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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened to a student in the Class of 2020.  so just last year or maybe in 2019.  Ask anyone from that class if you don't believe it.  Girls had been complianing of him for years maybe decades.[/quote]

Well, respectfully, I’m asking you because you brought it up, I don’t know anyone from that class, and if you think it’s important enough to raise here (as you seem to and it sounds like it is), I’d expect you’d be able to share some detail.  Are we talking about comments or touching?  Regarding the comments, can you elaborate?  [/quote]

Please elaborate!  This is the first I’m hearing of this and have been at the school many years![/quote]

I heard about this as well.  My daughter had already graduated but her friend's little sister was in that class.  The teacher had said many inapprorpiate things, and propositioned girls and former students once they were out of school.  In addition to the reported incident, the girls circulated talking points complaining about him and shared screenshots of his inappropriate Facebook posts.  I think that is when the school finally listened and let him go.  But then they later denied that was the reason why he was gone.  In fact, the Head of School actually denied it to the girls when they tried to speak their truths.  
Several years ago, there was another incident involving sexual harassment by a male administrator and a lower school teacher.  She had reported it to the admnistration many times, but the Head of School did nothing about it.  Then the teacher posted it on social media.  They let him stay until the end of the year, but allowed him to come back on campus for the next several years because his daughter was still going to school there.
These are widely known to anyone who had an US student in the past 4 years.[/quote]

I reached out to someone who graduated already and she had LOTS  to say.  She confirmed everything posted on this forum and sent me screenshots of the students complaints and his social media posts.  THere were a lot of complaints about his teaching, but there was a whole lot about 
the sexual harassment allegations.  The FB screenshots were about his dating life, with references to "ample bosom" and what he is looking for in a partner, and his medication causing him dizziness when he becomes "erect."  
Word for word, this was the most disturbing part of what I saw - and this was put together by US students:

Physically Uncomfortable:
More worried about potential physical encounters with Mr. EEE rather than about the class itself.
1.  We feel scared going into the classroom.
    a.  We refuse to go into the class without at least one other person there.
    b.  We purposely stay as far away from him as possible.
    c.  Compromises our education
7.  Calls us sweetheart.
8.  If we want to ask him questions we have to go right up to his desk and sit down next to him.
9. Makes us uncomfortable.
    a.  Touches us.
          i.  Lower back
         ii.  Arms
        iii.  Wrists
        iv.  Walks close to us when there's five feet of space to walk.
        v.  Holds onto our wrists.
    b.  Stares at us
    c.  Sits in his desk and stares at us, when we have a legitimate questions
10. Has no respect for us.
11. Telling us his personal life that was inappropriate
12.  Feeling like he solely teaches freshman because he knows they are too scared to come forward and report
13.  Gives us good grades, so students don't feel inclined to report
        a.  We are nice to him for good grades because his grades make no sense so we think we have to be nice.

Not doubting the validity, but I have a rising senior at Holton (who has been a student since lower school) and knew nothing about any of this.  So I'm not sure it is "widely known".[/quote][/quote]

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