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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Oh, for heaven sakes. Now you’re just being ridiculous.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-mcdonogh-letter-20190410-story.html

If they’ve learned nothing because it’s still going that would indeed be horrible.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Oh, for heaven sakes. Now you’re just being ridiculous.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-county/bs-md-co-mcdonogh-letter-20190410-story.html

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Beauvoir. It was Beauvoir - and I expect that this post will last all of thirty seconds because whatever crisis management team that school hired expertly and exquisitely managed to remove all utterance of this horrible, horrible thing from DCUM, and probably elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Great to hear of schools that are quick to fire anyone who hints at the slightest bit of inappropriate behavior. No need to wait for any kind of proof of illegal abuse.

I know someone that happened too at a private school in Bethesda, the police rushed, took him in handcuffs, face was all over the place on the web. They went on a child telling their parents something happened. It turns out she was angry with the teacher for something else and case was dismissed but parents were slamming him on line and everything. They sold him down the river before investigation. Judge dismissed it immediately.

We did privates in Bethesda for a long time, but don’t remember that one. Which school?

Anonymous wrote:Great to hear of schools that are quick to fire anyone who hints at the slightest bit of inappropriate behavior. No need to wait for any kind of proof of illegal abuse.

I know someone that happened too at a private school in Bethesda, the police rushed, took him in handcuffs, face was all over the place on the web. They went on a child telling their parents something happened. It turns out she was angry with the teacher for something else and case was dismissed but parents were slamming him on line and everything. They sold him down the river before investigation. Judge dismissed it immediately.

Great to hear of schools that are quick to fire anyone who hints at the slightest bit of inappropriate behavior. No need to wait for any kind of proof of illegal abuse.

So I am a former teacher at one of the fancy dc privates. This makes my stomach turn. I don’t know that I overlapped with any abusers, but the 15 years I worked at my school I am sure I did. We are trained, by some fancy big law firm, during the days leading up to school every year about mandated reporting, what to look out for, various forms of abuse etc. obviously if a kid told me about abuse or suspected abuse of any kind I would report it but I doubt I would suspect another teacher of many year who is well liked of abuse. One coach at my school was fired for embarrassing students at practice and having “punishments” like running and push-ups and singling kids out for that. That came from internal reporting of a student complaining to the advisor. I know many teachers, especially young females, who have babysat/petsat/house sat/tutored students.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

They aren’t harboring pedofiles and it’s not a continued there, either. They just had a couple unfortunate people working there but to harbor them, seriously?

Again, I said CONTINUED teacher sex abuser issues. I don’t know of one single school beyond Gilman that has the expose of two teacher pedophiles, and immediately has yet another one coming on board. Or did they actually overlap?

I didn’t say “harboring pedophiles”. You did.

2 teachers in 80 years doesn’t really say they have an ongoing issue. We hear about the Catholic Church way more in the News than Gilman

Please name the year(s) that Gilman did NOT have a pedophile teacher on its payroll.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

They aren’t harboring pedofiles and it’s not a continued there, either. They just had a couple unfortunate people working there but to harbor them, seriously?

Again, I said CONTINUED teacher sex abuser issues. I don’t know of one single school beyond Gilman that has the expose of two teacher pedophiles, and immediately has yet another one coming on board. Or did they actually overlap?

I didn’t say “harboring pedophiles”. You did.

2 teachers in 80 years doesn’t really say they have an ongoing issue. We hear about the Catholic Church way more in the News than Gilman

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

They aren’t harboring pedofiles and it’s not a continued there, either. They just had a couple unfortunate people working there but to harbor them, seriously?

Again, I said CONTINUED teacher sex abuser issues. I don’t know of one single school beyond Gilman that has the expose of two teacher pedophiles, and immediately has yet another one coming on board. Or did they actually overlap?

I didn’t say “harboring pedophiles”. You did.

What is your solution, to have only Gilman staff trained or can you understand, possibly that it could happen at your school with no training, intact yet, right? Why wait for the first time it happens? Get the training instituted at your school immediately.

I’m the one who mentioned grooming the community. Yes, Bendann pulled the wool over peoples’ eyes- no question. My point is that what that looks like, is a wonderful guy that had a great reputation. That’s who we’re looking for. That’s who to be especially watchful of.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

They aren’t harboring pedofiles and it’s not a continued there, either. They just had a couple unfortunate people working there but to harbor them, seriously?

Again, I said CONTINUED teacher sex abuser issues. I don’t know of one single school beyond Gilman that has the expose of two teacher pedophiles, and immediately has yet another one coming on board. Or did they actually overlap?

I didn’t say “harboring pedophiles”. You did.

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

They aren’t harboring pedofiles and it’s not a continued there, either. They just had a couple unfortunate people working there but to harbor them, seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

+1. “He groomed the community” to me means he pulled the wool over their eyes, and they fell for it. Not one adult stayed vigilant. The perp was 37 years old. Aren’t senior “trained” administrators supposed to be smarter than him? Apparently, their sex abuser out-foxed them all for 15 years.

Is there no hope for the future of the school when the most prevalent response seems to be “it can happen anywhere”. Is there nothing administrators can do about preventing the next predator from assaulting their students?

If a coach gets arrested, do you not let your kid be coached by males anymore? Yes, it can happen anywhere, o matter how trained the staff is, certain people slip through the cracks, unfortunately and yes, anywhere and everywhere. There are private schools right here in dc, that have dealt with this, too

Please name one single DC area school dealing with *continued* teacher sex abuse scandals. Zero.

Are you new to the dc area? Look it up, as there was a photography teacher from a very prestigious dc school that was on the fbi most wanted list after it was found out he had inappropriate pics of students on his phone.

Do you understand the word *continued*? Like at Gilman.

Anonymous wrote:It does not have a cult-like following. We are a former Gilman family, and we loved our time there. That doesn't make it cult-like. The Baltimore Banner article quoted someone as saying Bendann "groomed the community" which is another way of saying he was well-liked and well-thought of. I'm sure there is some way of protecting kids 100%. My personal goal is to also retain what is wonderful about Gilman.

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