Mary Ann Frye
Mary Ann Frye mfrye@reyn.org : Director of Pupil Personnel
774 Loch Lomond Lane, Worthington , Ohio 43085; phone: 614-848-8341, work phone: 614-501-1027


HYPOCRISY

 Even though student assignments were the superintendent’s responsibility, Mary Ann Frye personally placed special needs students in other districts using taxpayer money .

Mary Ann Frye refused to allow the superintendent to participate in crucial IEP meetings.  (She claimed that the superintendent chose not to attend meetings, and chose not to respond to pleas for assistance.)

Among other schools, Many Ann Frye placed Reynoldsburg special needs students at Summit Academy, Marburn Academy, Brookwood Community Learning Center, Virtual Community School of Ohio, Cross Creek Day Treatment Program, and Excel Academy, Inc using taxpayer money.

         Click here to see the convict posing as a licensed teacher protected by Mary Ann Frye: www.ExcelAcademyOhio.com .  The exact nature of their relationship has not been determined, but she did not object to this convict exposing easily-influenced emotionally-disturbed students to inner city insight; including "Guitars or Guns, books or bullets, I'm down."

Mary Ann Frye used school attorneys, at taxpayer’s expense, to force parents into complying with these placements.  (Reynoldsburg administrators gave up on protecting their special needs students once Excel Academy, Inc. officials said the RCSD had no jurisdiction over them.)

 As Mary Ann Frye attempted to convince concerned parents that out-of-district placement was best, she simultaneously co-authored a contradictory study in which she used Reynoldsburg students as “guinea pigs”.  This study confirmed that in-school placement is far more beneficial for much less taxpayer money.

 The Reynoldsburg High School Trailerblazers Program is cited as a successful, and less expensive, alternative to out-of-district placement in this Ohio State University study, but Mary Ann Frye continued to deny these benefits to younger disabled students.

  Click here for a copy of the PowerPoint (PPT) presentation exposing what is being hidden from parents and the Reynoldsburg School Board.  Click here for a PDF summary of the study.  (* Courtesy of Dawn Anderson-Butcher, Ph.D., OSU, 06/08/2007.)


CONFLICT OF INTEREST

 According to the RCS Policy Manual; Section G - Personnel, GBCA Staff Conflict of Interest, “Employees shall not engage in, nor have a financial interest in, any activity which conflicts with their duties and responsibilities in the District” and “Employees shall not engage in work of any type in which information concerning a customer, client or employer originates from any information available to them through District sources.”

        1) Mary Ann Frye, an administrator with unlimited access to student records, pushed Reynoldsburg’s most vulnerable students toward the Cross Creek Day Treatment Program.  She ignored advice from medical professionals and invited the Cross Creek director to attend confidential IEP meetings.

        2) Cross Creek is a “halfway house” for youths with criminal backgrounds, and is run by the Educational Service Center.

        3) Cross Creek receives approximately $18,000 a year of taxpayer money per Reynoldsburg student sent to them by Mary Ann Frye.  (Compare this with only $8,000 of taxpayer money being spent per student within Reynoldsburg’s district.)

        4) Ohio Department of Education records reveal that Mary Ann Frye is also an “active” subcontractor (PRAXIS III Assessor) for the Educational Service Center , and there may be a lucrative post-retirement opening on their Board of Directors... a mere 3 minute commute from the Frye residence.


CHILD ABUSE

 According to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421, Mary Ann Frye is a Mandatory Reporter of Child Abuse and Neglect.

 According to Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421(A)(1)(a), “No mandated reporter shall fail to immediately report the knowledge or suspicion of abuse or neglect of a child to the public children's services agency or a municipal or county peace officer in which the child resides or in which the abuse or neglect is occurring or has occurred.”

  Click here to see an image capture of the actual email message (March 22, 2007) in which Mary Ann Frye was alerted to a “suspicion of abuse” of a Reynoldsburg special needs student.  There was no reply.  There was no report.  Law enforcement was never contacted.

 This same alert was also sent to the confirmed email address of Reynoldsburg’s superintendent.

 “False Reporting” could be enforced if officials attempt to “unring the bell” and pursue charges at this time; Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2151.421(G)(b)(2), (H)(3) or Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2921.14.

        PLEASE NOTE: There is no evidence that Mary Ann Frye was directly or indirectly involved in the actual alleged sexual abuse of the disabled student.  This accusation is not currently being made by any party.


* Prather, J., Anderson-Butcher, D., & Frye, M. (2004, January). Examining the provision of
    social services through a cost-benefit analysis.
Poster presented at the Eighth Annual
    Society for Social Work Research Conference, New Orleans , LA.