Report details allegations of misconduct at Cate School as far back as 1960s

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Cate’s report comes months after the elite Thacher School in Ojai released an extraordinary 91-page report that detailed sexual misconduct allegations against faculty and revealed open secrets and long-buried trauma at the boarding school.

More than a year after the private Cate School in Carpinteria commissioned an internal investigation into accounts of faculty sexual misconduct against students, aearlier this month details accounts of inappropriate behavior involving 17 former faculty members and stretching back to the 1960s.

The report describes several instances of sexual relations between various teachers and underage students that includes kissing, touching, grooming of students while in school who became sexual partners after graduation and an allegation of molestation in the 1960s. Most of the instances took place at the elite boarding school — a community where teachers often live on campus and are easily accessible to students. The school is among more than 85 schools with boarding facilities in California.

Among the findings, the report affirmed that the Cate School administration was aware of James’ problematic behavior for months before he was terminated.The allegations of misconduct and inappropriate “boundary crossing” at the Thacher School date to the 1980s. James was terminated in February 2020 after a student told administrators that in October, James had placed his hand on her thigh while watching a movie. The administration filed a report with Child Protective Services, but according to the Oppenheimer report, CPS believed the account “did not rise to the level of being ‘reportable.’”

Alumni and students have expressed disappointment in the report itself, citing its condensed findings in comparison with Thacher’s 91-page investigation, and with the board’s response.

 

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