MCPS has highlighted the firm’s specialty in education and employment law, to which Gross asked, “What the hell does employment have to do with sexual harassment and child abuse?”
“This principal was making lewd, sexual comments to children,” Gross said, in reference to allegations that Beidleman described middle school girls dressing and acting “like hoes and thots” during two 2018 Farquhar assemblies. “This move is akin to telling someone who has a broken leg to go see a dermatologist. Why? Because a dermatologist won’t know what they’re looking for, so who’s going to come out looking rosy on the other side?”..
McKnight pledges ‘open communication’ in Beidleman investigation (moco360.media)
From the MoCo360 article:
ReplyDelete"Community members on Tuesday blasted the law firm selection and other aspects of MCPS’ response. "
The extent to which MoCo360 will go to avoid crediting the Parents' Coalition is just incredible. It's also a violation of journalist ethics (although no one is claiming that MoCo360 is a legitimate news source, so I guess they can do what they want).
Why doesn't CPS take the lead?
ReplyDeletehttps://dhs.maryland.gov/child-protective-services/
I was going to say SAO, but you got to hand it to them otherwise they'll drop it. . .
DeleteHow can this article not mention the Parents' Coalition which broke the story in the first place, did the actual investigation, and followed up. If not for the Parents' Coalition none of this would have come out azt all, including about the collusion MCPS has with this law firm. Whatever happened to journalistic ethics. Where are the editors.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be too much separation of duties and compartmentalization in this county.
Delete“We’re powerless,” he said of the county government in relation to the school district. “We’re sort of like a money machine.”
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they treat this under Title IX?
Who is on first?
Delete" – and so the council does have "power of the purse" over the school."
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-college-professor-fired-after-making-female-students-take-their-shirts-off-in-class-doe-report-department-of-education
"In May, the Council approved $3.165 billion in funding for MCPS next fiscal year, which will be funded in part by a 4.7-cent property tax hike. "
ReplyDeleteThe inmates are running the asylum. . .
The idiots are running (ruining) the education system
DeleteYou mean: The inmates are running(ruining) the asylum.
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