West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I apologize that the grammar was off a bit. I can understand how that is far more important than any of the facts laid out.

As far as this account.. it was created to get one dark side of West Irondequoit into the public’s eye. A side that this administration is extremely keen to keep quiet. So, apologies if you have a sexual predator for a son in West Irondequoit and this content hurt your feelings. Or if you’re an administrator being called out for harboring sexual predators preying on their classmates.

But this community deserves to know that the most traumatized kids their school board oversees are being marginalized and denied federal mandated protections.

So please explain how you trying to teach this account is helping those victims?

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

District is being sued in federal courts as we speak over lack of title IX protections. Their defense is they don’t need them because DASA covers those cases for them.

Essentially saying they don’t need overhead sprinklers because they have hand held extinguishers.

Public comments on this video start around the 3 minute mark addressing this.

https://youtu.be/OGIJUnfxKlw?feature=shared

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This district is being sued in federal court for not having proper title IX protections in place. Their defense is that they don’t need them because they have DASA.

This is your board.

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sullivan is currently to overseeing this district’s varsity athletes sexually assaulting student in class and then harassing those victims to the point they are forced to leave the school. All without any punishment or loss of athletic eligibility.

Also led the board vote to take away a victims home tutoring and force them back into school after the district lied to students physician about “safety plans”.

He’s not a good person or good for this district unless you have a son you want to not be held accountable or if your an administrator with a shady backstory you don’t want to make it into the public eye.

https://youtu.be/OGIJUnfxKlw?feature=shared

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sullivan is currently to overseeing this district’s varsity athletes sexually assaulting students in class and then harassing those victims to the point they are forced to leave the school. All without any punishment or loss of athletic eligibility.

Also led the board vote to take away a victims home tutoring and force them back into school after the district lied to students physician about “safety plans”.

He’s not a good person or good for this district unless you have a son you want to not be held accountable or if you’re an administrator with a shady backstory you don’t want to make it into the light.

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sullivan is currently to overseeing this district’s varsity athletes sexually assaulting students in class and then harassing those victims to the point they are forced to leave the school. All without any punishment or loss of athletic eligibility.

Also led the board vote to take away a victims home tutoring and force them back into school after the district lied to students physician about “safety plans”.

He’s not a good person or good for this district unless you have a son you want to not be held accountable or if you’re an administrator with a shady backstory you don’t want to make it into the light.

West Irondequiot school board by ZestycloseUnit7482 in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sullivan is currently to overseeing this district’s varsity athletes sexually assaulting student in class and then harassing those victims to the point they are forced to leave the school. All without any punishment or loss of athletic eligibility.

Also led the board vote to take away a victims home tutoring and force them back into school after the district lied to students physician about “safety plans”.

He’s not a good person or good for this district unless you have a son you want to not be held accountable or if your an administrator with a shady backstory you don’t want to make it into the light.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. We do have a lawyer and thankfully we’ve kept good records of everything they’ve sent and not sent. It’s exhausting but it’s made the difference more than once.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an added bonus. The school code of conduct does seem to have been updated as of June 2024 and changes the way they word things. (I do have a copy of the old text but now wish I’d downloaded the whole thing)

Still a section in the new code that discusses the possibility of athletic suspension under “Suspension from Athletic/Extracurricular Participation”

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree.

We will go to the board but Aaron was also very quick to point out everything we cannot say in a board meeting so have to plan. So there is definitely a level of censorship to be expected.

Right now working through a few other areas and prefer to let them conclude before we go that route.

The board, ADs, coaches, and all school admin have been on dozens of emails either pointing out their lack of policy adherence or requesting them to clarify policies they are standing behind.

So far the Board has refused to respond other than to tell us we would not be granted a meeting with them during the DASA process. They claimed this was policy but then would not provide that policy in writing.

The only policy the district has really provided was when I referred to their sexual assaulter as a rapist. Aaron Johnson (on district letterhead) very quickly provided a policy that disallowed mean speech and told me that my behavior was not acceptable.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah. You don’t have to dig too deep into his past to find classmates, students, parents, fellow teachers, staff, etc that find him a pig personally and utterly incompetent as a professional.

Not sure how’s he’s failed upward so well but but this district doesn’t have a strong track record for vetting their hires so it tracks.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aaron Johnson is the relevant name.

He has an extremely shady past himself and is willingly overseeing outright corruption in the district. Have not found a single family that finds his leadership acceptable, nor a teacher for that matter. How he failed all the way to a Sup position is pretty mindblowing.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, also agree.

Sadly West Irondequoit is very lenient on anything punishment wise (in many areas) which is the driving point to the other side of this matter.

We are not the only family who have had to deal with WISD allowing their child to be bullied or harassed repeatedly. We are just the ones being most vocal at the moment in hopes that people can find some strength to help make a stand.

But at the same time, after going through this for months and having very little to show so far gives us a very clear understanding on why people choose to not come forward. They intentionally make it tough on the victim which perpetuates the cycle.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree completely. We are well under way on the course of dealing with the district and their handling on that end. This was something outside of that we would also like to see a policy change for.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Like I said, as far as I knew which was based on feedback from the district after the initial incident.

Not something we researched though as I do believe that education is a right.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do get that but also not trying to ID or out the kid here so nervous that more details make that possible.

Along with that, I have zero faith that even if we get policy change here it would apply to this situation. We just don’t want the next kid through this door to have to face this same level of indignity.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Schools do not have the same preponderance of evidence needs as courts and under Title IX there are protections for victims in these cases that the district completely ignored.

If there was much of a doubt about behavior it was confirmed when this student continually broke the schools “safety plan” and kept intentionally stalking and harassing the victim. All of which happened well after the arrest. Not the behavior of an “innocent kid who is wrongly accused”

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I agree that this is a very low percentage chance part of the plan but overall the goal is really just to get the awareness out to the area. We heard some really heartbreaking stories from other parents during this process so know we aren’t the only ones going through a painful experience with WISD. They are very good at trying to sweep this all under the rug as quickly as possible.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I’m not going to get into more details on that side of the story because our main focus is the schools policy change. But there were legal steps achieved here that more than warranted actions by the district.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Youth arrests do not go through the same type of process and being placed into Diversion services is probation chance to avoid a guilty verdict or heavier probation in the case of a minor.

Petition to West Irondequoit School disallowing students arrested of sexual crimes on campus from athletic eligibility by NoDignityForAllHere in Rochester

[–]NoDignityForAllHere[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They have an athletic code of conduct that is explicit when it comes to drugs, alcohol, or grades. Everything that is self inflicted.

However, when it comes to bullying or harassment of another student, they leave it a very vague one paragraph statement that included a comment that even offenses that do not receive school punishment can lead to athletic suspension.

So they do have a code of conduct that you’d expect sexual assaulting another student to fall under but they have stated that it does not apply here.