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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What good does shutting down the school do when the principal, executive director and school psychologist have all been fired?[/quote]

I know right? Hello! So crazy. [/quote]

First off, few have [b]advocated [/b]for closing the school. As to your actual question about what good would it do, that has been answered by several posters but I will happily answer again.  The idea here is that the world is bigger than you and your kid. [b]If a school was penalized so heavily that it could not continue as a going concern then the next administrators and BOD that are faced with having to deal with credible allegations will understand that they must err on the side of protecting children, not favored molester staff. It would put everyone else in education on notice that failing to act to protect children has very real consequences.  It is known to those of us who are not self centered, myopic, me-monsters as a "deterrent".[/b]

I would be able to tolerate people like you and the person to whom you provided the amen chorus if you had taken issue with whether the school being sued out of existence was a proportional response. I happen to think it is, but it's a fair point to argue. But your pure ignorance in failing to understand how anything is accomplished by the school going away is both astounding and an indication of how very self centered you truly are. I sincerely hope that neither you nor anyone you love is ever victimized by such a predator. What we are all learning right now (see, #METOO) is that structures and institutions have enabled these types of behavior for a very long time. And until those structures change how they operate, very little can change. If there is no true cost to bad behaviors then behaviors don't change.[/quote]
Amen.  I don't know if LAMB will be forced to close, but speculating about whether or not it will isn't the same as advocating for that to happen, or hoping that it happens.

And if the school closes, that sends a very strong message to every other school that tolerating the abuse of children has serious consequences.  Because too often, the people in power choose to protect the abuser, for a variety of reasons.  It's gross that financial incentives mean more to some people than moral obligations, but that's the way it is.

I don't have a dog in this fight--I don't have a kid at LAMB, I never wanted my kid to go to LAMB, I don't really care if LAMB closes or not, so long as the school and the officials are held accountable in a meaningful way--but I have seen the way that other institutions and their supporters use the "we do so much good" line to justify and excuse their complicity in child abuse.  It's not a pan scale, with the good you do and the harm you inflict weighed against each other.  [/quote]

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