*Updated:our family was sent threats of law suits by this school. Not once did they seek understanding or clarification of the situation.The recent developments regarding the allegations against the pastor and the current leadship come as no suprise given our experience.* My children attended MCA for five years. They never had any issues.They loved their teachers and friends.They did extremely well academically, socially, and behaviorally.All their teachers told us that they were a blessing and they loved our kids. In January, 2 of my daughters came to me and said that their teacher was touching them inappropriately, as well as other female students. Among other red flags,he was also referring to an all-girl class as his honey bunnies.Anybody who knows who he is knows that he's also the head of a foundation that helps s** trafficked girls.He knows more than anybody to never touch a minor.We confronted him and he denied at first,but he kept changing his story.He did admit that he was calling them honey bunnies.He also promoted heavy metal as being completely acceptable for Christians.We asked him not to play it in class, and he ignored our request.We brought the s**ual harassment allegations to the pastors attention (there was no principal the entire school year) as well as other concerning problems in that class.The pastor responded by maliciously slandering my kids and completely ignoring our concerns.When his allegations against my daughters were proven to be completely false, he asked was unconcerned and asked us what we wanted him to do about it. The handbook says that if a teacher or admin makes accusations that are proven false, the students should hear "I'm sorry." That didn't happen.He refused to allow my wife to speak in his presence in the meeting we had with him,and even kicked her out when she spoke even though she was very respectful.When he finally allowed her back in, he verbally attacked her while she sat mostly in silence as to not enrage him.Two weeks later, we asked the school office if there would be a principal next year, since there was none this entire year and we had lost alot of confidence in the administration based on how these issues had been handled.We received an email from the Pastor informing us we were no longer welcome at the school for the next school year,and if we continue to cause issues,he would make us leave immediately.He never gave us a reason why we were no longer welcome even though we fit every requirement to be enrolled at the school and have a spotless record for 5 years. We were very respectful to him even though he verbally attacked us and behaved very unprofessionally and tried to intimidate us with threats.We asked if we could meet and he said absolutely not.It could not have been handled worse.It appears that our dismissal from the school is retaliatory for speaking up about s**ual harassment.Theres no other explanation.The teacher has full access to the students,and no investigation has been opened about the harassment,although the handbook clearly states that an investigation would be conducted with these types of allegations.We would rather have handled this situation privately and resolved it.We tried.But he refused to have a conversation at all.Instead, he escalated every situation.His behavior was very disturbing. It's very unfortunate, because there are some really awesome teachers here.The school itself was not perfect, the office staff could use a lot of help with interactions with students,a couple teachers who yell and belittle the kids, amongst a few things. This is poor judgment and something that shouldn't be going on in a Christian school, but we overlooked these things because, for the most part, it was a good school.Based on what has happened to my family,I think it is just the tip of the iceberg of what actually goes on behind the scenes. We've heard many stories about the administrators behavior but it was truly shocking to see firsthand how he treats people, specifically a good family that makes the school a better school.Thankfully we had the foresight to record every conversation we had with him and the teacher.
Teachers and parents have expressed shock at hearing what has happened to our family,but nothing will ever change if people don't take a stand and do the right thing before more people are hurt.All we ever tried to do was better the school and support it.My kids were the ones most hurt.I hope that this review will shed light on some very serious issues within the school administration and that the students won't be left in harm's way anymore.We sent an email to the advisory board letting them know the details of the situation. We had been ignored two other times by the pastor about the allegations. This was the third time expressing our concerns. We told them we would be forced to go public if they did not respond to our allegations or conduct an investigation. We waited 12 days with no response, so we then posted this review. read more
