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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

+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. [/quote]

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