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[quote=Anonymous]Based on the charging documents it appears most of the grooming and abuse occurred off school grounds.  While there may have been grooming actions at the school, these activities on their own (ignoring the greater context) are generally above board.

The MCPS investigation has little teeth here since as another person said they don't have the threat of perjury, criminal charges, nor do they have subpoena powers.  In this case, there is no upside for the accused to cooperate; why would a rule breaker admit to it?  MCPS can't compel accused to implicate themselves yielding to sham investigations.

What do you ideally want from MCPS here?  Putting it into a different context for a sec, I work for large city government; an abusive boss coercing someone using work resources and time is completely different than the same boss doing it on their personal time in public.  In both cases the abuser needs to pay the price but the power of the employer is diminished when it occurs elsewhere.

I would love for abuse allegations to be taken seriously but until the investigations have actual teeth nothing will change.  Now if they actually had all the evidence, the text messages, the lewd images, and still did nothing; now that's messed up.  It's a no win situation, you can't fire someone on bogus accusations nor should you have to wait for criminal charges to act.  I wonder how much power the union has here?

Like any other big organization, MCPS only cares about protecting MCPS.  [/quote]

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