Letter to Seattle Public Schools Leadership Demands Accountability for Abuse in its Schools — & the District’s Silence
It seems very quiet at the offices of the Seattle School District’s John Stanford headquarters, in spite of a bombshell story about the district’s tolerance of student abuse in the classroom by the adults in charge.
The mismanagement of the district was on display and in the news recently with the School Board’s Jan. 22 vote to begin the process of dismantling its Highly Capable education program (see here, here, and here). This action ignored opposition from families, students and the recommendations of its own Advanced Learning Task Force.
And now a new outrage has emerged. The next day, on Jan. 23, Ann Dornfeld, a reporter for KUOW (94.9 FM), broke a lengthy story about rampant abuse in the classroom at Washington Middle School and in other places:
“A KUOW investigation found that Seattle Public Schools often allows teachers who harm students to stay in the classroom. Some are allowed to keep teaching even after multiple offenses.
The district has also, on at least one occasion, removed evidence of misconduct from a teacher’s personnel file after forcing them out of the district. Through a public records request, KUOW obtained records for 10 cases in which teachers CONTINUE READING: Letter to Seattle Public Schools Leadership Demands Accountability for Abuse in its Schools — & the District’s Silence – Seattle Education