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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Principal should lose her job. It doesn’t take an “investigation” to see she lied to the parent body on her email, as well as re-traumatizing the victims. Regardless of what happens to the perpetrator, the principal has failed. [/quote]

Are you really still holding on to the idea that the principal wrote that letter? FCPS writes the letters, or at least the important parts, to the community whenever there is an incident like this. [/quote]

Who is “FCPS”? Reid? An attorney? The principal let it go out under her name knowing it libeled the victims. For that she should be fired. If others participated in drafting a letter which lied to parents they should similarly go. [/quote]

I don’t think it would be surprising to most people to discover that attorneys or communications teams write or edit letters that go out under a principal’s name in legal matters like this. Also, the idea that a principal “let” something go out is laughable. When you work for an organization or a company, unfortunately, you send what you are told to send. Any principals or former principals willing to speak up on this?
Also, can someone help me understand why you think a principal would cover something like this up? There is no possible way a person who cares about students and also knows that they could lose their job would knowingly allow someone to hurt the kids we are there to protect. It doesn’t pass the common sense test, as much you might want to believe it. 
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Most people with any moral compass or value of ethics, would resign (or report to superintendent, or police) if their employer told them to lie about criminal activity or activity that traumatizes and hurts children.  Don’t choose to work FCPS if this is asked of you. [/quote]

I don’t think anyone believes the principal knew and covered up that this kid was specifically doing this. I do think people know that it is not easy anymore thanks to district policies to suspend or expel students, which means it is very possible that this kid was referred for other concerning behaviors many times yet allowed to remain in school because the “discipline matrix” didn’t allow for them to be removed. This becomes especially murky when the student is a minority, an EL student, or a special education student because districts have data that shows those groups disproportionately receive higher rates and higher severity of discipline and schools have to ROBUSTLY document and justify disciplinary action for them.

These things can lead to situations where students are reported, written up, known to be “frequent flyers” AND remain in schools where, unfortunately, their actions can then escalate into things like this. [/quote]

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