World Gone Nuts

There is one story that I commented on a few days ago, about a special education student in Columbus, OH who was beaten and forced to perform oral sex on several boys while others watched and even videotaped it. I found out tonight that the boy who videotaped the incident is appealing his expulsion - because, well, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, don't ya know, and didn't really intend to tape the poor girl being beaten and falling to her knees in terror and being threatened with more bodily harm if she cried out, and then having a penis forced into her mouth. Of COURSE! Why didn't I think of that? Isn't that brilliant? The poor, unfortunate boy shouldn't be expelled because, even though he was there, and totally did what he's accused of doing, it's not his fault because if he hadn't been at that place at that time, he wouldn't have done it.
I hope I cleared that up for all of you who may have been confused about this.

And here, yet another story about another school - this time in San Francisco. A 14-year-old girl, apparently distraught, reports to the principal that she has just been sexually assaulted, but does the school call the police? Of COURSE not. Why would the school do THAT? Don't be silly. They called her parents, and then told her to get on the bus and go home. But, instead, this remarkable girl actually WALKED herself to the nearby police station to make the report the school refused to. Has the world just gone friggin NUTS!?

I was just talking to the daughter about these incidents, and also relaying to her some of the interesting stories that have been on SC&A lately. I asked her if it was as common as is being portrayed..kids giving kids blowjobs in the bathrooms, etc. She graduated two years ago, but she said even then it was happening all the time. And, it was partly for that very reason that during her senior year the school instituted a policy requiring bathrooms be kept locked during classes and only unlocked during class changes...with a teacher posted outside OR INSIDE each bathroom. I had never known this. How could I have missed this?

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