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LCPS sexual assualt - who is held accountable?
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Anonymous
It's looking more and more like this is the case. If so, the Admins at Stone Bridge need to be fired. It all just feels like them using technicalities to skirt the rules and not have to make anything public. They also got to use the cover of Mr. Smith simply being an outraged "right winger" "anti-trans" parent at the SB meeting so that no further questions were asked. I mean, I remember seeing the media coverage of Mr. Smith's arrest and the entire narrative was about CRT and the trans rights bathroom bill. I don't remember seeing any coverage mentioning the scuffle resulted from Mr. Smith speaking about his daughter's SA. |
Anonymous
Exactly. And this kid isn't even trans! He's nonbinary. He sometimes wears clothes to present as more masculine and sometimes wears clothes to present as more feminine. I think people need to educate themselves more. Nonbinary does not equal trans. Wearing a skirt does not equal trans for a guy anymore than a girl wearing pants would make her trans. Making this all about the trans bathroom bill is distracting from the important fact that two young women were SA at school and no one was told anything for months. |
Anonymous
Since the headline is kind of chopped off, the Daily Wire is reporting that LCPS has failed to report sexual assaults to the state. 'The Daily Wire asked LCPS questions last week including, “Has Stone Bridge ever reported the May alleged sexual assault in any statistics or made anyone aware of it?” LCPS hid behind state law, with Director of Communications Joan Sahlgren replying that “Any information related to student information is confidential under state and federal laws regarding student privacy.” However, state law actually requires statistics on assaults and other incidents in schools to be reported to the public, in the form of annually updated statistics available on a public database called Safe Schools Information Resource (SSIR) administered by the Virginia Department of Education. LCPS reported to the state that Stone Bridge had zero sexual assaults for the 2020-2021 school year, which includes May 28, 2021. [...] The issue with missing sex assault statistics in Loudoun is not limited to the latest case, raising the prospect that untold numbers of sexual assaults and other infractions have gone unreported. In October 2018, in a case that was widely reported by the media at the time, three football players at Tuscorara High were arrested and charged with sexual assault. A source told local media that it’s believed a younger player was “held down by teammates who inserted objects into the victim” in a locker room. A spokesperson for LCPS said at the time that “the case will be subject to disciplinary action.” The annual report for Tuscorara that year reported zero instances of sexual offenses against students.' There's some other interesting info there. Ziegler's going to need to find a few schools to rename in order to keep his job. |
Anonymous
Agreed. This doesn't add up. The school has to explain why there was no communication. Shameful. |
Anonymous
The problem is the current policies allow male-bodied students to use the same bathroom as female-bodied students. As I said upthread, this removes a layer of protection for the girls. A teacher can’t stop a male-bodied student from using the girls bathroom. A peer can’t call out a male-bodied student for using the girls bathroom. Girls are expected to share their bathrooms with male-bodied students and see it as normal. This makes them vulnerable to this type of assault. There is a compromise option of allowing students who have a gender identity that differs from their sex at birth to use a private bathroom. That solution has been shot down repeatedly, because of concerns for the transgender student’s feelings. I think it’s time that we prioritize the feelings of girls who feel vulnerable in school bathrooms because of incidents such as this. Private bathrooms for students not comfortable using the restroom that matches their birth sex is a reasonable middle ground. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
So what are you doing to change the state law requiring this? Loudoun did not implement their policy out of the goodness of their heart. It is law. |
Anonymous
I’m pretty sure I read elsewhere it was forced fellatio. |
Anonymous
So you agree with the position? What are you doing? |
Anonymous
DP here. I definitely don’t agree, but LCPS can’t change it even if they want to. It’s state law as of 7/1/2021. |
Anonymous
Well then the democrats shouldn’t be surprised that the race with Youngkin is tight. This is where we are. |
jsteele
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Folks, this is not a Democrat vs Republican issue. The issue of transgender students' rights to use bathrooms that match their gender identity went all the way to the Supreme Court and the Court let stand a decision in favor of the students. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/28/supreme-court-transgender-rights-496710 The case had its origin in Virginia. I will again point out that the suspect in these two assault cases is not transgender. We really should get off the transgender discussion because it is taking away from the reality of two girls being assaulted (one of which had nothing to do with bathrooms). |
Anonymous
I understand that you think that a simple policy will make girls safer. But you aren't asking yourself. Has the rate of sexual assault risen since schools instituted these policies? Before this policy were boys regularly in the girls restroom (I would say my MIL is a principal and routinely catches kids having sex in the bathroom)? How do the actual kids feel? Do girls or boys feel more vulnerable with the new policy? Did kids consider the bathroom a safe space before this? If they fell unsafe, Is there a less restrictive method that could support everyone? For example, removing the main doors like they did in Yorktown? I really don't think the location of the assault matters that much to be honest. The kid went on to assault someone in a classroom. There was an article about a school in Chantilly where someone assault girls in a busy HS hallway. The location isn't the issue. |
Anonymous
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Here is what I see. I see a school board that has become so disconnected from parents that it cannot function. And that kind of expands beyond the board to admins and to the Super. Right now the reflexive response from the Board is that parents are wrong unless the parents agree with the board (on anything/everything). As with politics today, one side is shut off by use of various disparaging names. But if I am fighting it out with a political opponent over a glass of wine and we call each other names (in jest or in anger) it doesn't matter because we are equals. Here the board and the school system has power over what and who and how everything is done. And anyone criticizing anything they do is vilified.
So Jeff, you are right. This doesn't have to be political. But Smith was arrested because it was assumed that he was going to rail against CRT. He is white, blue collar--fits the narrative of what a CRT basher looks like. And the board was primed and ready to put one of those CRT bashers in cuffs. To flex their muscle and show that they are in control. But that is the crux of the matter. They should not be forcing their positions on people. They were elected and should strive to represent those who elected them. It is their job to listen and to think. They have to decide on things but people feel much better about decisions when they know they have been heard. But the board isn't listening. Not even to a dad whose daughter was assaulted on school property. They should step down because they have fostered such an antagonist tone (I get it that they have been yelled at but they are not innocent either) that they cannot do their jobs anymore. |
Anonymous
I told my daughter to call 911 if, God forbid, something like this happens at school. Because I have lost any faith I had that something like this would be handled appropriately by the admin. |