Too Soft?
Some parents are outraged this week at the outcome over what they regard as wrist-slap treatment.
But School District officials indicated this afternoon the result is not necessarily final.
The two attackers who drew separate and different punishments may yet face expulsion for their uncommonly violent ambush.
How Serious?
But some thinking in the School District will have to change before that can happen.
Judging that the assault was not serious enough to warrant urgent review by the School Board which has greater power and latitude Culver High principal Pam Magee and her fellow administrators meted out punishment based on state Education Code guidelines.
This approach incensed a number of community parents.
Feeling Safe?
When kids know they are going to get off lightly, instead of having their case brought before the School Board, they will only become emboldened, a mother said.
You dont have to be very cunning to know that you really, really have to commit some terrible act to get anything worst than a flimsy suspension.
The girls injuries were awful. This case should have gone to the School Board.
Details En Route
School District Myrna Cote said that even though School Bard members were informed of some details, additional information will be channeled to them.
While a number of pertinent facts remain cloaked in mystery or dispute, it was learned the girl and her family decided not to press criminal charges against her attackers.
The reason: Her family fears the victim will be targeted for retaliation by the girls who perpetrated the attack or by their allies.
Bullies Had Their Day
One parent told the newspaper that several years ago another girl student on the Culver High campus was bullied so ferociously that she fled the school.
She transferred to a South Bay high school, is graduating this month and will attend U.C. Berkeley in September.
It is a tragedy, the parent said, that the victim in that case was the one who had to leave the campus. The bullies won that day because they were allowed to stay.
A Report or Not?
At the time of the attack on the girl last month, high school officials informed the School Board that a police report had been filed.
Lt. Ron Iizuka, speaking for the Police Dept., said that was not true.
