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A Maryland High school teachers took legal steps and claimed that he was accused of being a racist after a classroom was abused by the school administration.
Dan Engler, a former health and English teacher and head coach of the rowing team of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (B-CC) in Montgomery County, was enough for director Shelton L. Mooney and the Montgomery County Public School BoardThey accuse them of defamation and violate school policy in the treatment of an incident in February 2023.
According to the complaint, two students in Engler’s health class from Engler asked to sit in addition to their friends instead of sitting in their assigned seats. Engler quoted the importance of using a seating plate to learn and avoid confusion, and asked the students – who are black – to return to their assigned seats. The students rejected and stayed where they were.
Later on this day, the students reported on the interaction to the deputy headmaster and claimed that Engler told them that he could not take it off from other students and believed that this was a racist comment.
Dan Engler, an MCPS teacher in Maryland, is suing the school authority and a headmaster who claims that after a defendant incident in the classroom, she slandered his character. (Getty Images/Dan and Krista Engler)
“Part of the misunderstanding may be due to an incident in Engler’s English lessons last spring,” wrote his lawyer in the opposition against the defendant’s application for a summary assessment. The submission said that Engler had read a quote from Muhammad Ali with a racist slur that had insulted some students. Engler apologized, and an investigation showed that it was not a “hateinbia”. According to reports, the students involved in the health class had reportedly heard of the incident of the English lessons and previously asked not to be admitted to Engler’s lessons because he believed that he was racist.
According to the students’ report, headmaster Mooney was instructed by his superiors to follow the protocol “Hass Bias Incident”. The next day, he informed Engler that he would be transferred to the administrative leave paid for a day while the incident was examined.
Two days after the incident, Mooney sent a community-wide email to parents, teachers, employees and students, who reported that a “hatein incident” had taken place at school.
The news states that “several African -American students” were informed by a teacher that he was “unable to distinguish them from other African -American students in the classroom, and that the Montgomery County police department was notified as an internal examination.
A notebook and a pencil on a desk in a school classroom (IStock)
“Let me be clear, discrimination of all kinds must not be tolerated,” wrote Mooney, before quoting school policy against “insensitivity, disrespect, prejudices, verbal abuse, harassment, bullying, physical violence or illegal discrimination against a person.”
Although Engler was not mentioned in the e -mail, he said that he was quickly identified by students, parents and colleagues. He claims that he had made the statement not attributed to him in the letter and “did nothing that could reasonably be classified as the bias of hate intentions.”
In the complaint, that Engler has destroyed his “reputation by the B-CC’s malicious actions, the defendant Shelton L. Mooney, who incorrectly accused Engler of racism in a thoughtless, semi-baked community email.”
The lawsuit also claims that Mooney and the school authority would have violated MCPS guidelines and procedures by sending the community-wide email before completing an examination and refusing to spend a withdrawal or apology.
Daniel Engler’s complaint accuses Mooney of not following the district guidelines for reporting incidents of “hate tension” before sending a community-wide email. (Reuters)
When Engler returned to work the following week, Mooney allegedly refused to discuss the matter with Engler. After his return to his classroom, Engler said that he was “annoyed” to find MCPS and B-CC employees in his classroom, in which they held a “restorative justice” circle that they excluded from the accession.
Said Engler Fox News Digital That experience heavily burdened his mental health. On the same day, he left a disability for a year and a half before taking up classes at another school in the district.
“I love Teach. I love to coach, “he said.” And it is very important to me to do the relationships with these children very much and learn how to get adults in the best possible way. In order to lose the trust of the children, the children’s trust was devastating based on what the children had to say to me. It was identity. “
According to the complaint, Engler ultimately had no disciplinary measures and the investigation of the accused allegedly had not sufficient evidence that the incident in the classroom was a “hateinbias”.
“However, the damage for Engler had already been served. Mooney’s malignant email incorrectly branded Engler as a racist, destroying his reputation in the B-CC community, which is deeply emotionally depressing, which makes it impossible to continue teaching at B-CC and causing the loss of his position as head coach of the B-CC-Ruder team,” continued it. “
Engler criticized the handling of the school incident as “an enormous opportunity for virtue signaling”.
“It was really and I pay the price,” he told Fox News Digital. Engler said his reputation was damaged and the legal struggle had cost his family more than 300,000 US dollars.
After Engler tried to solve the dispute through administrative procedures, he filed a lawsuit at the Montgomery County Circuit Court in August 2023.
The case of Engler went to court on Monday.
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Fox News Digital has opposed the accused for the accused several times and received no answer. The MCPS training committee said that it could not comment on pending legal disputes. Mooney did not give back a request for comment.
