Beauvoir Head has resigned with over a year's advance notice

Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:My DC is an alum. Sadly, when we think of Beauvoir, Eric T, the homicidal Cathedral police officer, and his ex-lover, a first grade teacher at the school come to mind. So much going on right under her nose.

End of that year, was a better time to resign. I guess the goal was to hit the 20-year retirement mark.


This is completely unfair. Our child was at the school at the time and knew all 3 individuals of these individuals. Paula handled it just fine. I know many people kept asking the school for info on these events, but these events were being investigated by the police. And police investigations take time, and, for law enforcement reasons, the school was not and should not have been kept updated on every bit of info. In terms of Eric T, B did exactly what PennState did not do. B reported it immediately to the police, and allowed the police to handle it from there.



Well...didn't she tell this same Cathedral police officer who later killed the first grade teacher to escort Eric T off the grounds? How many years has Eric been on the run since that decision was made? I guess this is what you mean by her handling it just fine.



yes, one of the many security guards hired by the Episcopal Cathedral Foundation that oversees all schools( not specifically hired by the Beauvoir Head) passed a security back ground check in that he had no criminal record in all his years as an NYC police officer. He did, unfortunately, develop an obsessive relationship with another adult he met at work. As a security officer at the school he was warm, kind and welcoming. His character, like all of ours, was not one dimensional. Had both returned to the school in the fall and a restraining order was in place by the teacher against the security guard, the school would have had to act accordingly. Time and events intervened and the school was never a part of any procedural event.

Your seizing on something that happened 4 years ago when the Head was on sabatical and bringing it up in this context, suggests that you have an AX to grind and, your choice to complain anon in a public forum in which the Head is named is cowardly. State your full name please and stand behind your words or don't post. My guess is that you will not meet this challenge. Odd then, that in your post you accuse others of not rising to theirs.


She went on sabbatical that fall. Toth was escorted out the last day of school. And no, I don't have an ax to grind. Several parents and I have attempted to talk to the head about the Toth situation and was told that it would be discussed during a public forum.

Nothing that I have stated is made up. Since you're providing PR for the school, why don't you go ahead and publish your full name, home address and telephone for any additional comments or questions on the handling of both situations.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DC is an alum. Sadly, when we think of Beauvoir, Eric T, the homicidal Cathedral police officer, and his ex-lover, a first grade teacher at the school come to mind. So much going on right under her nose.

End of that year, was a better time to resign. I guess the goal was to hit the 20-year retirement mark.


This is completely unfair. Our child was at the school at the time and knew all 3 individuals of these individuals. Paula handled it just fine. I know many people kept asking the school for info on these events, but these events were being investigated by the police. And police investigations take time, and, for law enforcement reasons, the school was not and should not have been kept updated on every bit of info. In terms of Eric T, B did exactly what PennState did not do. B reported it immediately to the police, and allowed the police to handle it from there.



Well...didn't she tell this same Cathedral police officer who later killed the first grade teacher to escort Eric T off the grounds? How many years has Eric been on the run since that decision was made? I guess this is what you mean by her handling it just fine.



yes, one of the many security guards hired by the Episcopal Cathedral Foundation that oversees all schools( not specifically hired by the Beauvoir Head) passed a security back ground check in that he had no criminal record in all his years as an NYC police officer. He did, unfortunately, develop an obsessive relationship with another adult he met at work. As a security officer at the school he was warm, kind and welcoming. His character, like all of ours, was not one dimensional. Had both returned to the school in the fall and a restraining order was in place by the teacher against the security guard, the school would have had to act accordingly. Time and events intervened and the school was never a part of any procedural event.

Your seizing on something that happened 4 years ago when the Head was on sabatical and bringing it up in this context, suggests that you have an AX to grind and, your choice to complain anon in a public forum in which the Head is named is cowardly. State your full name please and stand behind your words or don't post. My guess is that you will not meet this challenge. Odd then, that in your post you accuse others of not rising to theirs.



This particular Cathedral security guard/officer was serving regularly as the school's crossing guard and was inside the building frequently.
Anonymous
there is also not some huge cathedral police force. some PP made it seem like this loony was one of many. He was as a different PP said, the one with the most familiar face at Beauvoir. And to be honest, he should have known better when escorting Toth off the grounds, but was not told any details by Beauvoir.
Anonymous
We knew both the teacher and police officer, pretty well. Both were great people. What happened at the teacher's house remains unclear to me at least. I have always wondered whether the MC police escalated an incident beyong what it needed to be, causing multipe rounds to be fired. I think B head handled the fallout as well as she could have. We had a few issues with B, but, for the most, part, had no issues with her. She deserved her well earned retirement.
Anonymous
The discovery of an alleged pedophile and the murder of a teacher and subsequent suicide of a member of the Cathedral police were tragedies in 2008 for the Beauvoir School and all connected with it, including the Head of School, but most especially for the children affected by these situations. To try to lay the blame for these tragedies on one person is an act of irresponsibility made despicable by a refuge in anonymity. While others have raised questions and discussed alternative actions, those who have read this thread or other Beauvoir postings over the past four years know that one individual has continuously demonstrated a “fatal attraction” hostility to Beauvoir, the Board of Trustees and the Head of School.

That individual, let us call her X, has expressed such hatred and anger that one is inclined to ask its source. It helps to know that she was personally close to the alleged pedophile, that she wrote love poems to him on her website, and that his closeness to her gave him access to her sons. In retrospect, any mother might reflect on her own responsibility, indeed guilt, in such a circumstance. It is not unknown for self-hatred to transfer into hatred of others. It is better to blame another than to take on the burden oneself.

The course of action that X has taken to avoid taking any personal responsibility is to attack Beauvoir and its leadership through a distorted interpretation of the actions they took to rid the school of a perceived threat to students, to individually inform the most affected families and to communicate and to meet with all other interested members of the school community. Her omission of details, her misinterpretation of specific actions, and her unrelenting unwillingness to see any positive intent lends a lack of credibility to her belief that nothing was done correctly and that everything that went badly was Beauvoir’s fault. She presumes to know the facts of events at which she was not present. She may very well believe the story she has concocted and groomed over the years but that does not make it true.

What we do not need more of is the kind of displaced personal abuse which X has cast upon a good school and the individuals who lead it. In the past, this kind of personal exchange would have taken place face to face. The broadcast nature of websites and the internet gives license to all sorts of hostility and fear. However, when using social media to defame another, it is best to have one’s own house in order.

[ Edited to remove possibly identifying information. ]
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Anonymous
Wow it kinda seems like it would have been better if Jeff kept deleting a lot of these entries . . .
Anonymous
18:21, you have quite an imagination.

Anonymous
Dear Jeff,
The time has come to call individuals to account for their irresponsibility. Ms. X is clearly a repeated violator of your restrictions and has been for 4 years, including today despite your warnings. She should be banned from accessing this site to defame individuals by name or title.
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Anonymous wrote:Dear Jeff,
The time has come to call individuals to account for their irresponsibility. Ms. X is clearly a repeated violator of your restrictions and has been for 4 years, including today despite your warnings. She should be banned from accessing this site to defame individuals by name or title.


There are multiple possible "Ms. X." posters. I don't know which of them you believe to be Ms. X and, since I have no idea who that is, I'm not in a position to guess. But, it is because of the existence of such posters that I established an admittedly double standard for this thread.
Anonymous
I'm going to go pop some popcorn...
Anonymous
Yeah me too! So glad I clicked on this thread that has zero to do with me
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:When you really like something, its not hard to see why families might be sad.

Complaining about how a school delivers news, via email, as parents who spend lots of time and money at the school is also valid.

This stuff about people should have known, is not true for new families.

Paula we will miss you.


A letter was also mailed. Notify by electronic mail and USPS. That is just standard practice.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:there is also not some huge cathedral police force. some PP made it seem like this loony was one of many. He was as a different PP said, the one with the most familiar face at Beauvoir. And to be honest, he should have known better when escorting Toth off the grounds, but was not told any details by Beauvoir.


The security guards are vetted through the PECF and assigned by them to either Beauvoir, NCS or STA. I saw the officer that you are describing everyday. He was always warm, friendly and gracious. There was no volatility, moodiness or temper there that I ever witnessed. You seem to want to reduce this man's whole life to one dimension. Life is more complex than that as are people. To their credit, the teachers were deeply saddened by both losses with many feeling badly that they did not know that the security officer that they saw everyday was struggling internally to such a degree and they were not given opportunity to help because they did not know.
Everyone reading this , please know that that alone tells you what kind of place Beauvoir is.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:there is also not some huge cathedral police force. some PP made it seem like this loony was one of many. He was as a different PP said, the one with the most familiar face at Beauvoir. And to be honest, he should have known better when escorting Toth off the grounds, but was not told any details by Beauvoir.


The security guards are vetted through the PECF and assigned by them to either Beauvoir, NCS or STA. I saw the officer that you are describing everyday. He was always warm, friendly and gracious. There was no volatility, moodiness or temper there that I ever witnessed. You seem to want to reduce this man's whole life to one dimension. Life is more complex than that as are people. To their credit, the teachers were deeply saddened by both losses with many feeling badly that they did not know that the security officer that they saw everyday was struggling internally to such a degree and they were not given opportunity to help because they did not know.
Everyone reading this , please know that that alone tells you what kind of place Beauvoir is.



Did the school and community reach out to his wife and son?
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