Today in Norman Oklahoma students are walking out in silent protest against their school and how the school handled the bullying of rape victims. First the facts, as they are at the time of this blog.
- The alleged rapes occurred off campus away from the school.
- The alleged rapist has not been charged or arrested by police, despite the incident happened two months ago. Rather the investigation is still ongoing.
- The alleged rapist was suspended from school for passing around the video of the encounter
- At the time of the suspension only one victim was known, currently there are four.
- When the girls returned to school they were met at the door by their classmates taunting them. At this time the school had no knowledge of the alleged rapes.
- Now that the other victims are known, they are cooperating fully with the police.
So my question is this. Other than suspending the alleged student and fully cooperating with the police, what more could they have done. They had no prior knowledge of the events, thus no way to foresee the bullying that happened to these young girls. Maybe I just don't get it. Why of all things do they protest a school that has done nothing wrong?
