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Where were the administrators? For such a great area, this school really has been plagued with a lot of issues...extremely high admin turn-over, multiple suicides, bullying and fight-clubs, and now this. What goes on here?
That principal got information about an over 50 year old male teacher giving students rides home, that principlal was given info on lots of abuse of resources and wasted time by teachers in that achool, if that principal has not come forward to the authorities about the info he was given about a specific teacher and witnesses saying they were abused by that teacher, that would have prevented this latest abuse then that principlal should be fired no questions asked
Anotger teacher at that school admitted he has a drinking problem but is able to hide that working at Thoreau, what is it about that school that seems to be able to waste so much time on things besides helping students? Is it the leadership or that teachers ability to hide his alcoholism? His sister was kicked out of teaching at Marshall high school after she was caught giving alcohol to students, alcoholism is wrecking the ability of students getting proper education
This county is slowly sinking and certainly isn’t what it used to be. I have heard many things regarding this school over the years. Something should be done!
I went to Thoreau back in the 60s. One day the gym teacher threw a volley ball across the gymnasium and hit a student in the face on purpose because he wasn't paying attention. Almost knocked him out. No ramification. Thirty something man against a 7th grader. How times have changed.
This forum has never been the model of civility, but the crude attacks, like the one from 'Douch'ebag, are a reflection of your own level of intelligence and maturity.
The administrators of Thoreau are bright and capable people who are well-regarded by teachers and parents. Mr. Azimi, in particular, has shown himself to be the consummate professional. We all hope he will soon return to his excellent work in managing this fine community school.
RestoreSomeCivility Wrote:
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> This forum has never been the model of civility,
> but the crude attacks, like the one from
> 'Douch'ebag, are a reflection of your own level of
> intelligence and maturity.
>
> The administrators of Thoreau are bright and
> capable people who are well-regarded by teachers
> and parents. Mr. Azimi, in particular, has shown
> himself to be the consummate professional. We all
> hope he will soon return to his excellent work in
> managing this fine community school.
Azimi was probably well regarded by the pedophile who tried to flee the country.
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> RestoreSomeCivility Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > This forum has never been the model of
> civility,
> > but the crude attacks, like the one from
> > 'Douch'ebag, are a reflection of your own level
> of
> > intelligence and maturity.
> >
> > The administrators of Thoreau are bright and
> > capable people who are well-regarded by
> teachers
> > and parents. Mr. Azimi, in particular, has
> shown
> > himself to be the consummate professional. We
> all
> > hope he will soon return to his excellent work
> in
> > managing this fine community school.
>
> Azimi was probably well regarded by the pedophile
> who tried to flee the country.
>
> Why is he suspended? Me thinks he's involved.
Students at the school have stated that he knew about ongoing inappropriateness with the said teacher last year and did nothing about it.
You people are awful and I cannot believe you are allowed to make up complete lies about a well respected principal. Mr. Azimi was hospitalized last Wednesday. This is a fact! You can verify this fact by calling Virginia Hospital Center. Stop making up lies for fun!
Central office is threatened by competency. Azimi is one of the most competent administrators in the ffx school system. The kids at school have noticed he doesn't greet them as they get off the bus each day. Show me another principal who takes the time to do that in their schedules. He preps the kids for high school, and runs that school better than the high school is run.
The assistant principal was wrong when he confronted the teacher instead of calling the cops when the parent presented evidence. That was not Azimi's actions. But he is taking the fall.
Sounds like someone has it in for Azimi in central and this was a convenient excuse.
Firstly, if it were a medical emergency, the letter to the community would have simply stated this considering the situation (arrest of teacher). If it were a medical situation, he would be expected to return, however FCPS has already removed his photo and replaced it with the new administrator.
Secondly, Mr. Azimi was perhaps the most competent administrators at Thoreau Middle School in the last 10, however he is ultimately in charge. I have a child that attends TMS (lucky me right). I have heard from numerous people that the assistant principal ignored certain past situations that perhaps could have prevented this abuse, and ultimately, when provided evidence by the parent, approached the teacher himself. He should have involved the authorities immediately. He has had numerous mishaps, some more significant than others, in the few years while being here at TMS. He was not from FCPS, but hired from out-of-state. It is unlikely that he will be placed on leave (or experience any consequences) for the simple fact that his daughter attends TMS and the county, I don’t think, would ever put her in that position. Although FCPS really should put the best interest of ALL students and remove him ASAP.
Unfortunately Mr. Azimi, as it looks, will have to take the fall for an assistant principal who should have never been in a leaderships position to begin with. In the end, all of our children suffer.
azimi is a great principal. do you people actually take gossip from 7th and 8th graders seriously? snell is a piece of garbage and deserves what he gets. azimi cant be blamed for this. the fairfax princpal better get the boot too. all this happens under brabrands watch. he should be gone too. with all the cover ups brabrand has done he needs to be removed immediately. brabrand and john foster are complete scumbags. if brabrands kid was involved i bet he would care and act differently than he did with the boys at the different high schools, jane doe from oakton, even with P at LB. dave thomas covered that all up and retired and is still on brabrands pay roll. all of you need to lay off azimi and the other thoreau admins. none of you have a clue with the great job. they do.
Is the Fairfax principal getting put on admin leave now? It happened under her watch. How about the principal at Bush Hill. I agree this is all on Brabrand too. Brabrand hired Nardos King who took out an add in the Mt. Vernon year book when she was principal to sell sexual enhancement pills to students. Nardos is Assistant Superintendent now. Brabrand needs to be terminated.
The Edison Football Coaches were caught drinking before a game. The assistant trainer told the head coach that he was playing someone who was injured and smelled alcohol on his breath. The trainer reported it. The DSA and Principal then covered it up. The trainer that reported it was blasted by the Principal saying she didnt have her facts straight and put her on professional leave for 3 days. The principal punished someone for reporting that the coaches were drinking before a game. There are several coaches on the staff that are not properly hired. That principal and DSA have to go. How can a principal allow a coach and his staff to drink in the locker room before a game? principal covered it up. How is that principal not gone?
Edison is a dump. My son had a terrible experience there. Administration is terrible at Edison. Principal is the worst in the county. Even the School Board Rep Tammy Kaufax is terrible. We were told at graduation that we could not come forward to take pictures of our children when they crossed the stage, We were told we could not hold up that line. Tammy stopped the WHOLE graduation to get her daughters diploma and personally hand it to her and hug her. I couldnt get a picture of my son walking across the stage but she stopped everything to hug her kid on stage. She also used her power to get her kid out of trouble when she got doing some very questionable things. My isnt there anyone to run agaisnt her? My wife and I just moved to Vienna and really wish our son could have gone to Thoreau and Madison. Great support here and great Community.
Viennamom36 has the wrong assistant principal. It’s the female assistant principal that didn’t do anything about Snell. Not the male one. SHE knew several complaints about him and did nothing
I have worked at several schools in the county including Thoreau. I can tell you the admin there does an incredible job. Azimi is the best principal I have ever worked with. The APs also are the best I have ever worked with. I doubt any of you posting on here know anything about what happened. You start rumors with no real knowledge of what the Admin team does or did.
What we do know is that a teacher under their supervision was allowed and given opportunities to sexually assaulted multiple students despite the admin team being aware of issues and reports surrounding the said teacher.
Those admins being “the best you have ever worked with” says more about the dysfunction that exists at all of the other schools that you have worked at more so than supporting Thoreau. The only reason Thoreau stands as it does academically is because of the parents (their wealth and support of their children). Take the parents away and you have Sandburg Middle School. Thoreau has got to be the easiest school in FCPS to run due to its community/parents. Bottom line is that Thoreau is the best middle schools in FCPS and perhaps the country and look what goes on here (fight clubs, extreme bullying, affairs among staff members, multiple suicides) and now this.
whatwedoknow needs to go be an admin or teacher then. if you think it is so easy then you go work there. does it even make sense that admin would allow a teacher to sexually assult a student? you have no idea what they were aware of. if there is such dysfunction at thoreau then why is doug tyson not held responsible? since he oversees the schools in that pyramid he should be held responsible for the dysfunction you talk about. hold brabrand responsible too. i agree with you that thoreau is the best middle school. they have great parent involvement and great admin. great staff too.
There are two factors that influence the success of students at a middle school and both have absolutely nothing to do with anything that goes on in the school (ie staff experience, administrators, special ancillary programming, counselors, test-prep, etc, etc). These two factors are: parents’ level of education and parents’ income (which are usually related). Meaning you could replace the entire staff at Thoreau Middle School with first year teachers (or even student-teachers) and student success will be the same. Thoreau students are good student because of good parenting, nothing more or nothing less. FCPS has nothing to do with success of Thoreau students. If that were the case, why not simply mimic what goes on at Thoreau at all of the other middle schools? In fact approximately 10 years ago, parents tried to push to make it a private school (which they should have), but FCPS would not allow it because it helps off-set the other middle schools as far as educational statistics. FCPS does more harm to those students who attend Thoreau than good!
Social Services should get involved. The issue with FCPS is that the lead investigator, Lisa Alexander-White who currently works for FCPS limits this involvement to protect FCPS. Lisa Alexander worked for Social Services before working for FCPS so she has a lot of influence in terms of how FCPS is approached by the rest of the agency. It truly is a conflict of interest, but FCPS was smart in hiring her as she keeps Social Services at bay and reduces the overall effectiveness of SS to benefit and protect FCPS.
"There are two factors that influence the success of students at a middle school and both have absolutely nothing to do with anything that goes on in the school (ie staff experience, administrators, special ancillary programming, counselors, test-prep, etc, etc). These two factors are: parents’ level of education and parents’ income (which are usually related). Meaning you could replace the entire staff at Thoreau Middle School with first year teachers (or even student-teachers) and student success will be the same. Thoreau students are good student because of good parenting, nothing more or nothing less. FCPS has nothing to do with success of Thoreau students. If that were the case, why not simply mimic what goes on at Thoreau at all of the other middle schools? In fact approximately 10 years ago, parents tried to push to make it a private school (which they should have), but FCPS would not allow it because it helps off-set the other middle schools as far as educational statistics. FCPS does more harm to those students who attend Thoreau than good!"
-You clearly don't study research on education outcomes. Most research indicates that parents are the largest of many factors that influence education outcomes. Parents are about 45%, Schools are about 28%, and the rest is wash of many things (peers, community, churches, cultural influences, etc.) that are too complex to determine with any specificity.
Is this the same Lisa Alexander who was charged with Domestic Violence? According to these court records she attacked her husband and was convicted of assault and battery.
If she previously worked for Social Services, then most certainly she should not be the lead investigator for FCPS as this is a direct conict of interest. Also if she was the i dividual charged according to the court fings, she should not be in the position of lead investigator or any position with the county for that matter.
I too have worked with Principal Azimi, and he is very much a polarizing figure. Some love and revere him and others feel he is a weak administrator with questionable character. I definitely fall in the latter category. While I have no inside information about what happened at Thoreau, his work at Madison HS was not very impressive. He was definitely more interested in looking good on the surface than actually being good. His work ethic was weak and his follow through and attention to detail was severely lacking. He is not a good leader in any regard. It does not surprise me (and many others) in the least that bad things happened under his watch.
Gregghood Wrote:
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> There are two factors that influence the success
> of students at a middle school and both have
> absolutely nothing to do with anything that goes
> on in the school (ie staff experience,
> administrators, special ancillary programming,
> counselors, test-prep, etc, etc). These two
> factors are: parents’ level of education and
> parents’ income (which are usually related).
> Meaning you could replace the entire staff at
> Thoreau Middle School with first year teachers (or
> even student-teachers) and student success will be
> the same. Thoreau students are good student
> because of good parenting, nothing more or nothing
> less. FCPS has nothing to do with success of
> Thoreau students. If that were the case, why not
> simply mimic what goes on at Thoreau at all of the
> other middle schools? In fact approximately 10
> years ago, parents tried to push to make it a
> private school (which they should have), but FCPS
> would not allow it because it helps off-set the
> other middle schools as far as educational
> statistics. FCPS does more harm to those students
> who attend Thoreau than good!
Who says - you? I think parent involvement would outweigh parent income.
So student cries rape at oakton. Principal dismisses it. Assistant P laughs. All on public record. Family sues.
Assistant P from Oakton is transferred to a different cushy high school. Principal is PROMOTED to central office position.
Azimi left his staff in charge while using his granted benefits for a sick day. They acted inappropriately and he is fired.
Me smells a wrongful termination lawsuit when this is all said and done, esp. considering the blatantly obvious cover-up efforts of FCPS toward other admin.
Is the Fairfax principal now on his way out, too?
Sounds like FCPS needs to take a good look at it's human resources practices...
...if you are not outraged, you are not paying attention...
We are hoping the Fairfax Pincipal does not return after her "medical" leave. FCPS likes to cover things up and ignore parents. They hope you will just go away and forget it about.
and most simply do forget about situations like this, when really parents should demand a full investigation and demand administrators be held accountable.
We reported inappropriate teacher behavior and were told there would be an investigation. We were then told there was an investigation but no one talked to the students. Basically the administrators LIED. Agree that administrators should be held accountable but who will enforce that?
Pathetic Wrote:
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> You people are awful and I cannot believe you are
> allowed to make up complete lies about a well
> respected principal. Mr. Azimi was hospitalized
> last Wednesday. This is a fact! You can verify
> this fact by calling Virginia Hospital Center.
> Stop making up lies for fun!
It is so sad that these situations occur with children and people! What a mess, you know, when I was looking for someone to pay for essay and quality results, I have found so many articles about deviant behavior like this! I have found on https://www.aresearchguide.com/pay-for-essays-online.html this service a good one to order my assignment. And when I got it I wanted to read it as it was about this issue with statistics, I was shocked!
The teachers are probably 90% liberals.
The kind that preach tolerance, and civility. Then they go to their lunchroom and spew their hatred and bitterness. Then, they go home and go on Facebook and spew hatred.
That's what the small salaries of the teachers lead to, lol . But I do not quite understand the students who went for help and paid their teacher. After all, there are many such services on the Internet, for example, here https://essayreviewexpert.com/ you can find the best custom essay writing service reviews, choose a decent option and calmly order. This is still better than going directly to the teacher.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/23/2020 03:12PM by qusserel.
WTF? The psychopaths, posers, losers, cunts, and douchebags at FCPS are much worse than I thought. Fucking kids? Wow. I witnessed FCPS promoting domestic violence and stalking for their amusement. Also beating up kids and not reporting it. Now they are fucking kids and the principal stands by and does not report it. What a fucking nightmare!! FCPS gets off on abuse.
Snell is not the only one fucking kids - there are 2 more FCPS teachers, Peter Mason and Daniel Kim are also FCPS child fuckers. What kind of screening process is there to become a teacher or admin at FCPS? Fucking sad.
Wonder if the family of Snells first victim will return to the area for the trial?
They moved away but kept kid in school for a real long time after like two years
Wow, the evidence must have been weak! And they kept Snell in jail for 800 days?
What a travesty!
From channel 4.(Working for you)
A judge declared a mistrial in the case of a former Fairfax County middle school teacher accused of sex acts with a student.
Matthew Snell, who used to teach at Thoreau Middle School, was arrested in October 2019 near the Mexican border.
After more than two days of deliberation this week, a jury found Snell not guilty of carnal knowledge.
The jury could not reach a unanimous decision on a second count of carnal knowledge and a count of indecent liberties. The judge declared a mistrial on those two charges.
There will be a hearing next week to set a new trial date on the remaining charges.
Snell issued a statement through his attorney saying, “I have maintained my innocence for the entire 861 days the commonwealth of Virginia has fought to keep me incarcerated without bail. The commonwealth has had over 800 days to gather evidence, and today a jury spoke clearly as to the quality of the evidence the commonwealth has used to keep me in a cage. Thanks to my attorney Damon D. Colbert for his relentless advocacy on my behalf.”
The female administrator mentioned above from Thoreau Middle School. She was transferred to Herndon Middle School, the other Mr. Condill to Southlakes.
Due to the poor spelling and grammar of many of these posts, it is clear that the posters are graduates of the child molesting and abusing institution known as FCPS!!!
Really tho, how do any of these people involved still have jobs? FCPS must be extremely desperate. So sad for the students as the school's primary responsibility, outside education, is SAFETY.
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