Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: Catherine Jasperse

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Closer Look: MCPS Principal Taught to Sit in Chair with Back to Door to Keep Student in Closed Room

The Parents' Coalition has obtained documents from the recent litigation by former teachers at Kemp Mill Elementary School versus the Montgomery County Board of Education.

This July 19, 2010, memorandum from the Kemp Mill Elementary School principal to Ann Kamenstein, Coordinator of the MCPS Department of Performance Evaluation and Compliance, describes the procedure by which the Kemp Mill principal or other adult would restrain a student in a very small room by sitting in a chair with their back to the closed door. The Kemp Mill principal says that he learned this procedure while at Broad Acres Elementary School working under principal Jody Leleck and principal intern Catherine Jasperse.

Does this procedure comply with Maryland law?

2010 July 19 by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland

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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