DERWOOD, Md. (ABC7) - A Magruder High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave while police investigate allegations he or she engaged in "inappropriate conduct" with a student.
On Monday evening, Magruder Principal Leroy Evans sent an email alerting parents and students about the concerning situation.
"MCPS is fully cooperating with the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) and the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office on this matter and the teacher has been placed on administrative leave while MCPD investigates," Evans wrote...
Below is the video of the June 15th BOE Policy Committee meeting. At minute 17:50 you can hear BOE member Phil Kauffman talk about the "infamous" secret MCPS database of staff suspected of sexually abusing students.
Phil Kauffman: "...In the past, I think that's where we were collecting this database, I guess, called the infamous database, um [ BOE member Rebecca Smondrowski laughs out loud] where I would say that these were innocent things being collected in a database and, but, maybe if you have 20 innocent incidents this looks like this isn't so innocent anymore. It looks like we are not planning to keep this database anymore..."
MCPS staff, Josh Civin: "We took out of the Protocols references to an Inappropriate Interactions Database while we are looking into that, with some concerns on that..."
Mr. Kauffman seems to think that the Infamous Database was used for innocent incidents. Maybe Mr. Kauffman should talk to some of MCPS elementary school teacher Lawrence Joynes' 15+ victims (here, here, here, and here) and see if he still considers those incidents "innocent."
As to Rebecca Smondrowski's outburst of laughter during this discussion, in what society is harboring sex offenders in public schools for decades anything to laugh about, ever?
