Loopholes In Elementary School Background Check System
While everybody still keeps fresh memories of a former mentor at Butts County Elementary School Adrian Zakaluzny, who was charged with molesting an underage schoolboy, some fresh disturbing news come again from Georgia school system. But this next embarrassing incident has to do with insufficient background check procedure that has resulted in promoting someone to a highly responsible position of a school headmaster. This time the report highlighted the Henry County’s Walnut Creek Elementary School in the state of Georgia, telling the incident has involved the newly appointed elementary school principal. 
According to the released police public records, the just approved appointee was detained 22nd June, having served only twenty days in the high position he had been promoted to on 3 June. The police was clear, explaining this unexpected arrest of Mr. Jason Douglas, who was immediately put to the Henry county’s jail on charges of the violation of probation he has been on in connection with a 2007 DUI pending case. In the course of the said 2007 arrest the police also found some marijuana while searching the inside of the suspect’s car before detaining him.
Henry County school district spokesperson told the last time the school had performed a background check on Douglas was before his application to become a schoolteacher was approved resulting in hiring him in July 2003. As every other school employee or teacher, Douglas had to submit to a routine background check once in 5 years.
So, his criminal charges came after he was hired as a teacher. It’s strange, though, that somehow Douglas failed to be performed the 2008 scheduled background check against leaving his personal school files clean. It also still remains not clear whether there’s a provision in the district policy requiring a fresh background check when a schoolteacher gets promoted to the job of the school principal.





