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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't trust my elementary school to give my kid's 504 to the teachers, so I certainly don't trust them to handle something as serious as this.  The school is covering their behind and DCPS makes sure of that.  I"m not bashing Janney.  I think they are probably doing what they legally can to make sure incidents don't happen.  But to say to trust them blindly is so naive.  [/quote]

Exactly.  There are absolutely legal restraints in what the school can tell parents (FERPA and possibly union rights).  But, you should never just assume that the school is going to do the right thing.  We dealt with an abusive teacher's aid, and it took an actual criminal threat to be made against another staffer by this guy (plus coming to school intoxicated) for him to be finally removed.  Now he was just "mean" to our child, there wasn't anything physical. But he was clearly unfit to work with kids, and many parents had made complaints about it, but the principal did not do anything until it got really, really bad.  If this counselor actually hit a kid (what it sounds like) then I assume that other teachers and parents and students had noticed that he had a short fuse and lacked the skills needed to deal with kids.  What Janney parents need to be pressing on is not THIS incident (because they are not entitled legally to more info) but rather how the school monitors staff to ensure that they're fit to be around kids.  [/quote]

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