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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was sent out last year. Stellar write-up, now redacted for privacy. Since the original was removed.

Dear Parents,

We want to let you know that Thursday, February 13th was Upper School Science teacher XXXs last day teaching at Holton-Arms. XXX taught here for 18 years, and contributed significantly to many aspects of the science program, including creating our Upper School engineering course and the Robotics Team. We wish him well in his future endeavors.

Rest assured that your daughters are in good hands. MMM will continue to lead the Advisory Group and will be assisted by US Counselor AAA. PPP, one of the other ninth-grade physics teachers, will teach the U4 ninth-grade physics class for the remainder of the year. HHH, who has an undergraduate degree in physics from YYY and a PhD in astronomy from the UUU, will teach the Advanced Analytical Physics for the remainder of the year. RRR, Director of Libraries and Information Services, will cover the last few classes of the Computer Programming and Robotics second trimester course. We are waiving the Science Research Program’s requirement to take Science Literacy, a trimester course offered in the spring, and we will not offer the course this year. HHH will reach out to the girls enrolled in that class to assign some readings. We are continuing to seek out coverage for the Introduction to Engineering class and for the Robotics Team. In the meantime, members of the Science Department will cover Engineering and the Robotics Team. We will update you once we have solidified that coverage.

We shared this news with your daughters this morning. As always, please let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Head of School
Director of Upper School[/quote]

This was sent out as cya. Not sure if any girls requested individual counseling but never discussed or acknowledged. Basically it was all swept under the rug until now.[/quote]

This all happened just before covid. February of 2020. So a bit of luck that there wasn't hyper focus on it. Maybe the administration will follow up on it now. Better late than never.[/quote]

I heard directly from a senior, who graduated in 2020 and she said ask any senior about it because it was a well known fact the Upper School Science teacher was a sexual predator. Apparently their were numerous reports of sexual allegations against the Upper School Science teacher. The head of school "brushed it under the rug" until they no longer could and he was dismissed in the manner above. Perhaps their  outrageous legal fees or some of that $21B loan were used as a settlement to the family. The head of school would have the girls come for lunch to talk and when they would report abnormal sexual behavior, she would say "No, that didn't happen". I find this disgusting especially with all the press with the ME TOO movement. How can the Head of School be teaching this message to our future women? How is she still there? 
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