Former Duke Ellington teacher charged with sexual abuse of student

[Anonymous]

Is this common at DESA? The choir tracher is accused of sex acts with his 16 year old student. The boy told a friend what happened and they sent an anonymous email to the school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-teacher-at-dcs-duke-ellington-school-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-a-minor/2020/03/17/663df844-687f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

[Anonymous]

No not common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No not common.

Define "common."

This is the second teacher to be accused of sexual misconduct at DESA in the past two school years.

https://thehoya.com/duke-ellington-school-arts-teacher-leave-sexual-assault-allegations/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this common at DESA? The choir tracher is accused of sex acts with his 16 year old student. The boy told a friend what happened and they sent an anonymous email to the school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-teacher-at-dcs-duke-ellington-school-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-a-minor/2020/03/17/663df844-687f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

Yes. After morning meeting all of the teachers get to pick a student to abuse. Seriously???!!!

[Anonymous]

Duke Ellington operates autonomously and is not a DCPS school. I’m confident that the DESA board is on the issue and suggest that spectators and non-members of the DESA community should MYOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke Ellington operates autonomously and is not a DCPS school. I’m confident that the DESA board is on the issue and suggest that spectators and non-members of the DESA community should MYOB.

lol, it's in the WaPo and you are telling everyone to hush. bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke Ellington operates autonomously and is not a DCPS school. I’m confident that the DESA board is on the issue and suggest that spectators and non-members of the DESA community should MYOB.

The DESA community may not believe it, but it very much is a DCPS school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this common at DESA? The choir tracher is accused of sex acts with his 16 year old student. The boy told a friend what happened and they sent an anonymous email to the school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-teacher-at-dcs-duke-ellington-school-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-a-minor/2020/03/17/663df844-687f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

Yes. After morning meeting all of the teachers get to pick a student to abuse. Seriously???!!!

Context matters.

As a DESA parent, my opinion is that two teachers in two school years is far too common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke Ellington operates autonomously and is not a DCPS school. I’m confident that the DESA board is on the issue and suggest that spectators and non-members of the DESA community should MYOB.

The DESA community may not believe it, but it very much is a DCPS school.

If it is not a DCPS school, then you should not get any DCPS funding.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, accusations can be a petty way for disgruntled students to retaliate.

And no, this is not the norm at Ellington. False accusations of teachers , on the other hand, have increased at all public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this common at DESA? The choir tracher is accused of sex acts with his 16 year old student. The boy told a friend what happened and they sent an anonymous email to the school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/former-teacher-at-dcs-duke-ellington-school-charged-with-sexual-abuse-of-a-minor/2020/03/17/663df844-687f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html

Yes. After morning meeting all of the teachers get to pick a student to abuse. Seriously???!!!

Context matters.

As a DESA parent, my opinion is that two teachers in two school years is far too common.

+1 Have they released any plans to improve measures that'll decrease the likelihood of this happening? How are they screening/background checks on these people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke Ellington operates autonomously and is not a DCPS school. I’m confident that the DESA board is on the issue and suggest that spectators and non-members of the DESA community should MYOB.

The DESA community may not believe it, but it very much is a DCPS school.

DCPS or not, much of the DESA community doesn’t even reside in DC. More like PG! But DC taxpayers pay the freight.