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[quote=Anonymous]Principals theoretically document violations of the code of conduct and are the ones who put a teacher on peer review, but Human Resources/DCI does the firing in accordance with union policies. Some offenses don't require that long process. Principals don't want to lose good teachers and have to line up subs, but they also don't want to be or appear complicit or harbor child abusers, I'm going to assume, so they occupy a weird position in all of this. They are front line responders and mandated reporters and legally can't turn a blind eye, but do they at times? Yes, they do. They are not enough to stop this from happening on their own, but they may be the only one hearing odd things that stick out as suspect in aggregate. Sometimes people don't see what they don't want to see though. There are several student sites on Instagram that call out specific teachers by name as being sketchy and inappropriate with female students, but some posts are a couple of years old and those teachers are still teaching. Were they investigated? I don't know, and I agree that there has to be a mechanism for screening out false accusations, but is anyone looking into these allegations at all? Are principals aware of what the girls are saying and monitoring these teachers closely? Or are these staff members still having lunch with students in their classroom and texting them and making comments about their bodies? This is a big story for any reporter but it's not a simple problem. [/quote]

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