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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a Whitman student from 2001-05 which is long enough ago that today's students were toddlers or unborn.

I am curious to hear from students and parents about how Shipley was in the past few school years as a teacher and person?

16-20 years ago he was a guy in his late 20s who was single guy who had a house near Logan Circle, was passionate about rowing.  He fit in the Whitman culture, clearly came from wealth, understood the pressure of the school.  He had his quirks and was a little odd at times.  As a teacher he was a little dry and droll at times but knew what he was talking about.

[b]He had a bias toward the ladies[/b] and if I recall would have [b]crew kids come over to his house[/b] on occasion (maybe I am not remembering correctly) or [b]gave out rides[/b] but seemingly nothing nefarious.

I am curious to wonder what Alan Goodwin (a man who I think is a model principal) would think of all this? [/quote]

So...16-20 years ago, his behavior was already inappropriate. I don't know the history of the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct, and it may not have existed back then, but these three things are all inappropriate, as the posts in this thread have discussed. The latter 2 are in the ECOC now, from what I understand, and I suspect there was no major battle over whether they should be in there or not when the ECOC was formulated.

PP, a question meant to be non-confrontational: Are you male? I ask because of the way you wrote "bias towards the ladies" in a way that implies there isn't anything wrong (or perhaps it's the way you refer to these fellow students as "the ladies", which is not how I as a female would refer to my female classmates...And if you are indeed male, I'm wondering whether this is why these behaviors apparently didn't set off red flags with you at the time (or why they apparently don't seem problematic to you at this point either, as you characterize them as "seemingly nothing nefarious").  [/quote]

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