Richard Watson, one of the Assistant Principals, has not been fired, even though he obstructed justice.
Here is the contact info for the Columbus Board of Education:
Terry Boyd** E-mail tboyd@columbus.k12.oh.us 5646 Concord Hill Drive, 43213 Phone: 341-6368 Fax: 365-8478
Jeff Cabot ** E-mail jeffcabot@sbcglobal.net 258 Winthrop Road, 43214 Jeff Cabot, Attorney at Law 60 East Broad Street, 43215-3549 Phone: 461-8103 Fax: 461-8105
Betty Drummond* E-mail bdrumm4573@aol.com 5742 Jardin Place, 43213 Phone: 864-4407 Fax: 365-5605
Andrew J. Ginther * E-mail aginther@triumphcomm.com 12 Hanford Street, 43206 Phone: 378-8836 Fax: 365-6426
Loretta Heard * E-mail lheard@columbus.k12.oh.us 1440 Country Club Road, 43227 Phone: 864-8477 Fax: 365-5691
Stephanie Hightower ** E-mail shightow@columbus.k12.oh.us 223 Woodland Avenue, 43203 Phone: 253-0886 Fax: 365-8454
Karen Schwarzwalder ** E-mail kschwarz@columbus.k12.oh.us 1620 East Broad Street, Unit 1503, 43203 Phone: 372-0062 Fax: 258-8880
The three assistant principals need to be fired too, not just transferred. What do they think this is, the American Catholic Church under Bernard Law?
That is unacceptable.
That oughta be a crime, too.
Glenn Beck has been discussing this on his morning radio show for the past hour.
"Three assistant principals — Vincent Clarno, Suzie Retterer-Helfrich and Richard Watson — were given 10-day, unpaid suspensions and will be assigned to other schools when they return.
I believe in education circles it's called, "passing the trash."
The story is coming out rather indirectly, then.
This amounts to a gang-rape of a developmentally disabled female adolescent, by four male adolescents.
The rape occurred. Apparently, nobody disputes that.
But what happened afterward? The school officials interceded, trying to prevent the parents of the female adolescent from going to the police authorities to report this crime.
But the perpertators involved were all minors, so far as can be determined.
The school officials were soft-pedaling this as a "discipline problem".
But was any actual discipline ever applied?
Apparently not. But then, this was not a simple prank like throwing firecrackers in the hall, or water balloons at a school dance.
Violent physical harm was done to a person of limited capacity to resist intimidation.
Those boys would have been expelled for pulling wings off flies. But a physical assault on a female is OK?
My bet is that fromer principal Regina is of the minority persuasion and that this fact, in inself, has always been sufficient to cover any lapse in judgment. The assistant principals had damn well better do what she says, or else.
Anyone have facts on the race of the vic, perps, Regina and the members of the Board? IIRC, Jesse Jackson took a break from procreating several years back and went to Columbus to help settle down unrest over the fact that the city cops had shot several brothers.
Mifflin High School is located in Precinct 7, subprecinct 72. Can't find a police report on this incident on March 9, 2005.
http://www.columbuspolice.org
Go to "offense reports" button.
They all need jail time!
And never, ever, EVER to be allowed to work around children again.
They all need jail time!
And never, ever, EVER to be allowed to work around children again.
Good riddance.
Well it's not like these boys did anything really bad, like drawing a picture of a gun.
Godalmighty.
Every d**n one of 'em, juvies and adults, ought to be in JAIL.
Suspended? SUSPENDED? I got suspended for getting into a fight with my school's resident delinquent.
THIS is NOT a 'suspension', this is a bloody prosecution. You tell me you can't prosecute these little bastards as adults? THEY ASSAULTED A LITTLE GIRL. An MR/DD girl. Good God.
Kneecap 'em.
"The board voted unanimously to place Regina Crenshaw on unpaid leave from her $95,300-a-year post at Mifflin High School starting today and to begin terminating her contract."
Good. That's a high enough salary to be painful for her to lose. The others need to go, too. Heck, ANYONE that saw or knew of this happening is guilty in my book.
Un-freakin-believeable!
The Columbus Public School Board is an absolute joke. They have been since I can remember. I attended a Columbus Public School for two years and my folks put me in a Catholic school after that. Thank God they did! I hate to say it, if my folks had not done that, I would be radically different, maybe even dead.
Board Members Boyd and Cabot are Republicans and are listed so on www.franklincountygop.org. They are definitely establishment RINO's who were put in by the establishment last year as they ran as a team with Stephanie Hightower and another member to get rid of Bill Moss.
I only voted for one board member last year and it was BILL MOSS. He is a nutjob and a Democrat but he is the only one down there that gave a damn about the kids, was not afraid to take on the establishment, and call out certain board members on wrongs they did.
He would have a field day over this.
Everyone from the teacher charged with supervising that room, to the lowliest Assistant Principal at that school to the Superintendent of the district should be immediately fired and charged with negligence.