Churchill science teacher escorted off campus today?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with MCPS?

So so much.

Mostly, I think the school system is just too big. And that makes it so hard to run it efficiently.

Lack of leadership. Lack of accountability.

Exactly which elected politician can can implement complete accountability in MCPS?

This is it exactly.

MCPS is just too big. This is what happens when a system/corporation gets too large.

In a smaller school district, the community would demand action and the Damascus Principal would have been gone after that WaPo article.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hopefully no email means it us unconnected to students...

Yes that's what it typically means.

HAHA Nice try MCPS front office. We all remember all the times you never sent a letter even though students were involved!
Many times letters only come after the media asks questions. Parents have no idea how many arrests the media misses.
Jack Smith said there are MCPS staff in jail. How many? Who are they? Why are they being paid their salary when they are in jail?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully no email means it us unconnected to students...

Yes that's what it typically means.

HAHA Nice try MCPS front office. We all remember all the times you never sent a letter even though students were involved!
Many times letters only come after the media asks questions. Parents have no idea how many arrests the media misses.
Jack Smith said there are MCPS staff in jail. How many? Who are they? Why are they being paid their salary when they are in jail?

Probably in jail because they couldn’t make bail and it’s cheaper to pay them until convicted than to face a lawsuit for wrongful termination if found not guilty. PGCPS paid a teacher for six months.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DS is a sophomore at Churchill. He came home this afternoon and said a male science teacher was escorted off campus by security. My DS said the teacher kissed a female student. Has anyone else heard this?

My child came home with the same story. I don't think this will be a situation in which there was a medical emergency in the family.

It does remind me though of when the Athletic Director made an announcement to the track team last year that the coach was on administrative leave and no written message went to families for 2 months.

A clear and concise message from the principal would ease parental concerns and stop the rumors.

My kid was on the track team and I was certainly annoyed by the lack of information. On other hand, the coach was eventually cleared, so it probably ended up the right decision to avoid dragging an innocent person through the mud.

This case seems to be getting more publicity -- it is now an Internet meme -- so it will probably be harder to maintain silence. The meme says that the student came to the teacher crying about a grade and that was when he kissed her

[Anonymous]

MCPS is hopeless. I feel badly for families who can't afford private.

[Anonymous]

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Parents should tell their children to text them if Churchill tries to pull their child out of class for an interview. The child should not answer any questions without a parent present.

I strongly disagree. These are teenagers, and they are old enough to say what they saw. Having a parent present will not help the school get to the truth of the matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a sophomore at Churchill. He came home this afternoon and said a male science teacher was escorted off campus by security. My DS said the teacher kissed a female student. Has anyone else heard this?

My child came home with the same story. I don't think this will be a situation in which there was a medical emergency in the family.

It does remind me though of when the Athletic Director made an announcement to the track team last year that the coach was on administrative leave and no written message went to families for 2 months.

A clear and concise message from the principal would ease parental concerns and stop the rumors.

My kid was on the track team and I was certainly annoyed by the lack of information. On other hand, the coach was eventually cleared, so it probably ended up the right decision to avoid dragging an innocent person through the mud.

This case seems to be getting more publicity -- it is now an Internet meme -- so it will probably be harder to maintain silence. The meme says that the student came to the teacher crying about a grade and that was when he kissed her

Really? The only memes I’ve seen were the N-word passes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Parents should tell their children to text them if Churchill tries to pull their child out of class for an interview. The child should not answer any questions without a parent present.

I strongly disagree. These are teenagers, and they are old enough to say what they saw. Having a parent present will not help the school get to the truth of the matter.

Ask the JV football parents if they disagree. When MCPS uses these types of tactics, it is so the student doesn't have a third party / non-MCPS witness to their statements. Children can be coerced and said to say things that didn't occur. The sole objective of MCPS forcing students into interviews with out parental notification is to cover up and protect MCPS.

If this is potentially a criminal investigation, CPS and/or the police should be conducting a forensic interview. These are highly trained investigators that know how to properly interview children. An interview by MCPS could potentially hamper a criminal investigation.

[Anonymous]

The JV football team were students at Damascus HS interviewed by the principal there when the crime was rape.

[Anonymous]

Look, given the sheer number of MCPS employees with problematic case histories listed in the public judiciary system, I expect people to come on here and try to shame others into “minding their own business.” But MCPS itself created this dynamic. I looked on the database and I’m someone who has never done that in my entire life before these past several incidents. In other words, I searched because I don’t trust the people ensured with protecting children, and my investigation bears that out. So for those who have something to hide, I’d come clean if I were in your shoes. Because we’re now living in an era where secrets don’t stay buried for long. Even if only one out of every thousand MCPS parents searches that database, it’s going to turn up a whole lot of revealing stuff. And the journalists smell a good story, too, and I’m sure are out digging—hell, they just have to click on a few links to unearth a data mine. So again, like the other dozen people who said this before me on this thread, I have no plans to stop being “nosy.” These days that’s called responsible parenting, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, given the sheer number of MCPS employees with problematic case histories listed in the public judiciary system, I expect people to come on here and try to shame others into “minding their own business.” But MCPS itself created this dynamic. I looked on the database and I’m someone who has never done that in my entire life before these past several incidents. In other words, I searched because I don’t trust the people ensured with protecting children, and my investigation bears that out. So for those who have something to hide, I’d come clean if I were in your shoes. Because we’re now living in an era where secrets don’t stay buried for long. Even if only one out of every thousand MCPS parents searches that database, it’s going to turn up a whole lot of revealing stuff. And the journalists smell a good story, too, and I’m sure are out digging—hell, they just have to click on a few links to unearth a data mine. So again, like the other dozen people who said this before me on this thread, I have no plans to stop being “nosy.” These days that’s called responsible parenting, unfortunately.

Well said. Worth the few seconds it takes to do a public case search. Anyone who is in close contact with your children should be checked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Time for someone to post “Look on Casesearch.”

I did you better. I looked up all the current male science teachers at Churchill on the case search. Nothing in system on today's issue yet, but I couldn't believe it. Two of the eight have domestic violence issues on record. A third seems to have waived their right to a jury trial for something or other. One has too common a name to be sure, but seems to have quite a number of things on their dossier. Only a few turned up nothing.

Just want to add that it could be someone with the same name, but I did limit to Montgomery County.

You must have a lot of time on your hands...sad.

Do you actually have kids?

What would be 'sad' is to bury your head in the sand. It literally takes 5 seconds to do a search. You can do it while you wait in the carpool lane. Or, while you wait for your coffee maker to brew.

It would be 'sad' if parents didn't do some research.

MCPS has proven that it's not in business to protect kids.

[Anonymous]

Still radio silence?

[Anonymous]

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Do you actually have kids?

What would be 'sad' is to bury your head in the sand. It literally takes 5 seconds to do a search. You can do it while you wait in the carpool lane. Or, while you wait for your coffee maker to brew.

It would be 'sad' if parents didn't do some research.

MCPS has proven that it's not in business to protect kids.

A good way to protect kids by using a cell phone (or, a computer even?) to do search when driving (or, more accurately "operating your vehicle")?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with MCPS?

So so much.

Mostly, I think the school system is just too big. And that makes it so hard to run it efficiently.

Lack of leadership. Lack of accountability.

Exactly which elected politician can can implement complete accountability in MCPS?

This is it exactly.

MCPS is just too big. This is what happens when a system/corporation gets too large.

In a smaller school district, the community would demand action and the Damascus Principal would have been gone after that WaPo article.

Have to disagree. The only rational conclusion is after weekly posts of racist debacles and other unseamly scandals at Churchill it's safe to conclude that school is a mess. They need to rework the boundary completely and start over.