Not rumor, fact.
Let's hear your "facts", and not "She told me this...", or "I heard that...", or "So and so told me that he...". If you're going to destroy someone's reputation and forbid them from living with or visiting their family, you need a little more than opinions and heresay... enough that you affect their career and livelihood, maybe?
You talk about destroying someone's reputation and affecting their livelihood and career. Are you saying he should be allowed back to work at Hyde? Should we give him a job coaching girls varsity again so he can give backrubs and cop a feel whenever he can?
What about destroying the reputation of the girl who you say fabricated this story? It is ok for you to attack someone, but not ok for someone on this board to make their own claims? Please tell us if, and how you are related to the Hyde Schools? I am not afraid to say that I am a former student and a friend of a couple of girls who made serious claims while I was at Hyde. One student, (a boy) even confronted Larry in the auditorium in front of the entire school and said, "You make the girls here very uncomfortable and it needs to stop." Hello??? Is this enough for you? Why were these claims not made about other faculty? Where there is smoke, there is fire.
Still don't see any facts or personal testimonials here. I don't know the girl in question personally, so I can't attest to whether or not she (or her mom) are as disturbed as I hear they are. My point is that it doesn't matter, a disturbed person or a rational one can file a civil lawsuit and wreak havoc on the defendents life, putting them at-risk economically. If you've never been a defendant in a frivolous lawsuit, you don't know what I mean.
So because a "brave" boy confronts Scary Larry in front of the school telling him he makes the girs "uncomfortable", he's now classified a pedophile. Sounds to me like maybe he refused to acknowldege the inappropriateness of some of his behaviors, and now he is in a different line of work. Should he ever work in a position of authority over young girls, probably not. Did Hyde perhaps let things go on longer than they should have. Probably. Did they learn from it. I bet they did. I don;t see where he is in a position to hurt anyone at this point, but if there were any allegations of inappropriate behavior hereforward, I would agree that he probably would and should earn himself a campus ban, regardless of his family ties. But again, I've yet to see/hear any substantive allegations here about his prior behavior, except that he was "creepy". That's not a crime last time I checked...
