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Friday, September 6, 2013

Ask Jay Mathews at the WPost if your child's teacher has restrictions

Your child’s teacher has been fired, and you are told you can’t know why because of privacy rules.
Years ago, I reported on the plight of a Montgomery County parent who thought her child had been traumatized by witnessing a teacher physically abuse other students. After the teacher was fired, the mother could not get anyone to describe what happened.
Kavits says what other school officials have told me in the past: “Administrators are strictly limited in what they can disclose.” I think school officials are blind to the consequences of such policies, so if it happens to you, e-mail me. We can see whether something can be done.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/9-school-complaints-from-parents-what-you-should-do-when-something-goes-wrong/2013/09/03/541ce568-0b79-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story_1.html

8 comments:

  1. There are few if any employers that will disclose more than an ex-employee's name, position held, and employment dates.

    Employers really are in a no-win situation: if they DO disclose the information, they can (and do) get sued by the ex-employee if that information prevents him/her from obtaining other employment.
    If they DON'T disclose the information, they could be pulled into a lawsuit by a subsequent employer.

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    1. It's students that are losing. Guess you forgot about them.

      No teacher should ever be placed in a classroom with restrictions on their ability to touch or interact with students.

      All MCPS has to do is say one easy sentence, "There are no teachers with restrictions on their ability to touch or interact with their students in classrooms." Easy. Get those teachers out NOW!

      It should be illegal for a public school system to place a teacher in a classroom with such unconscionable restrictions. We have now seen the consequences. It's time to end this long standing MCPS practice! That's a WIN for students!

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  2. The article wasn't about restrictions. It was about not releasing the reason a teacher was fired.

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    1. Exactly. Violate restrictions, get fired. Parents need to know if a teacher is restricted, what the restrictions are, and if the restrictions were violated. It's called doing what is in the BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD.

      Sadly, the children don't have a union.

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  3. Janis Sartucci is so far off base on her "restrictions" rant. Out-of-control, egomaniac administrators often "write up" male teachers because they generally are not sheep. If you eliminated every male teacher who has a reprimand, memo to the record, restriction, etc., you would have an female teaching sorority.

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    1. So that's what the restrictions on Lawrence Joynes were? Out of control, egomaniac administrators? Really. Tell that to his victims over the last 20 years.

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  4. @5:51 State - Sorry. Not happening. Your comments about MCPS children are not going up.

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  5. @reality check - Students don't have to say a word in the Joynes case. The pictures tell the story.

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