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Not to mention that this was certainly conduct he had engaged in in the past. Dude did not just become a serial child molester when he started to work at LAMB. I'll bet anything that a thorough background check would have turned something up. [/quote]

I agree that this was probably conduct he engaged in or attempted in the past. But I doubt it would have turned up on a background check, unfortunately. Background checks only contain arrests/convictions not suspicions or complaints.  If LAMB had fired him for the locked door incident and MPD declined to prosecute, nothing would have shown up on the background check at his next school of employment. Even when you check references, no one says “we suspected him/her of inappropriate behavior with students”. Instead the most you might get is that the school wouldn’t rehire the person. A school employee seeking a job in the spring like Fernandez is a red flag to be investigated. Schools need to dig deep when people are seeking jobs mid-year. Background checks are simply not enough. [/quote]

Yeah, I don't mean the computerized background check.  I mean a careful, in-person check of his employment histories and the reasons for dismissal at each job, particularly where there are gaps or apparent terminations.  [/quote]

hr people will only tell you dates of employment.  They arent going to risk a lawsuit to tell you that they didn't renew his contract or eliminated his position because his interactions with students were too familiar for their tastes.[/quote]

Maybe, maybe not. If he's an otherwise competent teacher mysteriously dismissed mid-year from a charter IN THE SAME CITY, any competent school admin would get to the bottom of why he was dismissed.  Maybe they don't get his full file, but something should have pinged them about why this apparently "wonderful" teacher did not have a full-throated recommendation from his last employer.

PS:  Hopefully there's criminal liability somehow for schools that allow suspected abusers to be hired by other schools b/c of harebrained ideas about their legal liability.  Sounds like the Catholic Church ... [/quote]

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