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[quote=Anonymous]You'd think we were living in the 50's, when child predators were a less openly acknowledged problem.  Nowadays, every few weeks you hear a story about a teacher or a coach or someone in power who took advantage of a student's vulnerability.  And because we live in a world where this problem is very familiar to us all, beyond just policies, doesn't common sense kick in and don't red flags go up everywhere when a teacher, who has been the subject of multiple parent complaints etc., gets CAUGHT locking the door from the inside and has to be counseled about not tickling the students?  For the love of god, it doesn't take a policy to put the other adults on alert that something is seriously wrong.  It doesn't require a policy to do the right thing and step up to protect the children under your care.  And if the principal didn't have that basic instinct, and if her superiors were relatively uninterested in taking meaningful action or investigating, this is on them.   Not just MCPS and its ineffective policy, but on the adults who chose to take a passive approach and risk the well-being of the children lest they rock the boat by investigating this guy at the first sign of questionable conduct.   Every act of abuse that happened after questionable conduct on school grounds was witnessed or reported  is something they get to own for the rest of their lives.  [/quote]

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