SHADY GROVE MS STAFFER SUSPENDED OVER ‘INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR’ DURING VIRTUAL CLASS

A Shady Grove Middle School staff member has been placed on administrative leave while the school district investigates his involvement in an incident during a virtual class session on Monday that was “sexual in nature,” according to a Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) spokeswoman.

Principal Alana Murray wrote in a letter sent to parents on Tuesday that the “staff member was seen on screen in a breakout room engaged in inappropriate behavior” during an eighth grade class. 

The incident was reported to law enforcement and the MCPS central office, Murray told parents — and recorded by students and posted on social media...

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Police say no charges against school employee caught in inappropriate sexual behavior during video link with students

A paraeducator at Shady Grove Middle School who was seen masturbating on camera during a virtual link with students won’t be charged criminally, a police spokesman said on Thursday. Marc Schack, a paraeducator who works with special education students, told Bethesda Beat on Wednesday that he didn’t realize his behavior had been captured on video until a reporter asked him about it. Schack said he thought the Zoom video connection had been disabled... 

 https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/police-say-no-charges-against-school-employee-caught-in-inappropriate-sexual-behavior-during-video-link-with-students/

MCPS employee under investigation for inappropriate sexual behavior during video link with students, said he thought camera was off

...He said he has worked for MCPS for 21 years.

Schack said the school system called him on Monday to say he was being placed on administrative leave, telling him they had “misplaced his background check file.” 

“Maybe they were looking to see if I had any criminal misbehavior or anything like that,” he said.

But the district didn’t mention the video to him and he was not aware of it until Wednesday...

 https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/mcps-investigating-middle-school-employees-inappropriate-sexual-behavior-seen-during-virtual-class/