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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks, remember when you read a lawsuit, you're only hearing one side of the story. The teacher may be 100% right or he may be completely lying. When MCPS comes back with its formal response and/or when and if this goes to trial, I assume we'll hear things that conflict with the teacher's allegations. I don't know who's right but I won't assume that the lawsuit provides the exact accurate rendition of the events in question.

Also, it's interesting to note that his lawsuit also contains the allegation that the principal took this action out of jealousy because the principal himself was such a failure and the teacher is such a popular success story. Something's a little off there.[/quote]

There are some interesting inconsistencies if you read the whole suit and attachments.

Some paragraphs describe Engler as an “award-winning” IB teacher.  It’s true he was an IB English teacher a few years ago, but according to the lawsuit, he was teaching “Health” not IB classes when this incident occurred.  That’s pretty strange - an IB teacher doesn’t normally voluntarily go from teaching IB to teaching non-IB, non-Core classes like Health.

And, in the demand for the retraction, Engler’s lawyers write, “ It is our understanding that, prior to the start of the term, these students had informed the school administrators that they did not want to be in Mar. Engler’s class (something Mr. Engler did not know) because of an unrelated incident that had occurred in one of his classes the previous year.”

Knowing that there was a “previous incident,” makes me really wonder what other problems Engler had and makes me doubt (the somewhat over the top) paragraphs 96 & 97 of the complaint that describe Mooney as having a “personal dislike and animosity” and wanting to “interfere with the success of Engler’s teaching and coaching career and being “jealous”.

Granted, Mooney appears not to have handled this according to policy, but, as a PP notes, a pleading is a very one-sided document - it’s the plaintiff’s best characterization of the situation.  If the Engler case moves to trial, more facts may come out. [/quote]

You write a teacher doesn't "voluntarily go from teaching IB to teaching non-IB", but you don't realize teachers are at the whim of awful administrators who can vindictively assign them to teacher whatever class the administrator wants. If a principal doesn't like a teacher it is easy to imagine that teacher being moved from classes they like teaching like AP or IB classes full of dedicated students to Health where there are usually way more rowdy students who can be disruptive.[/quote]

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