Posted on 06/04/2015 4:30:11 AM PDT by markomalley
Parents at a North Carolina middle school want an explanation after learning school officials launched an investigation into a sex video made by students at school, and didn’t inform parents.
“I don’t know why is should be a secret,” an unidentified parent told WCNC. “I’d rather hear the truth than a rumor.”
The truth is police responded to Carmel Middle School in Charlotte Tuesday afternoon over allegations that two 14-year-old students were recorded on video performing a sex act at school, during school hours, on May 22, WBTV reports.
One of the teens involved allegedly distributed the video, as did another person that wasn’t identified. North Carolina state law doesn’t specifically prohibit sexting, but the teens could face charges of possessing child pornography, cyber bullying or sexual exploitation, officials told the news site.
District officials told WCNC they believe the video was viewed by a small number of students, and therefore didn’t think that notifying parents was necessary.
Parent Toula Gallis, however, seems to think that’s a pretty lame excuse.
“I would imagine it’s probably a privacy issue for the student that was involved,” Gallis told WCNC, “however I still feel like parents should have been notified.”
Other parents said the students should face severe consequences for the incident, if true, to prevent similar activities in the future.
“I think they should be suspended for at least a week from school,” Nick Morgan said. “You’ve got to make an example of them so it doesn’t continue because if you let kids get away with it, it compounds itself and gets worse.”
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Youth Crimes division is investigating the case, but wouldn’t discuss the details with the media.
The North Carolina middle school sex scandal comes as officials in Indiana’s Warren Township schools field complaints from parents about similar reported sex activities between students at Raymond Park Middle School.
“School leaders including Principal Kathy Deck refuse to answer community concerns about a classroom where two middle school students engaged in sexual activity with other students possibly looking on. The fallout is getting louder. 13 Investigates’ story was picked up by MSNBC on Thursday,” WTHR reports.
“Neither the superintendent of the district nor the president of the school board has made an on camera statement about this,” local radio host Amos Brown told listeners, according to the news site.
The news site contacted the Indiana Department of Education in hopes of spurring the agency to intervene, but department spokesman Kevin McDowell said the issue is none of the state’s business.
“Indiana is a very strong local control state and the General Assembly expect the school districts to be able to address concerns of their constituents without having to report to any higher administrative entity. That means us,” he said.
McDowell told WTHR the state will only step in if sexual incidents involve special education students, and that students watching their classmates engage in sex acts at school isn’t big concern.
“This doesn’t pose any danger to the other students even if they did see it,” McDowell said.
The Indiana Department of Child Services is now investigating the incident.
Why are we in this handcart and where are we headed? I smell sulphur.
CC
McDowell told WTHR the state will only step in if sexual incidents involve special education students, and that students watching their classmates engage in sex acts at school isn’t big concern.
“This doesn’t pose any danger to the other students even if they did see it,” McDowell said.
McDowell needs to be removed immediately
Two more reasons to home school....
That one is right up there with Scheifert’s “our job is to decide what people need to know...”. Neither of them seem to comprehend just what it is that is wrong with what they said.
Happy, dems?
Happy planned parenthood?
More and more it appears the answer to so many of our problems is to even more disengage from the other side of our country. Not just home school but every aspect of our lives. Years ago I sort of satirically suggested we “divorce” into a Blue and Red. Blue money, blue companies, blue churches, etc. go our own way and let the Reds go theirs. Now it seems about the only way to go short of serious violence. While we would be happy to let them go I don’t think we could ever get them to leave us alone.
Did McDowell view this child pornography?
confusing local.
Looks like the school is in NC but the township is called Indiana.thats what I came up with?
probably added it to his collection
Based on the Bill Clinton definition this may have not been “sex”.
You need to ping metmom on stuff like this, as I have done.
Call it a gut feeling, but I bet dollars to donuts it's being hushed up by the school administration because the two teens are gay boys...
A kid having sex at school will probably not be too concerned about being suspended.
Was race a factor? was there racial diversity in the sexual video? Was there gender diversity or was it homosexual? Was there a single transgender student having sex with its self?
There are two incidents discussed in the article. The headline incident occurred in North Carolina. A similar incident recently occurred in Indiana.
-PJ
Man, that's some "get tough" policy there......
Reread thanks.so McDowell is in Indiana?
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