Amendment to notify parents of sexual assault is rejected by House Democrats
4 Video Views·Jan 31, 2025
Rep. Travis Couture's proposed an amendment to House Bill 1296 that would have required school districts to immediately notify parents or guardians if their child is the victim of sexual misconduct by a school employee.
Democrats on the House Education Committee rejected his amendment.
the underlying Bill essentially states
that schools can wait 48 hours before
they tell parents if their children were
involved in any kind of criminal action
or if there was any sexual misconduct of
Staff uh we have seen a stunning amount
of sexual misconduct and and sexual
assaults by Educators in our schools
just in the last year itself including
two uh principles in a Vancouver School
District uh that hid from parents a rape
a statutory rape of a 16-year-old female
student in their school by one of their
staff now as a parent myself I would be
disgusted and sickened to know uh if my
kids uh had some kind of sexual abuse
put upon them by staff and I wasn't
notified immediately of those things now
this happened actually in my kids school
district where an eighth grade school
teacher was grooming
and having inappropriate sexual
relationships with eighth grade
boys this is all too much commonplace
and parents deserve to know right away
whenever there is any kind of criminal
activity or sexual abuse or sexual
allegations of staff that goes along
with the safety of their children for
God's sake please vote Yes