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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of a victim here (I hate having to say that but I guess it gives my comments more cache.) Just wanted to address some of the comments I've read on here and clarify a few things...

[quote=Anonymous]Holy crap. as the saying goes, no matter how flat you make a pancake, it has two sides. so obviously there lawsuit is one side, written with a lot of hindsight. But if even 20% of it is accurate, my god.[/quote]

It’s 100% accurate.

[quote=Anonymous]All of this rah-rah-we-are-such-a-strong-community is such a slap in the face to the victims and their families. [/quote]

Personally, I don’t think so. It’s the community that is partly helping me keep my shit together.

[quote=Anonymous]LAMB families who can’t handle the understandable reactions from observers that there must be something fundamentally broken at their school need to step away from threads like this. Telling people they can’t have opinions or to “stop talking” is pretty telling. It screams “nothing to see here” which is precisely the attitude that allowed this tradedy to happen. Most parents get it. You have sent your child to a school so you have to believe it’s a good place, a good environment otherwise you’re a bad parent. So you have to convince yourself that you’re doing right by your kid. And I’m sure Lamb does have a strong community and committed teachers but you’re being naive to assume it will be able weather the storm of lawsuits it’s about to get hit by. Insurance has limits. [/quote]

I think any LAMB families who are still under the impression that nothing is broken at the school are the ones who have had their head in the sand and probably wouldn’t be on this thread anyway. Families are WELL aware that something is fundamentally broken. It’s just that they are choosing to face the music and try to fix it instead of running away. And yes, I do feel guilty for not seeing what was happening. Am I a bad parent? Sometimes I think so. But in my heart I know I’m not. And I still think I’m doing right by my kids by sending them to LAMB.

[quote=Anonymous]The lamb community is trying to weather this storm 
Translation: 
We are trying to brush this under the rug and move on as quickly as possible so we can pretend like it didn't happen.[/quote]

Not true. See above.

[quote=Anonymous]Parents who are so defensive of LAMB and the actions of the leadership are probably feeling guilty for keeping their kids in a school that sweeps sexual abuse under the rug.[/quote]

Or they have no idea what was/is going on. Those that do, aren’t defensive.

[quote=Anonymous]In reading #92 I was so dismayed that the administration allowed a meeting occur where an apparently unqualified staff member talked to the students (without parents present) and stressed secrecy. WTF?!??! [/quote]

It was actually a school counselor. A PhD in psychology. And she was fired. WTF is right.

[quote=Anonymous]It can and will happen anywhere, but I think it will especially happen in places that lack a professional work environment because the principal or head is also the founder who thinks of the school has his/hers and is personal friends with the teachers. I assume that the teacher was allowed to continue because the head/principal thought he was a great guy who would never do such a thing. We they personal friends? It is hard in a work environment, but as a boss, you want to be friends but still have a critical distance from employees so that you can fire someone when rules are broken (basement play) even if you think them a great guy.[/quote]

They were/are(?) really good friends. Too good of friends. It totally clouded their judgment.

[quote=Anonymous]It's really sad how a handful of LAMB supporters are misdirecting their anger and sorrow on this board at people who have taken the time to read the filing and are responding to the catastrophic failings that they read about.[/quote]

The problem though is there is so much more to know than what is in that filing and people are talking as if they know everything when they really don’t.

[quote=Anonymous]The school isn't sitting on a multi-million endowment, and it is leveraged up to its eyeballs with mortgages on its facilities. [/quote]

No it isn’t - it rents two of the three campuses.

[quote=Anonymous]Based on the filing, it's tough to see how a jury won't find in favor of the plaintiffs.[/quote]

I’d be REALLY surprised if this even made it to trial.

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Thank you for taking the time to comment. So much uninformed yammer on this board, I swear. I guess people can't help tue rubbernecking.

One thing, though, I've not yet understood: who was counsel to the directors during all this (2015 especially)? Or did they counsel themselves? To me all the secrecy is odd and the not telling parents; were they really just trying to protect their friend, or, didn't they ask for some legal advice? Or even advice from police what to disclose to whom? If not, that's crazy to me. There should be some caution when no cause for arrest is found (in case it really had been nothing, say) but that should be under advisement of some kind of legal team, I would hope.[/quote]

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