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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m glad the parents took the step of sending a letter to the community because maybe it will lead to some new information.  And I understand they feel let down by the school and law-enforcement.  Their number one concern is their child as it would be for any of us.  Yet, amidst the sadness I have for what happened to this boy, and my anger at the perpetrators, and my frustration that no suspects were identified, I’m also left with a sense of dismay by the people in this thread that think that somehow the school has some great culpability and malfeasance. With a lack of justice, people think that somebody has to go down for this and that somehow it should be GDS and the HOS, and I think that’s just wrong.  The school was told not to interfere with a law enforcement investigation.  And the protection of privacy laws cannot just be waived. It’s a terrible situation, but that’s reality, folks.  [/quote]

Utter bollocks. [/quote]

At the end of the day, we simply don't know what happened. We know what was alleged to have happened. You can believe the victim and also acknowledge that the story has a lot of holes in it. [b]What I find interesting here is that a few families in the grades in question have chimed in here to say that they are comfortable with the process and outcome. [/b][/quote]

NP but I don't think that's very interesting at all.  Aside from the fact that people have said there's a popularity component to the reaction, I think it's always easier to hope/assume nothing bad happened and no rapists are around your kids than to have to worry that you're dropping $60k/year on a school that prioritizes brand protection over kid protection.  Just World fallacy + discomfort with thinking about something that's genuinely upsetting to think about, of course they want to call it done and move on.  I mean think about it -- if this actually happened, then the rapists' parents obviously have a vested interest in chiming in on social media to insist that trying to find rapists is just hysteria.

I obviously don't know what happened but I don't think that current GDS families saying "nobody's concerned about this, kid must have been a liar" is any kind of evidence.  [/quote]

They might also be like the “no one liked this family in the first place” comments, which is to say, very obviously planted by someone intent on steering this thread in a particular direction. (Everyone liked the family!)[/quote]

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