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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"MCPS is just a broken, dysfunctional school system."

+1.  Cannot believe has didn't roll over what happened in Damascus. Cannot believe they're still allowed to play football. Cannot believe Kevin Sullivan, Jack Smith, Andrew Zuckerman, still have jobs. WTF![/quote]

Jeff Sullivan, MCPS System-Wide Athletic Director, has covered up serious problems of abuse at other high schools.  Damascus just happened to make the news cycle, national and international (BBC).  He runs athletics like his own little kingdom.  The school ADs answer to him and operate their athletic programs under different rules than the rest of the school system that lack adherence to policies and protections for students against abuse.

Jack Smith has actively worked to manipulate and interfere with police investigations to the point officers could not make an arrest.  He has failed to report abuse before victims and witnesses have been interviewed by MCPS.  It's not a coincidence that the Damascus principal interviewed the entire JV Football team BEFORE the police.

Andrew Zuckerman tries to clean up messes in MCPS and he is the puppet master for Jack Smith.  He is cunning and manipulative.  For any bad decisions he makes, he sets up others to take the fall including Jack Smith.

Donna Hollingshead - Director of Compliance.  What happened to the victims of Damascus was a Title IX violation.  Has she informed the JV football team of their rights under Title IX?  What the heck is she doing to improve the safety of students in MCPS schools?  Why hasn't she cleaned up the mess in MCPS Athletics?  She has spouted about great initiatives over the last two years to protect students from child abuse, however, she has failed to implement policies at the school level or even personally fix issues when problems have been reported.

BTW - what is the process to report child abuse in MCPS after you have contacted Child Protective Services and the police?  What is the magic form to get supports and protections for your child after you find out your child was abused?  In three  years since the Board of Education has passed their policy on Child Abuse and Neglect, MCPS has failed to come up with the form and process to follow to help the victims of abuse that are in its schools.

All of the above people need to go.  Most of the Board needs to go because they know of cases of child abuse that the victims were re victimized by MCPS's indifference to fixing the situation.  There needs to be systemwide improvements or children will keep being abused in MCPS.  There needs to be accountability when abuse occurs to fire / expelled those who hurt children and fire employees who failed to protect the victims.[/quote]

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