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6-Year-Old Girl Forced to Perform Sex Act On Boy While Another Classmate Filmed: Report

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Parents whose children attend an elementary school in Texas are demanding answers after they learned that a first-grade girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by other students during class.

On April 19, an unnamed 6-year-old girl was reportedly forced underneath a desk at South Elementary School in Plainview, Texas, and made to perform a sex act on another student while yet another classmate filmed it on a school-issued iPad. According to a statement issued by the district, the incident “occurred away from the full vision of the teacher,” who was then attending to another group of students.

The school apparently learned about the incident the following day after another teacher confiscated the devices of several students who were not performing their assigned tasks. One such device was protected by a password and required the assistance of a technician to unlock. Once the device was unlocked, school officials discovered “inappropriate content,” the statement said. The content is believed to be related to the alleged sexual assault of the young girl, though administrators have not confirmed that suspicion since the incident involves “minors” who “have a right to privacy,” the statement said.

According to the district’s statement, both law enforcement and Child Protective Services have been involved in investigating the matter. By April 27, the teacher had been placed on administrative leave, pending further investigation, and each of the students involved had been interviewed and their parents contacted, the district claimed.

The girl’s family has told a different story, saying they learned about the incident from the girl, not from school administrators. According to the family, the girl began behaving strangely at the time of the alleged incident. Her adult cousin, Heather Gonzales, shared that the girl complained of stomachaches and other ailments. “She’s in distress,” Gonzales said. “… You can tell something’s wrong with her.” (Read more from “6-Year-Old Girl Forced to Perform Sex Act On Boy While Another Classmate Filmed: Report” HERE)

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Elementary Teacher Accused of Possessing Child Porn

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An Atlanta-area teacher is facing multiple counts of possessing child pornography after investigators received a tip from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children.

On April 14, someone from Washington state contacted the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children regarding the possible online sexual exploitation of a child by a teacher at Poole’s Mill Elementary School in Cumming, Georgia, about 40 miles northeast of the state capital. NCMEC then alerted the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.

An investigation into the NCMEC tip led police to 38-year-old James Andrew “Drew” Cecil, who had been teaching fourth grade at Poole’s Mill Elementary for about two years. He also previously spent five years as a teacher and volleyball coach at North Forsyth High School in the same district.

Cecil was arrested last Friday without incident. He has been charged with nine counts of possession of child pornography and one count of sexual exploitation of a child. He was booked into Forsyth County Jail and assessed a bond of $55,200. He has likely been released on bond, as his name no longer appears on jail records. It is unclear when he is expected to appear in court. (Read more from “Elementary Teacher Accused of Possessing Child Porn” HERE)

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Barr: Public Schools Are Now So Hostile to Christians, They’re Unconstitutional

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The West is facing its deepest civilizational crisis since Jesus Christ resurrected, and addressing the crisis requires removing militant secularists’ monopoly on education, former U.S. attorney general William Barr told a packed Christian conference in Chicago, Ill. on Saturday.

“We are going through a fateful crisis in western civilization. This is the deepest crisis we’ve faced in my mind since Christ,” Barr said. “That’s because our whole civilization is based on the Judeo-Christian tradition and that tradition is under sustained attack by increasingly militant secular forces.”

In a reprise of a 2019 speech at Notre Dame University that met massive corporate media backlash, Barr told the audience U.S. public schools have become hostile to traditional religion while wresting control of American children’s upbringing from their parents. This is a threat to the entire Western order, Barr said, because the unique American system of self-government cannot exist without a citizenry that is committed to traditional religion.

That’s because there are only two ways to restrain people from following disordered passions, Barr said: internal restraints, which are largely provided by one’s beliefs; and external restraints, which are typically provided by government. So in order to have a limited government, Barr noted in an explicit echo of the American Founders, citizens must practice self-restraint.

Such self-restraint is primarily developed through religious devotion, he said. But religious observance, the keystone of ordered liberty in the West, has been under systematic assault by anti-religious forces Barr called an “atheocracy,” his amalgam of the words “atheist theocracy.” These anti-religious forces now control the minds of American kids due to their monopoly on U.S. education institutions. (Read more from “Barr: Public Schools Are Now So Hostile to Christians, They’re Unconstitutional” HERE)

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School Systems Across the U.S. Report Increased Rates of Failure From Virtual Learning

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While more school districts face a return to completely virtual classrooms as the latest coronavirus surge sweeps the nation, systems are increasingly reporting that online learning doesn’t cut it, with rates of failure soaring across the country.

In Fairfax County, Virginia, a new report from the Office of Research and Strategic Improvement found that the percentage of failing grades so far were up more than 80% compared to last year’s rates — jumping 6% to 11%.

In the Los Angeles Unified School District, Ds and Fs among middle and high school students have surged — as school attendance fell. LA schools did not report the year-on-year differences, but districts in the Bay Area reported 50% jumps in failing grades compared to relative stability over the past few years.

In Austin, Texas, nearly one-quarter of all middle school students in the Austin Independent School District were failing at least one class, a 70% increase compared to last year. In the Van Alstyne ISD, 62% of all students participating in virtual learning were failing at least one class. In neighboring Pottsboro ISD, virtual learners were more than five times as likely to have a failing grade than students who attended in-person classes.

The detriments of virtual learning were not indiscriminate — they were felt harder in underserved communities. Lower-income households without the means to provide additional extracurricular support, students with disabilities, and students whose first language is not English all fell into a widening education gap that was largely predicted by educational researchers. (Read more from “School Systems Across the U.S. Report Increased Rates of Failure From Virtual Learning” HERE)

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School Hit With Lawsuit Over Sickening Actions by Cruel Teachers Against Disabled Child

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Three Pennsylvania teachers are the focus of a federal lawsuit alleging they engaged in bullying against a fifth-grade student in a conversation inadvertently captured on an answering machine message heard by the girl’s mother.

According to the suit filed by Beth Suhon, her daughter’s teacher called in 2015 to leave a message but failed to disconnect the line before moving on to a cruel private conversation about the disabled student, the New York Post reported.

The teacher and two colleagues at Claysville Elementary School allegedly disparaged the student, mocking her physical appearance and perceived lack of viable career options.

WTAE released the voicemail message, in which one teacher is heard saying that the student’s “teeth are crooked.”

According to the lawsuit, the educators also claimed that the student had “no strengths” and no real prospects upon leaving school.

“She could be a good coal miner,” one teacher said.

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the student has a developmental disorder known as Turner syndrome.

Suhon said her daughter has repeatedly been the target of bullying by students, noting that the remarks by teachers presented a new challenge.

“It was very difficult for me to tell my child, who has been bullied by her peers for years, that she was now being bullied by her teachers,” she said in an interview with WPVI.

In his court report, special education hearing officer Michael McElligot described the “nearly unfathomable, and frankly heartbreaking” disparagement recorded in the message.

He wrote that the teachers mocked the student’s “mathematics ability, physical appearance, and classroom behavior, punctuating these crass comments with derisive laughter.”

McElligot’s conclusion revealed that the teachers mocked other special-needs students in the recorded remarks.

They engaged in “unconscionable” deprecation of “children who clearly have significant disabilities,” he wrote.

Suhon’s lawsuit names McGuffey School District for alleged discrimination.

In addition to the comments by the teachers, she also mentions the district’s apparent decision to cancel without notice a special education program that could have benefited her daughter. Without that plan, Suhon argues that the girl — who is now in eighth grade — fell further behind her peers.

McElligott presided over a related complaint earlier this year, ruling against the district based on the evidence presented in the voicemail. He sided with the district, however, in response to Suhon’s claim that it displayed “deliberate indifference” in the decision to suspend the special-needs program.

As of the latest reports available, the district had not publicly responded to the lawsuit.

Immediately following the crude remarks left on her answering machine, the mother said she removed her daughter from the school in favor of online classes. The following school year, she said she “reluctantly” decided to re-enroll her in one of the district’s public schools. (For more from the author of “School Hit With Lawsuit Over Sickening Actions by Cruel Teachers Against Disabled Child” please click HERE)

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