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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But isn’t MCPS funded with our taxes? Can we not lobby? Can we not vote out representatives? Can the state congress not mandate the Dept. of the education to do more and assign a budget? Can we not protest? [/quote]

I'm not really engaged in BOE politics but if there was a parent-led call for them to hire an IG or similar to protect against abusers in MCPS, I'd get on board and share w/my parent friends. I would find this issue worthy of taking a position as a MoCo voter, for example.
I wonder if other school districts have IGs for sexual abuse. I suppose that one potential area to look for models is university's efforts to address campus rape accusations. I know that many approaches have been controversial, for example, usually having to do with who represents the victims' side of things and whether they are empowered to press charges, and whether this has had negative consequences for falsely accused students (or because people fear the [i]potential[/i] of such consequences). 
But those models are different since many alleged abusers would be fellow students, not teaching faculty. (Of course, faculty would also be accused from time to time. And there are professors that abuse students). Does anyone follow those university-level issues?[/quote]

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