Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Angela Alsobrooks

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

House & Senate Bill would not apply to situations such as where persons at the US Olympics Committee or Michigan State University were told of allegations by minor gymnasts that they had been abused by Dr. Larry Nassar, even if they had spoken directly to the gymnasts

More on why the Bill proposed in the Maryland House and Senate to create criminal penalties for administrators who fail to report the sexual abuse of students will actually be a virtually useless law. Is this Bill being proposed to actually protect children or just to make legislators "look" like they are doing something?

Statement from Lynn McLain,

Professor and Dean Joseph Curtis Faculty Fellow Emerita,

University of Baltimore School of Law

The definition in Maryland House Bill 500 of its "knowledge" element as requiring "actual knowledge" will restrict its application to only those highly rare cases where the State could prove that the mandated reporter actually witnessed the child abuse or neglect as it was being committed.

Maryland House Bill 500 2018 Session by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Ex-Md. school aide sentenced to 100 years in child sex abuse case

Deonte Carraway, 23, a former elementary teacher’s aide at Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary School, pleaded guilty to 23 counts of sex abuse and child pornography charges stemming from the abuse of children as young as nine and 10 years old.

Some of the abuse took place on school grounds and much of it was recorded via cellphone and social media apps, according to prosecutors. Carraway had been indicted last summer on a total of 270 state counts of child sex abuse and other charges.

At a sentencing hearing Thursday in the Prince George’s Courthouse in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Carraway was sentenced to a total of 395 years, with all but 100 years of that sentence suspended...

...At the news conference after the sentence on the state charges, Alsobrooks called the Carraway case “a miserable failure” for children in the Prince George’s County school system and in the community.

http://wtop.com/prince-georges-county/2017/09/ex-md-school-aide-appear-court-270-sex-crime-charges/

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Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

E-mail: parentscoalitionmc AT outlook.com

What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011