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I found & read the Complaint online  & advise all to do so. I conclude from the facts alleged that this is a  rightly filed suit.   Plaintiff's attorney would be wise to go to jury trial and amend remedies to include a process to ensure revisions to school employee policies & supervisory checks & balances operationally. 
This  father apparently worked with the school  adequately if the facts of the Complaint are proven. 
he, his prior generation, and two of his children previously attended and supported Sidwell dating back decades, but after failing to gain the school's support of his daughter for over a year it is alleged,  the suit's intent now is to support his daughter and all future Sidwell students. 
 It is unfortunate that suits like this are the only means to bring effective institutional accountability and change. The psychologist was a Sidwell employee, & families were expected to use him. Even without this father's reports, the school owed a duty of care & supervision flowing to both students & parents which was allegedly lacking. The other fired employee should have been the Admissions Director who  failed to take an alumnus father's knowledge of his daughter's profile & needs to heart in the admission decision. 
 Dr liza H should not fear repercussions for her daughter. It is my experience preK and K parents know who the A-H parents in the room are & don't blame the child. Kudos to her for parental/professional maturity.
 It is scarey to think my child could have gone to Sidwell & interacted with a staffer acting out sexually in academic hours by email and engaging in regular substance abuse in his personal life.  
At another leading  DC private, we found no better Admin accountability when staff underperformed or acted detrimentally to individual children or classes. Interestingly, there, two of those staff (in my opinion) had worked for the same "professional group, I was told at the time.   "Supporting the school" does not mean a parent should fail to hold schools accountable for reasonable standards of care[/quote]

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