Comments on: Chief Sealth IHS students plan walkout to ‘protest sexual harassment and assault’ after texting incident https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/ West Seattle news, 24/7 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sealth parent https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2514493 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:43:10 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2514493 In reply to A chief sealth female identifying student.

I am really disappointed in the lack of communication and follow up from admin to families I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be in the building right now. I have asked my student what the consequences were for the football players, and the fights at the wo, and there are so many rumors flying around it’s impossible to know. I am sorry that you have to devote even the smallest bit of your attention to protecting yourself from rape culture, misogyny, and patriarchy when you are supposed to be there to LEARN. It’s truly despicable.

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By: A chief sealth female identifying student https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513976 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:18:59 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513976 I feel as though this school isn’t even taking good care of the whole situation, what those boys said and did was absolutely DISGUSTING and criminal, and their punishments were most definitely not enough. Like said, this school isn’t even taking the proper measurements to protect and keep the students truly safe, many girls and people in general are SCARED to come to school, that should never have to happen at a school and students should be able to feel safe. When the walkout had happened many terrible things happened which were all stupid, first off I may not be a parent but if YOUR child is doing this and acting like this, that is YOUR fault and you should take responsibility in properly punishing and teaching your children about respect and what they should and shouldn’t do.  One thing I would also like to add is how if you are a parent and you find out your child is doing this, DO NOT act so immature and disgusting to the point you hit students and teachers and threaten to shoot up the school. That is disgusting and I am glad that the woman responsible of saying and doing that was arrested. Many people have been affected and this school has barley done anything, instead of fully addressing it and protecting the students affected they decide TO WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE SKIPPING TO THE BATHROOM!? That is terrible and the fact that they decided to do this NOW!? Supposedly this isn’t the first time this has happened as well which really just proves how terrible and how incompetent this school truly is, all schools should take the safety of their students seriously and what Chief Sealth is trying to do is not working, they might be talking to the coaches and telling them to talk to the football members etc. Sure that’s fine and good BUT this should’ve been something that would happen in the first place, why does it take until a full on incident for them to actually start talking to the football team? In all honesty this whole thing is disgusting and I in all honesty just hope that all the students affected get the justice they deserve. 

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By: Former Summit parent https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513971 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:44:59 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513971 In reply to HB137.

Summit has its own host of issues, it’s gross that you’re here pushing a charter school on an article about SPS student safety. 

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By: Public School Parent https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513422 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:55:36 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513422 In reply to HB137.

Summit may not tolerate bullying, but when students are kicked out  or pushed out for discipline issues they go right back to their neighborhood school. In my experience this happens after the October 1st count when schools may have lost staff due to incorrect enrollment projections, so classes in the neighborhood schools may be overcrowded already. Its a mess and Charter schools tend to make things worse for most students in public education. 

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By: B https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513417 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:49:47 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513417 In reply to Justin.

I too heard something about a disturbance at the protest by “parents”……

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By: Zoe https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513332 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 16:56:53 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513332 This is just further proof SPS needs to be taken over by the state and the administration dismantled. The west Seattle blog reporting that they and other media are being stonewalled is no surprise. We used to have a child in SPS but no longer. The incompetence and inaction of the district is unacceptable and harms kids and families. The kids run the school and suffer no real consequences for behavior. Planning sexual assault is a crime. 

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By: Sealth Coach https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513253 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:37:05 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513253 In reply to Sealth Student.

… with first hand knowledge, I can assure you they are no longer members of the football team.

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By: Seatlh student https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513242 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:43:23 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513242 In reply to Sealth Student.

No I know them they are all banned from high school sports and suspended for multiple months 

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By: Sealth Student https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513162 Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:47:15 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513162 In reply to Sealth Parent.

The players were not kicked from the team that is not true. 

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By: HB137 https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513120 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:43:43 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513120 Summit Atlas HS is a great alternative if you’re fed up. Our experience there is that the staff and admin handle these types of situations quickly and don’t tolerate bullying. We were tired of this type of stuff in SPS and couldn’t be happier that we switched. 

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By: Parent of 3 https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2513101 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:16:08 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2513101 In reply to Sealth Parent.

Finally a voice of reason. 

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By: Seattle Parent https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2512967 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 04:06:50 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2512967 In reply to Furious at Sealth.

Indeed/ and also the brain is not fully grown until age 25… so restorative justice would be a better process for all involved. But SPS has never had a trauma informed foundation and to this day training for teachers/staff/parents on the epidemic of sexual violence ( which has been going on in this country for decades and decades) is abysmal. Kids don’t learn to talk like that and text like that in a vacuum. They have been raised in a culture that condones it. Calling the police will do nothing as they cannot do anything unless something happens. Try reporting a stalker ( I have back in the day)  and that is what they will tell you. Hurt people hurt people unless they learn to break the cycle. And many do. But as a culture we need so much more. It begins early in childhood and every individual in a school needs to be trained for handling trauma and screened for not enacting it before getting hired. This is just the tip of an iceberg, I fear.I hope the administration at chief sealth will spend time on this and deal with it in a different way than what we normally see. That will involve hiring trained professionals and involving everyone involved including coaches in serious conversations and policy changes. 

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By: flimflam https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2512948 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:43:07 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2512948 In reply to Justin.

That’s terrible but also very telling about the students family.

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By: K https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2512933 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:55:18 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2512933 In reply to YES2WS.

Southwest Teen Life Center across the street from the school has a new group for queer identifying students and allies (You Are You) starting up next week on Thursday, October 26th from 4:00-5:30pm. I encourage any queer or female identifying teens that have been affected by this situation to come to this meeting and discuss what resources and support they would like to see outside of the school as they grapple with this traumatic situation. 

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By: ws resident https://westseattleblog.com/2023/10/chief-sealth-ihs-students-plan-walkout-to-protest-sexual-harassment-and-assault-after-texting-incident/#comment-2512917 Sat, 21 Oct 2023 01:10:19 +0000 https://westseattleblog.com/?p=1076074#comment-2512917 That character building by the team coaches isn’t effective enough. They need to work on informing students to not sexually harass, abuse, assault or bully anyone and not to ignore when they see classmates taking part in that type of behavior.Students might not have directly taken part in that specific chat with the football players, that doesn’t mean they’re not aware of how other students on the team (and the school in general) talk about sex, girls and LGBTQ people.The principal, coaches, teachers and staff and students, all need to take the issue of sexual harassment, assault, misogyny, rape culture and anti LGBTQ sentiments seriously. Many students do not feel that they are being listened to and that the students like those who took part in that group chat make the school environment unwelcoming for others around them. It’s not only the players on the football team who talk that way about girls and LGBTQ people. It is a school wide problem. 

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