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[quote=Anonymous][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]

+1000 Are there well connected parents at Whitman that like to lobby for an independent IG for employee misconduct and sexual abuse within MCPS.  MCPS’s approach to not respond when teachers/coaches are violating the Employee Code of Conduct gives predators free reign to work in the school system. Even worse is when MCPS does their own investigations of sexual abuse and assault BEFORE the police.

MCPS and the Board (who both are advised by the MCPS General Counsel Office) has no neutral third party or mechanism to investigate employee misconduct.  Their methodology anytime a complaint from the public is filed is to circle the wagons around their employee.  [b]Case history of MCPS child predators are riddled with examples of MCPS knowing of complaints of predatory behavior before the police arrest for sexual abuse occurs[/b].

The Employee Code of Conduct was written to protect children from abuse by people who work for MCPS. It’s negligent to knowingly not enforce it.[/quote]
This should be more widely known. I think the parent community would be outraged to know. I think parents of kids that haven't faced such abusers also need to know so that they can get behind this idea. My kids haven't been in such situations but I have adult friends suffering from past abuse and I read enough to know how heartbreakingly damaging it is. For the sake of society, we need to help those vulnerable to it, since they aren't going to be able to protect themselves.

I've worked at UNC where the students had to write "Pledge" followed by their name at the top of every assignment. (it means that they basically swear to not have cheated, under penalty of expulsion or similar).  I thought it was a kind of weird idea, but the students I knew took it ultra-seriously. So if MCPS introduced some routine that drilled into all staff AND students that the Employee Code of Conduct was sort of 'sacred', students would be more alarmed when they witnessed it being broken, and the culture could encourage students to question whenever they saw an infraction. They could still be shushed by a perpetrator, but at least the perpetrator would know that their breaking of the CoC was noted by at least one person and potentially others...[/quote]

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