GDS Student Newspaper posts about the horrible incident

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the perpetrators were masked and disguised their voices then they could be anyone from anywhere. Maybe fellow students, maybe not.

How would non-fellow students have had access to an elementary school bathroom during the school day with no one knowing they were there?

[Anonymous]

Tightly written story. Good job, student reporters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My sense is that the assault was perpetrated by an adult who slipped into the school, rather than a student. Horrible either way. Why would this kid make this up? I have to believe the victim is credible here. But i doubt it was another student.

What? You are pulling this entirely from your imagination.

[Anonymous]

The article does not say it happened between classes. Please stop repeating that.

It could have happened anytime. Lunch. Before or after school. Who knows? Please stick to the facts.

The email from the parents says “between classes, during a regular school day.”

It is highly inappropriate for people to speculate or cast aspersions here, especially those who have not even seen the underlying emails.

[Anonymous]

For clarity, the first two paras in the post above were intended to quote a prior post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article does not say it happened between classes. Please stop repeating that.

It could have happened anytime. Lunch. Before or after school. Who knows? Please stick to the facts.

The email from the parents says “between classes, during a regular school day.”

It is highly inappropriate for people to speculate or cast aspersions here, especially those who have not even seen the underlying emails.

GDS has had many bathroom incidents where students were ambushed in the bathroom. This is NOT NEW. THEY have the records at school that students were ambushed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article does not say it happened between classes. Please stop repeating that.

It could have happened anytime. Lunch. Before or after school. Who knows? Please stick to the facts.

The email from the parents says “between classes, during a regular school day.”

It is highly inappropriate for people to speculate or cast aspersions here, especially those who have not even seen the underlying emails.

GDS has had many bathroom incidents where students were ambushed in the bathroom. This is NOT NEW. THEY have the records at school that students were ambushed

What does this mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The article does not say it happened between classes. Please stop repeating that.

It could have happened anytime. Lunch. Before or after school. Who knows? Please stick to the facts.

The email from the parents says “between classes, during a regular school day.”

It is highly inappropriate for people to speculate or cast aspersions here, especially those who have not even seen the underlying emails.

GDS has had many bathroom incidents where students were ambushed in the bathroom. This is NOT NEW. THEY have the records at school that students were ambushed


What???

[Anonymous]

Something similar happened in a local public school, thankfully has never made the news to preserve the privacy of the student, but all the parents involved know about it. The school system has effectively squashed it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am dying to know what this family is. Attorney thinks about the email they sent to the community. As a parent, I am a little disturbed that this family had access to all of the parents and many student’s email addresses.

THIS is what disturbs you about the scenario?

Yeah, a parent having access to other parents' emails, and a parent worrying about whether colleges will mistakenly believe THEIR child is a victim/perpetrator. This is what worries you about this situation? Geez DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, clearly GDS wants to avoid any liability so it’s clear why are doing that .

If GDS really wanted to avoid liability, they would have expelled the students who present a real harm to other students. There's no reason for GDS to keep students who so violently assaulted another child. Even assuming that the alleged perpetrators are "connected" or have parents who are significant donors, the threat of future harm, especially knowing that the students have a record of assault, is so great that the risk to the school's reputation and the cost of a lawsuit would outweigh the benefits of keeping those students at GDS. (Not to mention GDS has enough wealthy and connected families that losing one or two would not be terribly detrimental to the school.) Security at the school is tight. No one enters without passing through two sets of doors and security (at least one of whom is recently retired MPD) at the front desk. The design of the grade-level floors is such that bathrooms are not hidden in some corridor; they are right off the hallway and surrounded by classrooms. People would see you enter and leave the bathroom. Perhaps the alleged student perpetrators were eventually counseled out. Who knows? But without sufficient evidence, the school is limited in its public response.
I feel horrible for the family and the distress that they are feeling. I am sure that something awful happened to their child, but it's not clear exactly what based upon the available corroborating evidence.
As for Russell, he's been a great HOS. Yes, there are some things that he could have handled differently, but none of the events that people like to bring up was "easy" (COVID, Oct. 7) and *any* response to those events would have been sure to piss off one contingent of the GDS regardless.

How do you expel kids who you can't prove did something? The newspaper story said the victim doesn't know who did it, they wore masks and altered their voices. I am guessing that the family thinks they know who is responsible but there is not enough evidence to charge them. What liability does the school take on for expelling them when there is not enough to be able to point to them?

Doesn't the school know where everyone is through out the day? Which kids were late returning to class? Which kids asked for a hall pass? Our school's on line 'grade book' lets me know if my kid was late for class any period of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something similar happened in a local public school, thankfully has never made the news to preserve the privacy of the student, but all the parents involved know about it. The school system has effectively squashed it.

Seems like GDS is following this playbook.

[Anonymous]

How was the school newspaper allowed to publish this? Is there a faculty advisor that’s now in trouble with admin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How was the school newspaper allowed to publish this? Is there a faculty advisor that’s now in trouble with admin?

You are concerned about the truth going out???? not the victim

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something similar happened in a local public school, thankfully has never made the news to preserve the privacy of the student, but all the parents involved know about it. The school system has effectively squashed it.

I'm confused. Did you want the school to share the incident with the families at the school or did you not? If the crime was actually proven to have happened, which you insinuate, and the perpetrators identities known to the school administrators, are you saying that the victim's family did not want the classmates to be told about the perpetrators still attending the school? Or are you thankful that the news was never shared because the student wanted to remain private?