely now molesting children in another country.

Hopefully, he did commit suicide.

[Anonymous]

Speaking of suicide, did the man who shot himself yesterday by the Cathedral die?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

Until it ceases to be true?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened is a terrible shame. However, good procedures help to prevent a repetition. Every State in the USA requires that schools do a background check on teachers and administrators. Most States have extended the background check requirements to any employee that is on the property when children are present. When I was a parent volunteer for our catholic school, all parents, coaches, and any volunteer had to get fingerprints and criminal record background search . Then we had to attend a seminar on the protection of children. And, that is repeated every year, just in case someone commits a crime since last year. College campuses give ID cards to each student and all personnel. The ID cards must be scanned before the student can enter a building.

This is far more than a terrible shame!

Toth's demeanor was odd and after brief conversations with him a few times, my impression of him was that he was strange. Sure you can't fire an employee based on that alone. However, if he was sleeping in his classroom overnight, allowing boys to sit on his lap, and closing his classroom door while alone with a child after admin asked him not to do so. Is it that Beauvoir's admin shrugged off his behavior. It amazes me that Beauvoir's seasoned & brilliant, admin team did not instinctively pick up that there was something seriously wrong with this guy.

Obviously, not so brilliant.

Exactly.

Does someone know what the admin at Beauvor's WPPSI scores are?

Ha! Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

Until it ceases to be true?

I think the "shot in the dark" says a lot more about the person suggesting it than about amy of the people who have raised questions about this whole affair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

Until it ceases to be true?

I think the "shot in the dark" says a lot more about the person suggesting it than about amy of the people who have raised questions about this whole affair.

Isn't it ironic that all of these negative posts have come up within weeks of rejection letters going out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

Until it ceases to be true?

I think the "shot in the dark" says a lot more about the person suggesting it than about amy of the people who have raised questions about this whole affair.

Isn't it ironic that all of these negative posts have come up within weeks of rejection letters going out?

PP, if you're Beauvoir's admin grasping at straws to yank your feet from the fire think again. There really are Beauvoir families past & present who find the fact that a pedophile was on faculty at the school horrendous and unforgiveable.

Definitely not on w/l.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why are you drudging this up again a month after the last post?

PP, I think you mean dredging (unless you're punning the Drudge Report? In which case, clever). Anyway, just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps someone is on the Beauvoir WL? and is trying to get others who've been accepted to back out? Just supposing...

How many times does this "clever" supposition have to be dredged up?

Until it ceases to be true?

I think the "shot in the dark" says a lot more about the person suggesting it than about amy of the people who have raised questions about this whole affair.

Isn't it ironic that all of these negative posts have come up within weeks of rejection letters going out?

PP, if you're Beauvoir's admin grasping at straws to yank your feet from the fire think again. There really are Beauvoir families past & present who find the fact that a pedophile was on faculty at the school horrendous and unforgiveable.

Definitely not on w/l.

Horrendous? Of course. But who to forgive? If you know the facts, you'll know they did all the right things, not to "dredge" up any old posts.