Did Everett Middle School Administrators Lie to a Critically Injured Child’s Mother to Coverup a Crime?
An SFPD Mission Station source told me that a few months ago, a teacher at Everett Middle School was assaulted and threatened. The teacher asked the higher-ups to ask SFPD to respond to make an investigation and report. The teacher was informed that the school had a policy not to involve police and that if the teacher wanted to make a report, he had to go to Mission Station. Which he did.
This story is consistent with Eleni Balakrishnan’s article in the Mission Local’s article.
“Former music teacher Ethan Walker said he was physically and verbally assaulted by multiple students and received a gun threat, but that the follow-up from the school was inadequate. In at least one case, the school tried to cover up an assault.
These acts of violence follow the removal of SFPD officers as “school resource officers” at San Francisco schools as part of the defund the police and the shifting of taxpayers’ funds to nonprofits.
Per a KTVU report, 9 teachers have already departed Everett this semester because of violence with extensive bullying occurring against “English-learners.”
On Monday May 2nd, a 13-year-old boy’s mother received a call from an unknown Everett administrator that her son was in an accident and “had fallen down a flight of stairs.” The 13- year-old is suffering from life threatening injuries.
It was only upon speaking to her son that the mother found out her son was struck multiple times to the head and then physically picked up and dropped to the floor.
Why did the administrators have such a convoluted fabrication about “falling down the stairs?”
Did the administrators intentionally not ask the injured boy for his side of the story before concocting the “stair story” to his mother?
Are the Everett administrators making their students less safe in their effort to reimagine policing?
Some would call this story an issue of concern, upsetting, startling, disgusting, or even tragic.
Whatever we chose to call it, really doesn't matter, what matters is to understand how we got here as a society, why this is happening, and why all of the best intentions of our supposedly highly skilled and experienced PhD educators and School Board Administrators has failed to prevent or correct these problems.
The problems:
1. Single parent families, with a lack of positive support raising their children (What most
get is a two parent household, and with the help of extended family members.)
2. A very financially successful gang culture which has spawned it's own diversification into
entertainment. The root or core business is drug sales.
3. A lack of those professionals who have contact with those labeled as "At Risk Youth" to
either reach them emotionally, or to protect them from the extreme threats they are
exposed to where they live, and where they attend school.
4. The anti violence, intellectuals who are offended by violence, but powerless to stop it,
and don't seem to have learned that defenseless sheep have always required a shepherd
to guard them.
5. Regardless of what the teachers look like, they need to command respect from their
students. If the students come to school with no self respect, they cannot be expected to
show any respect for others or their teachers.
6. None of this mess is new. Maybe it wasn't evident in your school in 1950, 1960, 1970 etc.,
but we had some of it in the SFUSD schools I attended. The answers were always demands
for more money for more programs, always helping a very few, and never helping the very
many. Always treating the symptoms of the disease, but never addressing the causes.
The admin is required by contractual law, ed code, and mandatory reporting laws to report violent crimes. Not only did they FAIL to do so, they intentionally and willfully prevented any and all information from the incident from being shared by me to police as a "district procedure". What procedure entitles resigning admin to break the law and unprotect teachers and staff? Restorative justice. And defunded resource officers. -Ethan Walker, resigned assaulted and gunthreatened music teacher at Everett Middle School