Reumante was sentenced recently: https://moco360.media/2024/02/14/former-northwood-high-coach-sentenced-for-sexual-abuse-of-student/

A former track and field coach, security assistant and paraeducator at Northwood High School is expected to serve one year in prison and will be listed as a sex offender for life after he was sentenced Wednesday for the sexual abuse of a student, according to the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Michael McAuliffe sentenced Giovanni Reumante, 34, of Takoma Park to five years, with all but one year suspended, and three years of supervised probation upon release, the State’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release. As part of a plea agreement, Reumante waived two years of credit for time served.

Reumante pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of a minor on Nov. 1, 2022, according to the release.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A positive note due to COVID - all MCPS athletics over night travel has been suspended till January 16th. Does not address the long term dangers to child safety and lack of administrative supervision these trips have.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cRk4wgXVbmcjhIzNO3uIq4nNA5MdHsH/view

Reumante was a Cross Country and Track coach who traveled out of state for overnight trips with Northwood High School students. MCPS should be concerned with that fact and re-examine the protocols for when teams travel or even if teams should be allowed to travel overnight.

The timing of the COVID travel ban happens to align with a major track meet in Virginia Beach that several MCPS track teams were already registered to compete. Extending the travel ban date to January 16th prohibits MCPS track teams from participating in this meet.

https://va.milesplit.com/meets/426603-the-va-showcase-2022/teams#.YdL8iyU8LYU

But he was sexually abusing a student inside of a school building. No travel needed.

You don’t think there’s a higher danger for a trip involving hotel rooms and basically no supervision? Also, not all the abuse occurred on school premises.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A positive note due to COVID - all MCPS athletics over night travel has been suspended till January 16th. Does not address the long term dangers to child safety and lack of administrative supervision these trips have.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cRk4wgXVbmcjhIzNO3uIq4nNA5MdHsH/view

Reumante was a Cross Country and Track coach who traveled out of state for overnight trips with Northwood High School students. MCPS should be concerned with that fact and re-examine the protocols for when teams travel or even if teams should be allowed to travel overnight.

The timing of the COVID travel ban happens to align with a major track meet in Virginia Beach that several MCPS track teams were already registered to compete. Extending the travel ban date to January 16th prohibits MCPS track teams from participating in this meet.

https://va.milesplit.com/meets/426603-the-va-showcase-2022/teams#.YdL8iyU8LYU

But he was sexually abusing a student inside of a school building. No travel needed.

Search Reumante and you can see the charges and that he is out on bond. Offenses were 1/1/2015 to 12/31/2017:

https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/

Anonymous wrote:A positive note due to COVID - all MCPS athletics over night travel has been suspended till January 16th. Does not address the long term dangers to child safety and lack of administrative supervision these trips have.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cRk4wgXVbmcjhIzNO3uIq4nNA5MdHsH/view

Reumante was a Cross Country and Track coach who traveled out of state for overnight trips with Northwood High School students. MCPS should be concerned with that fact and re-examine the protocols for when teams travel or even if teams should be allowed to travel overnight.

The timing of the COVID travel ban happens to align with a major track meet in Virginia Beach that several MCPS track teams were already registered to compete. Extending the travel ban date to January 16th prohibits MCPS track teams from participating in this meet.

https://va.milesplit.com/meets/426603-the-va-showcase-2022/teams#.YdL8iyU8LYU

A positive note due to COVID - all MCPS athletics over night travel has been suspended till January 16th. Does not address the long term dangers to child safety and lack of administrative supervision these trips have.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14cRk4wgXVbmcjhIzNO3uIq4nNA5MdHsH/view

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they go virtual soon to protect kids from these pedos.

What? How does this make sense?

It was a joke

Well there was a huge drop in allegations against MCPS employees during online learning.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/40-allegations-of-abuse-by-mcps-staff-reported-in-2021/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they go virtual soon to protect kids from these pedos.

What? How does this make sense?

It was a joke

Going back to PPs previous point of some type external investigator -

When MCPS does an internal investigation, data is selectively reviewed. It’s often a situation of a student vs. an employee. MCPS is not transparent with the evidence it gathers because of “employee privacy”. Principals and Athletic Directors can have implicit biases to protect the employees that they hired. Often, there are personal relationships of working with an employee for years that can cloud their objectivity regarding an allegation. Finally, there’s a corporate culture in MCPS to protect the institution at all cost by denying that a serious problem exists.

Social media of students in 2020 highlighted how schools dismiss students who come forward to report. The magnet program at Blair had a teacher that was reported for years but the complaints were ignored.

This is an example of the consequences when a person who is exhibiting grossly inappropriate behavior with students remains employed by MCPS after the behavior is repeatedly witnessed, reported, and documented. He sexually abused elementary students for 15 years till the police arrested him. This is why the Employee Code of Conduct needs to have teeth and staff should be terminated (not reprimanded) for offenses:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/he-was-warned-about-getting-too-close-to-students-but-this-maryland-teacher-was-allowed-to-stay-in-the-classroom/2017/08/25/5ac2ad76-7bbe-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html

Child predators would be weeded out of the school system with enforcement of the Code of Conduct. Judge staff by their actions and clearly if it’s known that you do XYZ you will be fired and you do XYZ, you identified an employee whose a liability for child safety.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

For the hundredth time MCPS does NOT do a background check on anyone. If there is a former employer in the education field a phone call is made plus the routine NCIC check which might show previous arrests. No more. No less. A proper background check can take up to a year. No way that MCPS can do that with 2000 new hires per year.

This is an example of MCPS not doing a comprehensive background check:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-who-lost-license-in-fla-went-on-to-teach-in-two-md-districts/165408/%3famp

This is another example:



https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/richard-montgomery-high-school-security-leader-wanted-for-violating-bond-in-sex-abuse-case/

I am not sure what you consider a background check. I was fingerprinted, had my previous employer called and they searched for a criminal record on me. If that is not a background check, I am not sure what you consider acceptable.

Read the links. MCPS doesn’t do the criminal record search - particularly if offenses were out of state. All you know is that they took your finger prints.

I forgot to add that I am an MCPS teacher.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

For the hundredth time MCPS does NOT do a background check on anyone. If there is a former employer in the education field a phone call is made plus the routine NCIC check which might show previous arrests. No more. No less. A proper background check can take up to a year. No way that MCPS can do that with 2000 new hires per year.

This is an example of MCPS not doing a comprehensive background check:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-who-lost-license-in-fla-went-on-to-teach-in-two-md-districts/165408/%3famp

This is another example:



https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/richard-montgomery-high-school-security-leader-wanted-for-violating-bond-in-sex-abuse-case/

I am not sure what you consider a background check. I was fingerprinted, had my previous employer called and they searched for a criminal record on me. If that is not a background check, I am not sure what you consider acceptable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

For the hundredth time MCPS does NOT do a background check on anyone. If there is a former employer in the education field a phone call is made plus the routine NCIC check which might show previous arrests. No more. No less. A proper background check can take up to a year. No way that MCPS can do that with 2000 new hires per year.

This is an example of MCPS not doing a comprehensive background check:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-who-lost-license-in-fla-went-on-to-teach-in-two-md-districts/165408/%3famp

This is another example:

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/richard-montgomery-high-school-security-leader-wanted-for-violating-bond-in-sex-abuse-case/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

For the hundredth time MCPS does NOT do a background check on anyone. If there is a former employer in the education field a phone call is made plus the routine NCIC check which might show previous arrests. No more. No less. A proper background check can take up to a year. No way that MCPS can do that with 2000 new hires per year.

This is an example of MCPS not doing a comprehensive background check:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teacher-who-lost-license-in-fla-went-on-to-teach-in-two-md-districts/165408/%3famp