3 educators & 2 parents "have told The Washington Post that they reported Joynes to school leaders for incidents they considered inappropriate."

...According to court documents, school leaders placed restrictions on Joynes in November 2011, after two complaints. Joynes was told not to touch children, be alone with them, sit in the cafeteria during lunch or stay on the playground during recess. His classroom door was to remain open, and he was to use staff restrooms, not those for students, documents say.

At least one case described in the court filings involves alleged abuse of a child after those school restrictions began... 

[And in the the ultimate PR move, Superintendent Starr recorded himself at a meeting and then gave The Washington Post the recording.  Parents don't deserve to hear from the Superintendent directly?] 

...The board discussion Wednesday came six days after Starr promised administrators and supervisors that he would provide additional training to school leaders on how to handle alleged or suspected abuse and said new procedures were being designed “to track these cases centrally,” according to a recording of Starr’s Aug. 15 remarks.
The improvements, he said, would help educators do a better job of investigating allegations. Still, Starr said, “in the end, we as leaders in the district must accept responsibility for relentlessly and unapologetically protecting children at all times.”
He added that all allegations require attention.
“I want to be really clear and direct about something: If a parent, a staff member or a student ever raises a concern about the conduct of one of our employees, we must take swift and appropriate steps to investigate as quickly as possible,” he said, according to the recording, which school system officials provided to The Post...

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/montgomery-leaders-to-examine-changes-after-abuse-allegations/2013/08/21/2dfa6230-0a97-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html