How does your school respond to on campus assaults

[Anonymous]

Sexual assault? No charges filed and there were 19 victims found at the end of their third party investigation. Most families left that year or shortly thereafter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very few will have experience or knowledge about this.

At the very least, the police should be notified to investigate and the school should fully cooperate / assist where they can. It becomes a criminal investigation and the school will be limited in what they can say about it. Their role is limited.

I was an NCS parent during the infamous Google doc incident. The girls were tracking harassment and assaults by STA boys. A boy found it on his sister’s computer, and all hell broke loose. The obvious consequences: the girls got in trouble.

Uh shouldn’t have the sta boys gotten in trouble for harassment and assaults?

[Anonymous]

This is the private school world. Most cover it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very few will have experience or knowledge about this.

At the very least, the police should be notified to investigate and the school should fully cooperate / assist where they can. It becomes a criminal investigation and the school will be limited in what they can say about it. Their role is limited.

I was an NCS parent during the infamous Google doc incident. The girls were tracking harassment and assaults by STA boys. A boy found it on his sister’s computer, and all hell broke loose. The obvious consequences: the girls got in trouble.

Uh shouldn’t have the sta boys gotten in trouble for harassment and assaults?

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You would think. But no, the Close protects the boys over all else.

[Anonymous]

In MCPS they say teachers are mandatory reporters but when sht goes down zip your lips or lose your job. Simple as that.

[Anonymous]

Historically private schools try to hide sexual assaults. Thats the norm.

[Anonymous]

Happened to my DD at a local parish school. Boy was ultimately expelled but school kept the details quiet and never addressed the changes they committed to making. We left shortly after.

My DD worked with a local counselor. They acknowledged many parish schools had a “boys will be boys” mentality and their unwillingness to teach sex-Ed hampers kids’ knowledge of how to identifying and reporting inappropriate behaviors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, I hope that there have been no assaults at your schools. However, if there have been allegations of student-on-student assaults where no charges were filed, how did your school deal with it? Does your school disclose when there have been alleged assaults? Or say how they investigated or what prevented measures they have taken? I understand that if there have been no charges filed the school may not want to alarm parents potentially for no cause. On the other hand as a parent I want to know so I can try even harder to try to educate my child about how to potentially avoid such an incident and also just make an informed decision about the safety of my child.


(mods, I understand that this is close to the topic of the other threads you’ve locked down, but as a parent of a child at a school with an incident, think an open discussion of how schools typically respond would be very helpful)

This isn't Reddit.

[Anonymous]

Given what I've seen over the years, victims and their families should go first and foremost to the police. Schools and colleges inevitably fail to respond adequately.