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Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Seattle Times, in an ongoing series of investagative articles titled "Your Courts, their secrets", focuses on education today and it is not pretty.

School district ignored warnings, then silenced girls fondled by teacher

It's possible the Times' finding are worse than the article's title. Here are some illuminating quotes:

A father saw Leede touch his daughter's breast in a school hallway. The newspaper isn't naming the father to protect his daughter's identity, but he gave this account:

He told Leede then and there: "If you ever touch my daughter like that again, one of us is going to the hospital and one of us is going to jail." That night, the father said, "I was in tears for not protecting my daughter better." He met with Young the next day, and Young told him: I'll take care of it. You don't need to put anything in writing. But later, the father said, Young claimed he couldn't do anything without a written complaint.

The girl's mother also met with Young. "Ed said that Carl had a clean file, that ... nobody had ever complained about him," she later told police.

After these meetings, Young sent Leede a note:

Hi Carl,
The personnel office sent us some pamphlets on safe interaction with students. After talking with you last week in regard to [the parents'] concern about you hugging their daughter, I thought that you may want to take a look at it. The pamphlet really helps to clarify what is appropriate or inappropriate. I circled the area that you may want to look at. Thanks again for listening and responding to the concerns.


Ledde is the teacher and Young is the principal who is still working in King County.

Very sad.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006


Interesting article
at Washington Post.com - I did my masters project on parent/teacher communication and I learned that "by any means neccessary" was the most effective way to communicate.