After accusing one of its teachers of concealing bullying of a transgender student, the Central Bucks School District is now saying federal officials contacted by the teacher also wrongly covered up abuse.
“The district is concerned that OCR’s Philadelphia office violated the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990,” requiring prompt reporting of suspected child abuse, Hunter said in the Sept. 15 letter.The letter is the latest chapter in the saga aroundagainst LGBTQ students, which the civil rights office has investigated for the past year.
against the school board’s Republican majority — points to notes taken by the Lenape Middle School principal, indicating that the bullied student’s mother had called the school and shared that she was given a civil rights complaint by a teacher. “It had already been made clear to Burgess and other teachers that the district was not taking action to address anonymously reported incidents of bullying,” the ACLU saidIn the lawsuit, Burgess said he had asked the student if he was thinking of hurting himself, but the student “earnestly told Burgess that he was not.