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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The need to actually do a real background check on all MCPS employees, including a finger print.

Why?  Because most of the people who are committing these crimes have done it before but have not been caught.  For whatever the reason they are able to get away with it, the kids don't talk, they are scared to talk etc.  But if their finger prints are required to be on record, chances are they will never apply in fears that at sometime in the past they left a finger print in the past.  The county is too cheap to actually do this so this is what we are left with.  [/quote]

MCPS employee here. Fingerprinting is already a part of the background check. In most of these cases it seems like these people are getting caught for the first time, so even yearly checks might not help. Frankly, I'd like to see some kind of system in place for monitoring suspicious employees. I've known teachers who I get a bad feeling about and there is nothing to do but watch and be ready to report.[/quote]

But sometimes they do get reports but the administration doesn't do anything. Like the after care provider for Kids Adventures who was arrested. Apparently there were complaints several years before it happened and the old principal ignored them.[/quote]

I work for the county too and have a colleague who doesn’t seem to have lost their job despite getting a domestic violence conviction. It’s disgusting. I’ve started checking that public case search for alll my kid’s teachers in the county, and you wouldn’t believe the stuff I turn up. [b]Half the problem isn’t that HR doesn’t know, it’s that they don’t consider some godawful behavior to be fireable offenses. [/b][/quote]

+1000 - HR doesn't think the violations of the MCPS Employee Code of Conduct are fireable offenses until news is breaking of the arrest.  I would suppose the domestic violence conviction did not make the evening news.

Sexual violence of this magnitude against a child needs the atmosphere of secrecy and privacy for the predator to attempt the act.  In the MCPS Code of Conduct, it specifically uses the example that a teacher should not be alone with a student in a locked classroom or a classroom with the lights off with a child.  How is being alone on a school bus with a child any different?  Same for employees who put students alone with them in a car and drive them off campus.  MCPS should take known offenses of these policies seriously.  Prevention means that these types of offenses are one strike and you are out policies which thus far is not the case in MCPS.

In this particular situation, the aide should have remain with the bus at all times.  The parent / caregiver of the child should come to the bus to get the child.  Period.  No exceptions.  All aides and bus drivers with special needs children should know this by now with the retraining MCPS says has taken place.  If not, a memo and mandatory meeting of all bus drivers and aides is urgently needed.  Parents / caregivers should also be informed that they are required to come to the bus to get the child.  There are MCPS procedures for when a parent / caregiver is not at a bus stop on time that the bus driver should follow.[/quote]

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