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.

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. 

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. 

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

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

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

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

Finally a voice of reason. 

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. 

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

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.