Notably, the WC/FCS Board of Education only allows speakers wishing to address official agenda items during the comment time during their official broadcast. These points were made eloquently by concerned parent Cheryl Groves during public comment time towards the end of the meeting. This may indicate there will be no serious consequences forthcoming for any WC/FCS employee who helped initiate, stood by, and cheered on the incident-only, potentially, for the drag queen that performed the act.Īlso, the board failed to explain how simply updating existing policies would prevent similar incidents in the future since current policies were clearly violated and if no WC/FCS employees are ultimately held accountable. Yet, to date, there is no indication any employee has been put on administrative leave, fired, or otherwise disciplined due to WC/FCS’s internal investigation.
It seems incomprehensible the school system is powerless to prevent employees-accused of wrongdoing-from working and interacting with students until law enforcement has completed an investigation. However, the board failed to address what prevented WC/FCS from taking administrative actions against employees involved in orchestrating the incident or stepping in to stop it. It was undoubtedly good news to those in attendance there was an ongoing criminal investigation.
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So, I will make sure to update the board of that.” I am just waiting on confirmation of that matter. However, I believe they are probably in the process of closing it out.
As of today, it was our understanding the was still open. Wood invited WC/FCS Legal Counsel Dionne Jenkins to comment. Wood also stated the pending criminal investigation was the reason for the board’s near silence and seeming inaction to date. “This is still, today, that is under criminal investigation.” Immediately after McManus’ presentation, Board Member Steve Wood asked to be recognized to address the situation. McManus said the proposed changes to the MOA would be presented to the board at the next monthly meeting on May 23rd. “So we can make sure we are clear moving forward on all expectations for our high schoolers that are sitting on a college campus.” ~WC/FCS Superintendent Tricia McManus
Towards the end of the Slide Deck presentation, McManus slipped in a mention that officials from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WC/FCS) and Forsyth Tech CC planned to meet and propose changes to the existing Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)-also called a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)-between the two organizations. However, the topic did come up in the middle of Superintendent Tricia McManus’ update to the board. And nothing was on the official agenda-circulated before the meeting-indicating the topic would be discussed despite the justifiable outrage from concerned parents. Despite the incident initially taking place on March 22nd, the board and its members have remained nearly silent since media reports and video began to surface. The revelation occurred during the monthly Winston-Salem/Forsyth County (NC) Board of Education meeting.
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