05/27/2026
How many students saying specific staff members have made them feel uncomfortable and scared does it take to get Quincy Public School District 172 to prioritize student safety over the staff members still getting paid (by us)?
Asking for a few dozen friends and community members.
I'd be concerned to leave kids in the care of anyone at all who does not understand threatening five year olds that if they aren't quiet you will put flooring tape over their primary airway, *and then doing that*, could be physically dangerous and psychologically damaging.
I would not trust any adult who I'm not even friends with or possibly have ever met more than one or two times to take portrait photography of my children and post it on their own personal internet pages without my knowledge or consent.
Why would an adult have kids grind up sidewalk chalk, get the kids to put their hands in it, and then have the kids slap their little hands on that adult's butt to leave a fun chalk imprint of a child's hand on the adult's shorts? (To be fair, Kirby's intake paperwork does say she thinks kids need to be very "hands on" to learn.)
There are two options in this situation: They knew what they were doing, (in which case they shouldn't be around kids), or they didn't know what they were doing (in which case they shouldn't be around kids).
What I don't understand is why anyone would try to help the adults who touched and threatened and berated the students escape full accountability for those actions; Occam's razor is pointing toward an attempt to escape self-indemnification. That'd be morally bankrupt, but it'd be rational...
If you want to know why kids struggle with respecting adults, one reason is because we allow adults around them who choose to not respect kids' autonomy and who do not help the kids understand what consent means.
If anybody is looking for a really great case study about the psychology behind "r culture" in the context of persons in roles of authority normalizing, marginalizing, and ignoring the rights of individuals they consider subordinate, look no further.
The idea that "concluding positively" would mean these abusers are put back into QPS schools around Quincy's kids is... mind-shattering.
The older I get, the heller the no.
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