It’s not exactly news that public schools are disaster zones in many parts of the country, but it’s dispiriting that we get slapped in the face every day with news about just how corrupt the schools actually are.
Case in point: Portland public schools covered up the rape of a 9-year-old girl, suspending the perpetrators for an entire day.
Harsh punishment, I must say.
One day. I can’t get over that. Rape. One day suspension.
Family of Portland girl, 9, file $9M lawsuit against school where she was gang raped in the bathroom – and her attackers were suspended for just one day.
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— 𝕏𝕔hi𝘭𝘭iຖ໐iˢ (@chiIIum) April 4, 2024
There is not one bit of reassuring news in the report. If the school could do something wrong, they managed to do it. They didn’t punish the perpetrators. They didn’t report the assault. They…
