The Washington Post takes an Interest in PA Sex Abuse Report, but No Similar Interest in MCPS Cases

"Ten news organizations, including the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and The Washington Post, joined in a brief urging the release of the grand jury report."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/07/27/pennsylvania-supreme-court-oks-release-of-900-page-grand-jury-report-about-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b54148d16483

The Montgomery County Council's Education Committee held a hearing on the sex abuse cases in Montgomery County Public Schools on April 25, 2018, and The Washington Post did not deem that meeting newsworthy.  They did not cover the meeting or what was revealed (read our blog posts at this link).

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2018/04/today-at-county-counci-jack-smith.html

BOE wants @pcmc1 Tweet "taken down" - .@mocoboe Superintendent Jack Smith told the County Council's Ed Committee in open session that he has a zero tolerance policy on incidents of staff and sexual assault; that he can be overridden by Board of Education. True/False?

A Montgomery County Board of Education member has e-mailed to the Parents' Coalition requesting that we take down the following Tweet.

"police" should be policy

The Board member had BOE Chief of Staff Roland Ikheloa watch the video of the Montgomery County Council's Education Committee meeting referenced in the Tweet.  Mr. Ikheloa concluded,

 "...I watched the entire video and cannot come up with any statement by the superintendent remotely justifying the quoted tweet below by the Parents Coalition..."

Below are video clips from the April 25, 2018, Montgomery County Council Briefing- MCPS Child Abuse & Neglect Policy.

Councilmember George Leventhal, "I understand the Superintendent to be saying that these charges, if found to be true lead to immediate dismissal..."



Superintendent Smith says, "... I feel so strongly about this and I believe so much that we can not even allow people to resign when it is found they have done these sorts of things, they must be terminated..."

Superintendent Smith says. "... I, of course, make the recommendation to the school board, the school board acts..."

Now is the @pcmc1 Tweet of the statement by the superintendent remotely justified?

Superintendent Jack R. Smith Mentally Wrote Resignation Letter on February 14, 2018

At the April 25, 2018, Montgomery County Council Education Committee meeting Superintendent Jack R. Smith revealed how overwhelmed he felt on February 14, 2018, and how his wife talked to him the next day during the crisis that he was having and convinced him to not resign.