Guest Post on Garfield Field Trip Rape
Please support a much more critical demonstration next Wed, Sept 3rd , at the Seattle School Board meeting. The District is making decisions about its next step regarding the Garfield HS rape victim. We know the District’s response was outrageous, but the general public must also become educated. The self-serving Seattle Times reporting did nothing to inform the public of the facts. We know the District still pretends that no assault occurred (despite the assailant's testimony to raping/sodomizing and medical information); the District takes no responsibility for its deplorable chaperoning, nothing is wrong. The victim wasn’t even the recipient of sexual harassment, they determined. Yeah right. A successful student’s life was ruined on a school field trip where chaperones and staff failed to supervise. It was entirely and easily preventable.