Ummmmm.....so you're saying Mr. Kim is a victim of a sucky job and we should all be thankful the problem is "getting better"?

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Anonymous wrote:Going to get worse as time goes on because the school board has gotten more liberal.

No. It is likely to get worse as time goes by because there is a nationwide and state-wide teacher shortage and so people are getting temporary licenses, fast-track programs, and schools are having to be less selective about who to hire/retain and they still can't find enough. This teacher and administrator shortage has many contributing factors, but is largely in response to the culture of teacher-bashing, the lack of professional flexibility due to the residue of No Child Left Behind and its emphasis on standardized testing, and a perception of relative low teacher pay compared to the required educational commitments and the day-to-day challenges of the job. People can make more money creating a private LLC as a tutoring company in the DMV than they can make as teachers and have much more professional control and sense of agency. As less competent and prepared teachers are hired, we're going to see the stronger ones leaving as there is little flexibility to reward excellence with higher pay.

This is completely baseless. This is an old problem that has actually gotten better, not worse. It's about administrators and good old boy (or girl) networks covering up wrongdoing. Sexual abuse was much more widespread and rarely exposed 50 years ago, when the media was less powerful and less pervasive. in FCPS we still have a lot of people from that generation trying to cover up everything that looks bad, and that's actually the main job of the assistant superintendents (as most of them practice it). And you can't make any money tutoring as an LLC unless you have a big capital investment and a lot of persistence and a little luck - it's currently one of the most competitive industries in this area.

Moreover, teacher pay in this area is not low. It's high. Benefits are incomparable. People can't stand the job because it just plain sucks, and the main reason for that is the all-powerful building administrators who treat their schools like their private kingdoms. Combine that amount of daily disrespect and powerlessness with the fact that the average teacher in FCPS works 55-60 hours a week (on AVERAGE) - most of that spent in pointless admin-directed meetings - and no one really wants to do that job for long.

Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim was a nasty guy who was a not-so-great math teacher at Fairfax High School for several years. There were enough rumors of favoritism towards female students, inappropriate discussions with students about being a baby-daddy, weird nicknames for students etc., and late stay-afters and dinners that should have alarmed many people.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/fairfax-high-teacher-accused-of-having-sexual-relationship-with-student/2019/11/21/d6b413f0-0c82-11ea-8397-a955cd542d00_story.html

It probably did. But as anyone who has ever tried to report anything knows, FCPS is all about the CYA policy and all the administrators and assistant superintendents do is try to cover everything up. They'll even threaten parents in order to do it. They don't want to expose problems or even stop them; their only goal is to prevent them from becoming public.

Anonymous wrote:Going to get worse as time goes on because the school board has gotten more liberal.

No. It is likely to get worse as time goes by because there is a nationwide and state-wide teacher shortage and so people are getting temporary licenses, fast-track programs, and schools are having to be less selective about who to hire/retain and they still can't find enough. This teacher and administrator shortage has many contributing factors, but is largely in response to the culture of teacher-bashing, the lack of professional flexibility due to the residue of No Child Left Behind and its emphasis on standardized testing, and a perception of relative low teacher pay compared to the required educational commitments and the day-to-day challenges of the job. People can make more money creating a private LLC as a tutoring company in the DMV than they can make as teachers and have much more professional control and sense of agency. As less competent and prepared teachers are hired, we're going to see the stronger ones leaving as there is little flexibility to reward excellence with higher pay.

Thank you! So weird that people are either so self-important that they have to nitpick and ignore the bigger issue, OR they are apologists for criminal behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

You need to calm down.

+1 There’s a difference between child molestation and statuatory rape. And please understand I am not condoning either. But you are confusing molestation with statuatory rape.

+0.5. As a legal matter, they're different, but I think lawyers/legal-minded people need to take off those hats and view the situation from a more emotional/human perspective and consider the case in its context. Yes, it may be statutory rape, but in a parent's eyes there really is no difference between this type of statutory rape and molestation/child abuse. A man who is at least (and possibly more) ten years older used his power of authority psychologically manipulated a young person to have sex with him.

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Anonymous wrote:There was also a FCPS assistant principal stealing merchandise from Target in Reston some time ago.

Which AP and which school?

5 second Google search:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wjla.com/amp/news/local/northern-virginia-assistant-principal-arrested-after-caught-stealing-from-target

Is it true she’s now AP at Rachel Carson MS?? That can’t be right.

Charges were dropped I believe

But why were charges dropped? Did she in fact steal $690 worth of merchandise? The security video showed it!

Innocent until proven guilty; proven beyond a reasonable doubt. I guess there was sufficient doubt for them prosecutor to drop the case.

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Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

You need to calm down.

+1 There’s a difference between child molestation and statuatory rape. And please understand I am not condoning either. But you are confusing molestation with statuatory rape.

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Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

Child molestation generally refers to a sexual relationship or sexual contact with a prepubescent child.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

You need to calm down.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

Perhaps the student was 17. I wouldn’t consider it molestation. Statuatory rape maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Daniel Kim also ran a side business: Hope he never molested any of those kids like he did at Fairfax High School:
https://www.clariumeducation.com.

Molestation? Sounds like he basically had a relationship with a student. I think that’s different from “molesting”.

Jesus H. Christ. A sexual relationship with an underage student when you are supposed to be a trusted adult and are in a position of power IS molestation/child abuse/sexual assault.
WTF is wrong with you? Sounds like you've got some uncovering to do about what you did to some kid or what was done to you when you were a kid. Despicable!

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I know a teacher who acted like a bipolar or other personality disorder and is still employed by FCPS.

How do you act bipolar?

By having wild mood swings, rages, and depression.

Lol do you people know anything about mental illness? Bipolar disorder is very common. There are people in every career who have it. Most people with it aren’t the way you’re describing. Clearly none of you work in the psych field... it’s actually closely related to ADD/ADHD. That is also a mood disorder and many of you push for your child to be diagnosed as ADD/ADHD... why all the crap talk about a chemical imbalance? Geez.