In the Nov. 23 edition of the Independent, we reported that a mother came before the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education on Nov. 13 to say her daughter had been sexually accosted at school.
School Supt. Pete Kudlak said that was incorrect and that the mother reported her daughter having consensual sex with another student under the stairwells. He said he recently met with the mother to determine ways to keep the two apart, and they did find a way. He said the mother reported that the teens had a lookout.
The mother gave the general impression it was a sexual assault, according to two witnesses at that meeting, who said the mother said it was seven times. But Supt. Kudlak said the mother reported it as consensual.
He said people are thinking that the school has sexual assaults when it doesn’t.
— Rosemary K. Otzman, editor
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Racqel Bean originally claimed that her daughter was being sexually assaulted under the stairs at BHS and a police report has been filed. This makes it sound like the boy is a criminal and her daughter the victim. But then it comes out that the 2 children had sexual relations under the stairs 7 times.
My question is, why are these 2 students immediately expelled from school? I’d imagine having sex on school grounds, were any other student can walk in and witness it would be against the code of conduct and cause for removal. I know I wouldn’t want my 13 year old walking in and seeing this on school grounds.
Do not just punish the boy, both of these students need to be removed from this school and a standard needs to be set.