As I've said elsewhere, I wish I could say this shocked or even surprised me. But it doesn't. Not even a little bit.
In my experience, schools don't care about their students. A small handful of teachers, administrators, and/or faculty may care, but the districts as a whole couldn't be bothered to give a shit.
When I was in high school, there were three instances of male teachers sexually assaulting or attempting to sexually assault female students that the district tried and failed to bury. All three teachers were terminated, but I think only one actually did jail time. But those were just the three that they *couldn't* bury; it wouldn't surprise me at all of there were many more.
And those three incidents don't include the football coach's blatant and constant sexual harassment of every attractive female student unfortunate enough to enter into his line of sight, which the administration actively buried to the point of (I'm told) retaliation against several girls who tried to get him disciplined. Couldn't risk the team's chances. The principal effectively gave all the school's athletes carte blanche to do whatever they wanted without consequence -- including assaulting special needs students -- for the same reason. Couldn't risk losing out on the championship because the stars had been benched.
The district's to five priorities were, in order:
1. The football team
2. The other boys' athletic programs
3. Avoiding even the slightest whiff of bad publicity
4. Avoiding lawsuits
5. Maintaining the status quo
Student health, safety, and general well-being didn't even make the top ten.
The area is live in. The "Not surprising" comments are completely correct. The Buffalo city Schools are a failing system; exacerbated by decades of Progressive "Leadership".
Credit Detective Hy for speaking out. He is on local media today. (Radio, WBEN.)
Been thinking about this one since I saw it on Friday.
WTF?!?
I try not to get too political on Substack, but (stuff) like this makes me want to bring back the Judicial Woodchipper and maybe restart Lamppost decorating, pour encourager les autres.
As Ian notes, these are currently allegations, and they need to be fully investigated and then proper actions taken against any / everyone who can be established to have been involved.
Not to forget the outside lawyers that are purportedly advising these actions. Losing their bar cards doesn't come close to being enough. They are co-conspirators and should be adjudicated as such.
Thank you for posting. As a former corrections officer who had the misfortune of working on units "housing" the human pieces of excrement who prey on children, I can only imagine the emotional/psychological toll that comes with working in SVU. Detective Hy is doing God's work, IMO. As a current LEO, I'm not surprised by the cover-ups and political pushback on Detective Hy, especially in a big (and Blue) city like Buffalo, where they prefer "managers" over actual leaders who won't shy from accountability.
The fact is also that IF these allegations are true, these dacoits (LOVE that word!) will also cause serious, irreparable trauma to the children in their care, and that opens up a whole new can o' worms.
Update on this: the Buffalo City School Board has a "special session" scheduled for this afternoon. Is it to circle the wagons or come clean? I'll bet on the first action. The City is a Progressive sewer of Progressive corruption.
I'm thinking that since I need to check my blood pressure, and send the reading in, I probably shouldn't have read your post until AFTER taking the reading. As it is now, I will have to send in an elevated reading, because I don't have the TIME to drink an entire bottle of bourbon, just to get my pressure reduced to normalish. (And that would be an awful reason to waste a bottle of bourbon.)
Every society has some form of social contract- even the worst of 3rd world crapholes will have some system of hierarchal obligations and finical considerations.
And some are better than others- a lot of 3rd world craphole societies tend to take matters of retribution into their own hands... but they also can be quite careless about who's getting retributed. Which means the person who got retributed goes to get retribution from the first group... and you get the famous payback blood vengeance cultures of the 3rd world. Also known as 'low trust societies', 'high crime societies' and 'poor societies'- as our host well knows.
It's better if a nation functions via the same sort of Rule of Law we built in the USA over multiple centuries- but sadly, all that civic virtue stuff is seen by the political classes as hokey hooey, and is mocked and discarded. And then they wonder why we're turning more 3rd world.
Feet to the fire in no metaphorical sense. Actual feet. Actual fire.
The floor is lava...everything is lava....
Unconscionable.
I saw this over the weekend & am glad it’s getting traction.
As I've said elsewhere, I wish I could say this shocked or even surprised me. But it doesn't. Not even a little bit.
In my experience, schools don't care about their students. A small handful of teachers, administrators, and/or faculty may care, but the districts as a whole couldn't be bothered to give a shit.
When I was in high school, there were three instances of male teachers sexually assaulting or attempting to sexually assault female students that the district tried and failed to bury. All three teachers were terminated, but I think only one actually did jail time. But those were just the three that they *couldn't* bury; it wouldn't surprise me at all of there were many more.
And those three incidents don't include the football coach's blatant and constant sexual harassment of every attractive female student unfortunate enough to enter into his line of sight, which the administration actively buried to the point of (I'm told) retaliation against several girls who tried to get him disciplined. Couldn't risk the team's chances. The principal effectively gave all the school's athletes carte blanche to do whatever they wanted without consequence -- including assaulting special needs students -- for the same reason. Couldn't risk losing out on the championship because the stars had been benched.
The district's to five priorities were, in order:
1. The football team
2. The other boys' athletic programs
3. Avoiding even the slightest whiff of bad publicity
4. Avoiding lawsuits
5. Maintaining the status quo
Student health, safety, and general well-being didn't even make the top ten.
The area is live in. The "Not surprising" comments are completely correct. The Buffalo city Schools are a failing system; exacerbated by decades of Progressive "Leadership".
Credit Detective Hy for speaking out. He is on local media today. (Radio, WBEN.)
Been thinking about this one since I saw it on Friday.
WTF?!?
I try not to get too political on Substack, but (stuff) like this makes me want to bring back the Judicial Woodchipper and maybe restart Lamppost decorating, pour encourager les autres.
As Ian notes, these are currently allegations, and they need to be fully investigated and then proper actions taken against any / everyone who can be established to have been involved.
Not to forget the outside lawyers that are purportedly advising these actions. Losing their bar cards doesn't come close to being enough. They are co-conspirators and should be adjudicated as such.
HLC introduced a new character for this. Chippy.
Thank you for posting. As a former corrections officer who had the misfortune of working on units "housing" the human pieces of excrement who prey on children, I can only imagine the emotional/psychological toll that comes with working in SVU. Detective Hy is doing God's work, IMO. As a current LEO, I'm not surprised by the cover-ups and political pushback on Detective Hy, especially in a big (and Blue) city like Buffalo, where they prefer "managers" over actual leaders who won't shy from accountability.
Where are the men who will not tolerate this? Where are the ad hoc militias who visit these evil people in the night?
We must become those men.
We must visit the workers of iniquity in the night.
We must extract the justice which the system is incapable of.
The fact is also that IF these allegations are true, these dacoits (LOVE that word!) will also cause serious, irreparable trauma to the children in their care, and that opens up a whole new can o' worms.
It's New York State, if this is prove true, they will, maybe, be fired instead of being fed into a wood chipper.
Update on this: the Buffalo City School Board has a "special session" scheduled for this afternoon. Is it to circle the wagons or come clean? I'll bet on the first action. The City is a Progressive sewer of Progressive corruption.
May God protect Detective Hy.
I'm thinking that since I need to check my blood pressure, and send the reading in, I probably shouldn't have read your post until AFTER taking the reading. As it is now, I will have to send in an elevated reading, because I don't have the TIME to drink an entire bottle of bourbon, just to get my pressure reduced to normalish. (And that would be an awful reason to waste a bottle of bourbon.)
I misread the title and saw "Investigations now, Giblets later." But no matter. Either works for me.
Unconscionable.
Every society has some form of social contract- even the worst of 3rd world crapholes will have some system of hierarchal obligations and finical considerations.
And some are better than others- a lot of 3rd world craphole societies tend to take matters of retribution into their own hands... but they also can be quite careless about who's getting retributed. Which means the person who got retributed goes to get retribution from the first group... and you get the famous payback blood vengeance cultures of the 3rd world. Also known as 'low trust societies', 'high crime societies' and 'poor societies'- as our host well knows.
It's better if a nation functions via the same sort of Rule of Law we built in the USA over multiple centuries- but sadly, all that civic virtue stuff is seen by the political classes as hokey hooey, and is mocked and discarded. And then they wonder why we're turning more 3rd world.
Glad I avoided calls involving children. I'm with Sean Valdrow. Social contract indeed.