Firing upheld of Montgomery teacher who touched boys

Published September 26, 2012 4:00am ET



The firing of a Montgomery County elementary school teacher for behaving inappropriately with male students was upheld Tuesday by the Maryland school board, which questioned why the teacher was not fired sooner.

Daniel Picca was terminated from Silver Spring’s Kemp Mill Elementary School in 2010, 17 years after an initial complaint at Rachel Carson Elementary School and 12 years after the county’s child protective services found him responsible for child abuse.

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