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[edit] Please cease removing the scandal section

The charges against Moyer and his subsequent flight and arrest are an important part of FUMA's recent history, and certainly constitute relevant information. Please cease erasing this information and describing it as "correcting vandalism"```` —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.110.224.154 (talk) 04:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Please cease adding allegations unfounded by the source you cite

An anonymous poster keeps adding a section to this article with the bold section title "Scandal" and allegations that cite as its source a web page on America's Most Wanted web site that does not even support all of the specific allegations placed in this vandalizing entry nor does it even name Fork Union Military Academy anywhere on the web page.

I am Dan Thompson, Director of Communications for Fork Union Military Academy. CaptDan FUMA 16:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

It is true that inclusion of this information is not supported by the source, America's Most Wanted.[1] The substance of the item is supported but there is no mention of the school. AMW only says (click "case"):
In 1994, Gregory Allen Moyer was working as a teacher at private in Virginia
(not specifying what the "private" is).
However, it is clear from a google search that it is a private school, namely Fork Union Military Academy.[2] The google results include the Court of Appeals of Virginia.[3] This case concerning Gregory Allen Moyer states that the
Appellant was an eighth grade science teacher at Fork Union Military Academy (the Academy) in Fluvanna County ... In 1997, Academy officials advised local and state police that appellant may have abused one or more of the Academy's students.
Details are in the Virginia Pilot, University Libraries, Virginia Tech,[4], as well as WHSV news,[5]Daily Progress (reprint),[6] WTJU[7] and The Hook.[8][9]
This information has been added and removed twice and this is likely to occur again. Please note that an edit should not be called vandalism, unless it is clearly the intent is to disrupt wikipedia. However much you may disagree with the edit, that is not the case here. If this issue cannot be resolved, you may wish to study the dispute resolution procedure.
There have been previous similar cases such as Brisbane Grammar School, where such information was included with concern that it was a case that needed to be mentioned because it was in the public domain, but that it should be done so proportionately. You may like to augment other sections in the article, e.g. history, but these should be original writing, not copied and pasted from existing schools texts (unless released under GNU Free Documentation License).
Tyrenius 06:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I've read all the links on the case and it just looks like one of those Robin Williams movies that went terribly wrong. They guy never touched any cadets and they fired him for the secret club and whatever photos he made. What he did thereafter is not FUMA's responsibility. I would also question the standard applied to determining how intentionally staged the photos were. All-male residence halls in high school can be like locker rooms, especially at FUMA where the school is the only thing for miles around.