If there is one thing government-run schools excel at, it’s failing America’s children. In fact, they are quite consistent in that regard.
When these schools aren’t busy failing to teach children basic literacy and proficiency in math, they are failing at protecting students from harm.
The latest example comes from Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, where a 13-year-old girl at Sixth Ward Middle School was expelled after slapping a boy who allegedly circulated AI-generated nude photos of her on the school bus.
In fact, this boy allegedly did the same with other girls, who eventually became fed up after the school administration refused to take action, according to ABC News.
The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed.
Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the Lafourche Parish school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing one of them to a friend.
“That’s when I got angry,” the eighth grader recalled at her discipline hearing.
Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her. She was kicked out of Sixth Ward Middle School for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.
When the sheriff's department looked into the case, they took the opposite actions. They charged two of the boys who'd been accused of sharing explicit images — and not the girl.
A boy made fake nude AI images of a 13yr old girl & circulated them around school.
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The girl complained to the school several times and nothing was done.
So she slapped him.
Then the school expelled her.#Louisiana 🇺🇲 pic.twitter.com/9OtM1DGjGr
The girl’s family reportedly approached the school in late August to complain about the images. However, Principal Danielle Coriell and the school’s leadership refused to look into the matter. Even the school resource officer didn’t manage to find the offending pictures on the boy’s phone.
Yet, only 15 minutes after the principal claimed the investigation did not turn up any evidence, the girl saw the boy showing the images to his friends on the school bus, ABC News reported. In fact, another student took a picture of the boy’s phone on which the image was displayed.
It appears the school’s leadership didn’t take the girls’ allegations seriously. The principal argued that “kids lie a lot” about “all kinds of things.”
Still, the school decided to expel the girl over the altercation with the boy even after it refused to do anything to prevent the boy from continuing to share the images.
Here’s what makes this even worse: Law enforcement eventually charged the boy with ten counts of unlawful dissemination of AI-generated images, which means there clearly was evidence that this was happening. Even further, the school never so much as gave the boy a slap on the wrist.
This incident presents a perfect case study showing why the government cannot be trusted with your children. It is one of many showing why so many Americans have lost faith in public education. If they’re not actively trying to trans your children without our knowledge, they are failing to protect them. This is what happens when government-run schools are more focused on indoctrinating students than educating them.
It is yet another reason why school choice is necessary. Many Louisiana parents are already taking advantage of recent school choice legislation. The number of homeschooling students in the state has risen by about 51 percent since 2017, according to a study conducted last year. This means almost 45,000 students are now homeschooled.
Given what happened at this particular school and many others, we can hardly blame them.
