Why is FCPS spending taxpayer $$ to defend Marie Lemmon, the Principal at Baileys? It's clear the Federal Judge believes that something is not right with the allegations against her as he is allowing the case to move forward. So many teachers have had issues with this person, but FCPS keeps her at Bailey's! Why? It's time to take her to central office and protect the kids and teachers at that school. And, this is such an embarrassment to our county since this story has gone nation-wide. Time to let Karen Garza know that Ms. Lemmon must go until this has been resolved.

Lawsuit Against Fairfax Schools, Principal Moves Forward
DECEMBER 30, 2014 6:31 PM0 COMMENTS
By Drew Costley
On Dec. 19, federal judge T.S. Ellis III rejected the Fairfax County School Board and Bailey’s Elementary School principal Marie Lemmon’s motion to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit brought against the two parties by former employees and a former student.

The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 25 in the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, alleges that Lemmon discriminated against them on counts of race, gender and disability and that the Fairfax County school system retaliated against Rachel Charlton, a former assistant principal at Bailey’s, after she reported the alleged discrimination to the school system.

According to the initial complaint, Lemmon demoted African-American teachers in favor of younger, less-qualified White teachers, and stripped Charlton of various work duties after discovering that Charlton was pregnant, among other things.

In response to the motion to dismiss, Krista Goelz, the plaintiffs’ attorney, filed several affidavits written by former and current Fairfax County school system employees to support the initial claims.

Ellis III did grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss some of the discrimination claims, such as the allegation that the defendants did not accommodate the employees’ religious beliefs, harassed employees for their religious beliefs and discriminated against employees on the basis of race and ethnicity.

The allegations of sexual harassment, retaliation for complaining to administrators about the discrimination and demotion and denial of promotions on the basis of race were not thrown out. A pretrial conference will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 21.

If this were a teacher, they would be on admin leave by now. Why do we treat principals better than we do the teachers?

Maybe she has a friend at the school board office protecting her?! Agree, we should not use money meant for children's education be spent defending her especially since one of the people in the lawsuit is a student.

Did they ever consider removing her from a school where kids are possibly at risk of this behavior?! Wake up school board! Smoke usually equals Fire.

if i were in the courtroom i'd find a lawbook that was causing the bookshefl to bend

and thow the book at prosecution to whack them back to the country they came from

we can all see %98 of cars goign through fx city near courthouse are mexicans and asians - all traffic domestic and commercial

we can all see somethign similar lookign on the highway to obama

----------------------------------
only thing i see in the suit is an obnoxious attempt by fucking foreigners to oust whitey using the court system they (hope to) completely control

sharon bull o va gov, her friends and family

have a "policy" book your taxes paid to make in the legal library

which clearly spells out that gov workers can give green cards to anyone they please and SHOULD give employment preference to the same

fucking bitch

the State of Virginia is a right to work state, and Commonwealth law, the law expected to be used except in stare decis decisions (which would be challenged)

the law has always favored employers to hire and fire at will for nearly or any reason and with total disreguard for any union membership as well

that's Virginia law, in the books, always has been

they can fire ronald mc'donald for having visible nose hair if they wish

you might think that allowed slavery by business owners (esp private)

however think again: the same rule of firing applies to local and regional managers - guy above gets complaints can make an order, order disreguarded, FIRED

managers had been frequently fired in the past, far from being a protected bunch

m7Gmb Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> the State of Virginia is a right to work state,
> and Commonwealth law, the law expected to be used
> except in stare decis decisions (which would be
> challenged)
>
> the law has always favored employers to hire and
> fire at will for nearly or any reason and with
> total disreguard for any union membership as well
>
> that's Virginia law, in the books, always has
> been
>
> they can fire ronald mc'donald for having visible
> nose hair if they wish

I watched my company cater to a guy that was known to be stealing cause he was black. After hiring a PI who did catch him, the guy fakes an injury and collects 30k.
Right to work state if youre not black I guess.

I knew a guy who knew a guy who knew this dude who worked at the gas station on Fort Belvoir and got caught on camera smoking crack on the job, they were trying to catch a co-worker who was stealing, he just got sent to a treatment program, hard to find an honest crackhead.