. Inside the classroom, the district faces challenges comparable to many others: rising violence, student mental health problems, staffing shortages, learning loss.
The page was always intended as friendly entertainment. She monitored comments and kept it free of political banter.“It was all done in good taste and good fun, and it really snowballed, no pun intended,” Campbell said. debate over transgender student rights because the student was wearing a skirt at the time of the first assault. Opponents of allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding with their identity used the sexual assault to call the policy dangerous, even though it was not enacted in the districtAdvertisement
that hours after the sexual assault occurred at his school, he phoned Byard to tell him “everything.” But on cross-examination, the principal struggled to accurately recall some of the details from that day.Prosecutors acknowledged they had no documentary evidence showing that any school official had informed Byard of the first sexual assault investigation.
“I don’t know why I did that,” Byard said. “There was a work ethic put into you from a very early age that unless you were dead, you’d better be working.” It was his grandson’s observation of an outburst when Byard was screaming “bad words” at a stranger who had parked in front of their house that made him start therapy.
Then he would sit at a picnic table and meditate. Sometimes he looks for Tater Tot the rabbit or Terry the turtle, or any of the other creatures his grandson had named on trips up to the church.The jury took only about two hours to deliver a verdict. Byard sat in the courtroom waiting to hear his wife’s reaction. He knew Brenda Byard would cry regardless of the outcome.