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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those who think this is a Board of Education problem haven't been to Board of Education meetings and have no idea what you are talking about.  Several of them [b]Jill Ortman Fouse as someone mentioned, Rebecca Smondrowsky, Jeanette Dixon, Shebra Evan's and even Pat O'Neill[/b] who people here love to vilify, have repeatedly asked the MCPS staff for more information about everything from maintenance orders (thousands outstanding), to numbers enrolled to COSA, etc.   Zuckerman and others either give BS answers or say we will get back to you and either don't or again, more BS answers.  Zuckerman is the puppet master, a Starr holdover (as someone else mentioned) and needs to go.  Along with many other central office staff.  Smith is working on this, but apparently not fast enough.  [/quote]

The Board Members if they cared should keep following up with MCPS for answers if they wanted to fix the school system.

All of the members you have mentioned have supported MCPS indifference to solving the child abuse epidemic in our public school system.  The case at Damascus made national headlines because the perpetrators arrested are children that are facing life in prison.  Jill Ortman House, Rebecca Smondrowsky, Jeanette Dixon, Shebra Evans, and Pat O'Neill have all accepted MCPS's platitudes as to what it is doing to prevent child abuse when there is evidence the school system has not followed Board policies or implemented a process for child abuse to be reported by parents.

If you go to the Child Abuse and Neglect website, what form on that website would you use to report child abuse to MCPS after you call CPS?  The only form on the website is for employees to report child abuse and by design, there is not much room for an employee to provide the pertinent details that CPS needs to trigger an investigation.

How long should you wait for MCPS to respond when you contact them regarding someone at school who is abusing students (it could be a staff member or student)?  The answer is there is no timeline or process developed by MCPS yet.

Then there is the common practice by MCPS to investigate prior to the police and/or CPS investigation.  If an MCPS administrator can screw up a case so it doesn't reflect poorly on their record as a school administrator, you bet they will try.

Current Board members are all complacent with MCPS's failure to adequately PREVENT child abuse from occurring.  The red flag that should have prevented the rapes at Damascus from occurring was the transfer of the student from Clarksburg and the provision of the athletic waiver by the MCPS System-wide Athletic Director.  MCPS should have not transfer the kid from Clarksburg due to disciplinary issues let alone provide him an athletic waiver.[/quote]

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