Before a wealthy D.C. suburb’s inspector general reported this month that criminal background checks were outdated for more than 12,000 current school employees – nearly half the district –d and that about 4,900 who “may have access to children” hadn’t undergone screening by Child Protective Services, Montgomery County Public Schools had already lashed out.
Superintendent Thomas Taylor accused IG Megan Limarzi of “lack of rigor” and “glaring inaccuracies” in a July 25 response to the preview, claiming his staff was “working around the clock to accomplish the due diligence that, regrettably, your office failed to do.”
The searing accusations were gone by Wednesday, however, when Taylor thanked Limarzi in front of reporters “for elevating this” and catching the school district’s failure to enroll employees hired before 2019 in the “continuous check program” RapBack. He said it will take “several months” to complete more rigorous screening, local news-radio station WTOP reported.
The RapBack snapback calls into question two years of representations by MCPS on another explosive issue, its refusal to notify parents ahead of LGBTQ lessons for children as young as 3 and let them opt out, in the reportedly most religiously diverse county in America.
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Author: Joe Weber
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