Showing posts with label Maniya Jules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maniya Jules. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Former assistant principal convicted of DUI will work in MCPS central office

An administrator who left Damascus High School after a driving while impaired conviction has left her latest position at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School for a job at the district’s central office.
Maniya Jules was at Lee Middle School in Silver Spring for one month. In a letter to families last week, Lee Principal Kim Hayden-Williams announced that Jules would move to Montgomery County Public Schools’ Equity Initiative Unit.
When Jules pleaded guilty in July to driving while ability impaired for a second time, parents criticized the school system for letting her stay in her job. Shortly after, she was reassigned to Lee, where she was an assistant principal from July 1 to Aug. 5...

Saturday, July 27, 2019

@mcps Admin. Says: "The lack of compliance to county and state policy is so widespread that it was an unacceptable way to do business."

...In 1997, Montgomery County Public Schools hired Jules as a special education teacher. Over the years she rose the ranks to the administration level.
Arora explained that Jules' job at Damascus High School was negatively impacted by the October 31, JV football team locker room sexual assaults. The case rocked the tight knit community and quickly made national headlines due, in large part, to the sheer brutality and alleged negligence by school leaders.
"Ms. Jules’ department was being questioned pretty heavily and pretty routinely," Arora noted. "She was being asked to provide statements on a regular basis, answer to parents, things of that nature."
The workdays were long and the worknights consisted of drinking copious amounts of alcohol to cope with persistent police investigators and upset parents...
..."I never witnessed and experienced a more challenging and stressful work assignment. The lack of compliance to county and state policy is so widespread that it was an unacceptable way to do business...
...Despite the two, recent DWI convictions, Jules has managed to keep her administrative job with MCPS...

..."If on my probation you pick up another drunk driving offense and I hear about it, short of an extraordinary reason, I will give you all of the backup time. And that is to hopefully help deter you from picking up another drunk driving offense," the judge said during the December 2017 sentencing hearing.

Jules' second DWI arrest occurred 15 months later, within her 18-month probation window. It remains unclear why the judge in the first case did not keep to his word of imposing all of the "backup time" for failure to comply.

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Lee Middle School Parents Voice Concern About New Assistant Principal

Some parents at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring are questioning the hiring of a new administrator who started at the school Monday, the same day she was sentenced for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Maniya Jules, 51, of Potomac pled guilty on Monday and was sentenced to 60 days in jail with all but two days suspended by a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge, according to court records. Jules was placed on three years of probation with conditions that she abstain from alcohol and receive professional treatment, according to court records. Jules was also fined $250 and the judge ordered an interlock device be installed on her car that requires the driver to blow into a mouthpiece before starting the vehicle.
Jules, who was assistant principal at Damascus High School at the time of her arrest, was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2017, according to court records.
In late June, Lee Middle School Principal Kimberly Hayden Williams sent a letter to community members announcing Jules was reassigned to the school and will serve as an assistant principal.

“She is bringing a wealth of knowledge and experiences to Lee Middle school and we are looking forward to welcoming her to our community,” the principal wrote...

Thursday, June 27, 2019

ABC7: Ex-Damascus asst. principal charged with 2 DUIs assigned to new job at middle school

A former assistant principal at Damascus High School who was charged with drunk driving twice in less than two years will become an assistant principal at Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring...

https://wjla.com/news/local/damascus-dui-middle-school-mcps

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

ABC7: Damascus H.S. assistant principal charged with 2nd DWI, arrest caught on body camera

An assistant principal at Damascus High School is on personal leave after police charged her with drunk driving for the second time in less than two years.
Maniya Jules, 50, a 22-year veteran of the Montgomery County Public Schools system, is facing jail time for her alleged improper behavior.
Around 12:45 a.m. on Friday, March 22, an officer was dispatched to the 8800 block of Tuckerman Lane in Potomac for a suspicious vehicle call. According to law enforcement sources, that officer found Jules behind the wheel of a Honda with two flat tires. The disabled vehicle was idling on the side of the road near Herbert Hoover Middle School...