Posted on 01/22/2016 8:24:52 AM PST by NRx
That said, the Superintendent's response to this has been mishandled.
This school also had a prominent football player (a finalist for some state award) in hot water for smacking around his baby-mama at a basketball game. A misguided general concern around these parts was what this would do to his collegiate career.
One of the local tactics in Chattanooga schools is to recruit talented athletes from beyond school borders and have them "move" to reside within the appropriate boundaries. Now, "moving" may involve listing a relative's address and so forth.
It's a despicable practice that subverts the intent of localized public education; that is to have students attend school in their own neighborhoods.
Really???
That’s the same photo I saw when I called up the team site back in December when this first happened...I’m from just outside Gatlinburg and was interested in this...
Ooltewah is down near Chattanooga....
If it were my son I know 3 little bastards who would at some point down the road get a dose of their own meds with a baseball bat. I see negligence across the board here.
The season was cancelled only after public outcry forced the decision. They played several more games after the rape. I'm almost certain the victim was black. I know the woman running the go-fund-me who was his aunt was a black woman.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press has done some excellent reporting on this issue.
Okay, this story appears to be current, and the incident took place in December. If so, that photo of the team cannot show the "Freshman" victim, as any person on that team who was a Freshman during the 2014/2015 season (which is the label on the photo) would be a Sophomore this year (2015/2016). So either the reporting is incorrect, or the photo is.
“...Superintendent Rick Smith asked for a buyout of his contract...”
Buyout my butt. Adjoining cells with the three charged athletic officials maybe.
Thank you for all of #38, anything the Compost prints is asocial degenerate leftist propaganda, so I relied on nothing from the source.
I don’t get it. It says “assailants were arrested” and “never reported the Dec. 21 incident to local authorities”.
By definition is the assailants were arrested doesn’t that mean that the local authorities were notified?
It's the same in Charlotte.
Hospital staff notified authorities, not the coaches.
No, actually, the charges must track the statute. Look for the definition in the statute and see if the charges are correctly drafted.
ah...if he hospital did the call that would answer my question, so the coaches still have a responsibility to report, question is did they stick around to talk with the LEOs I guess.
school policy wouldn’t involve criminal charges of failing to report though it could lead to administrative or disciplinary action
Someone called the cops- otherwise, who did the arrest?
Sounds like the coaches are counting on some jurisdictional confusion related to their lack of reporting, since the incident happened in Gatlinburg, and they are closer to Chattanooga.
The statute, then, has butchered the English language.
IIRC, in Nebraska, there is a law that persons in certain occupations are required to report, or they can be arrested for failure to report. It is above the level of school district policy, to actual criminal charges.
Tonto...I just went back and looked at all the latest reports on this story...
The team HAS been playing games, even though, in December, when it happened, it was reported that their season was cancelled...
I have not looked at this since late December, but there is a lot of differences between what was reported then and what is reported lately...
As far as the photo, the same photo showed up minus the date on the school’s website for sports teams for 2015-16...
Obviously, this was handled inappropriately by all involved...
By the way - Washington Post is late to the party. FR had the story last year:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3378015/posts
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