Latest / The Myth of Education Podcast / Ep. 08 | Children Are Not Safe in Arizona Schools: Sexual Assault at Washington Elementary

Transcript

Ep. 08 | Children Are Not Safe in Arizona Schools: Sexual Assault at Washington Elementary · The Myth of Education Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: On Thursday,
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_02: November 20th,
• 0:02
  I decided to take a little trip to the Washington Elementary
• 0:06
  School District to sit
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_02: in a board meeting.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's been a while since they've seen my face,
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_02: and I was there to observe the business of the district.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: I was not aware of the crime that had taken place just the day before,
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_02: and you know that if I had,
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_02: I would have signed up to speak.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: So Washington Elementary School District,
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: for those who do not know,
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: it's back in the headlines again.
• 0:31
  This time after a repeat sex offender walked onto campus
• 0:35
  pretending to be a doctor,
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: lured a 10-year-old into an unlocked classroom.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: This is ridiculous.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: The justice system has failed.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_02: The public education system has failed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: Do we just not care about children at all in Arizona?
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_02: You're listening to the Myth of Education podcast,
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_02: where we expose corruption in K-12 schools,
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: advocate for student safety,
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_02: and defend parental rights on school grounds.
• 1:15
  Be sure to like,
• 1:16
  share,
• 1:16
  and subscribe wherever you're listening so you don't miss an
• 1:19
  episode.
• 1:19
  Share your thoughts,
• 1:20
  good,
• 1:21
  bad,
• 1:21
  and ugly,
• 1:22
  by emailing feedback at mythofeducation.com.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_02: If you appreciate the content and want to support the broadcast,
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: visit mythofeducation.com and click the donate link.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: No amount is too small, and just $50 a month keeps us on air.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_02: Visit mythofeducation.com and click the donate link.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for listening.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: Before we get into the broadcast, we have a disclaimer.
• 1:43
  All views and opinions expressed by hosts and guests are their
• 1:46
  own and do not
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: reflect the views of any public or private person or entity.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: All rights are reserved.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, you know, I have a clip for you to kick off this episode.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: Actually, I have two clips.
• 2:00
  The first one is a powerful speech from one Washington
• 2:04
  Elementary School District
• 2:05
  parent who found out about the sexual assault on school grounds
• 2:08
  from outside
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: sources.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_02: And just as a side note,
• 2:11
  I always like to remind my audience in case this is the first
• 2:14
  episode that you're
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_02: listening to.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Washington Elementary School District in 2023,
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: they openly discriminated against Christians,
• 2:22
  voted 5-0 to terminate their student teacher contract with
• 2:27
  Arizona Christian
• 2:28
  University for no other reason than the university's stance on
• 2:32
  biblical marriage
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: between man and woman.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_02: At that time,
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_02: they had three people on the board who identified as LGBTQ,
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: but apparently the lady that we call cat ears has stepped off the board.
• 2:45
  This crime that we're talking about today took place at
• 2:49
  Orangewood Elementary School.
• 2:51
  And the headline said that this happened in a quote unquote
• 2:55
  Phoenix school.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_02: But the truth is, is that the address is in Phoenix.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's definitely a WESD school.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_02: Take a listen.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: I am a parent of a student at the Orange,
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: a seventh grader at the Orangewood Elementary School,
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: which obviously belongs to your school district.
• 3:11
  And I'm just here to share how disappointed and frankly pissed
• 3:16
  off I am at the way
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: that this entire matter has been handled over the last 24 hours.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: A little girl was raped.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: And what I heard from my school district were crickets.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: I heard,
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: actually,
• 3:30
  I received a phone call which directed me to look at an email
• 3:34
  yesterday at noon.
• 3:35
  I looked at the email and it said that the school was on
• 3:38
  lockdown or there was an incident.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then this morning at 8 a.m.,
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: I got another email telling me that a student had been assaulted.
• 3:47
  I did not find out that a student had been sexually assaulted
• 3:51
  until I was at KJZZ
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: earlier today,
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: ready to give an interview on a different topic.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: And one of the presenters was basically speaking to me and telling me,
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: oh,
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: how unfortunate is it that this happened at Orangewood Elementary?
• 4:06
  My kid goes to Orangewood and I am finding out from the
• 4:11
  newscaster at KJZZ,
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: not from the school district,
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: not from the members of the governing board,
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: not from the superintendent,
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: not
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Not from the district's Facebook page.
• 4:23
  I don't know if there are any other parents in this audience or
• 4:26
  one other parent in
• 4:27
  this audience right now who is here because a child was raped
• 4:34
  at our local school
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: site.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: This room should be filled with parents right now, and it is not.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: I think that directly shows you that you all have failed.
• 4:45
  And it's critical that you all take the steps necessary to fix
• 4:50
  these issues.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: Because two parents in a room with, what, 30 open seats is not okay.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: And at the end of the day, I get it.
• 5:02
  I saw that an administrator or somebody was put on an
• 5:05
  administrative leave.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I hope that that's not the only thing that happens.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: I hope that there's accountability held at the school site.
• 5:14
  at the school district,
• 5:15
  because the communication with the parents is obviously not
• 5:17
  working.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know who your marketing person is,
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: but you should have a conversation with that individual about actually
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_01: communicating with parents and with you all.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: Because before this meeting,
• 5:27
  I went through every single one of your social media accounts
• 5:29
  to see if you had
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: posted anything about the incident and nothing.
• 5:33
  So I have never in my 15,
• 5:37
  almost 20 years working with school districts across the state
• 5:40
  have encountered a situation where I have not at least been
• 5:44
  made aware of a
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: situation like this.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: In Roosevelt,
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: in Murphy,
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: which is one of the worst school districts in the state,
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: they communicate as terrible as it is.
• 5:55
  And how can it be that we have so many A-rated school sites and
• 5:58
  the communication
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: is not happening?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: I realize I'm out of time,
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: but I just hope that you all take this opportunity to A,
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: hold people accountable.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: and fix your systems because this is not okay.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: Now,
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: as a point of clarification,
• 6:14
  the details regarding the severity of this crime are still
• 6:17
  being confirmed.
• 6:19
  You'll hear in the next clip that the pedophile performed oral
• 6:22
  sex on the student
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_02: before fleeing the scene.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: It is not yet confirmed whether he will be charged with penetrable rape.
• 6:29
  Sorry to be graphic,
• 6:30
  but I want to make sure that the punishment fits the crime.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_02: And to be clear,
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: I think that this fool should receive the death penalty,
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_02: and I'll explain why in the next segment.
• 6:40
  This next clip that I'm going to play is from a press
• 6:43
  conference that was led by AZ
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: State Senator Janae Shimp,
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: who's my senator here in LD29.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: This press conference took place on November 24th.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_02: Take a listen to her comments.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, everyone.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being here today.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: Before I start my prepared remarks, I would like to inform everyone.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: This was just released per the Phoenix Police Department Form 4.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: The accused has been charged with sexual assault F2 as well as kidnap F2.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: The probable cause statement says this,
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: on November 19th,
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: 2025,
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: at approximately 1221 hours,
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: an unknown male asked a female student to go into a classroom,
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: touched her,
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_00: pulled down her pants,
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: The victim,
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: a 10-year-old female,
• 7:30
  participated in a dedicated forensic interview at Child Help
• 7:34
  Children's Center at
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: approximately 1,500 hours.
• 7:37
  The victim disclosed that an unknown black male was on school
• 7:40
  campus and told her
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: that he was a doctor who needed to perform tests.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: The defendant took the victim into an empty classroom,
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: sat her on the floor,
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: pulled her pants down,
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: and performed oral sex on the 10-year-old little girl.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: The defendant attempted to pull down his own pants,
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: and the victim pushed him,
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: telling him to stop.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: So for those of you that don't know me,
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Senator Janae Champ,
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: and I represent Legislative District 29 in the West Valley.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: To the media,
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: lawmakers,
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: and every Arizonan watching,
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: this is not just another press conference.
• 8:18
  This is a pivotal moment because today we're confronting a
• 8:21
  system that failed to do
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: the one thing that it is tasked with,
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: and that is to protect our children.
• 8:28
  I'm going to be blunt because,
• 8:31
  quite frankly,
• 8:31
  sugarcoating is how we got here.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: The system failed.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And when a child pays the price, excuses are not acceptable.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: We are dealing with a convicted sex offender,
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: someone who broke probation again and again and again,
• 8:48
  who snuck into an elementary school and is now accused of
• 8:52
  sexually assaulting a
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: 10-year-old little girl.
• 8:54
  This individual had already been convicted in 2021 for sexually
• 8:59
  assaulting a
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: 16-year-old,
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: a 16-year-old with autism.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: He was assigned only a level two registered sex offender at the time.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is all while being on probation,
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: federal probation,
• 9:12
  where he was offered a plea deal from the Maricopa County
• 9:14
  Attorney's Office,
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: probation for the lowest possible charges,
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: a gentle tap on the wrist.
• 9:20
  given to a child predator who pled guilty to sexual conduct
• 9:24
  with a minor and who
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: was allegedly involved with human smuggling across our southern border.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: Since 2021, he violated probation four times.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: Four times he showed us exactly who he was.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Four times the system looked away.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Four times the public was told,
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: He'll be fine.
• 9:45
  And then just days after being reinstated to the intensive
• 9:49
  probation supervision
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: for his fourth violation,
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: he was able to sneak into a school building,
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: undetected,
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: unchecked,
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: unchallenged,
• 9:59
  where he pretended to be a doctor and allegedly lured this
• 10:03
  10-year-old little girl
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_00: into an empty classroom.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: That little girl, God bless her, if she ever feels safe again.
• 10:09
  I just wanted to take a moment to point out how horrible our
• 10:14
  justice system is.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: And we're operating off of this DEI protocol now.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: This is my personal belief,
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: and I'm a black woman,
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_02: so you can write to me if you feel like what I'm saying is racist,
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: and I'll tell you what's what.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_02: But because this man was black,
• 10:31
  I think that that's the main reason why he was allowed to
• 10:33
  violate his probation
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: four times.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: He had been charged with previous sex crimes.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: against children,
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: no less,
• 10:42
  and was allowed to take plea deals and basically walk around
• 10:46
  like a free man.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_02: This has led me to coin a new definition for the word intersectionality.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: And if you don't know that woke word, then you can go look it up.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_02: But here's my definition.
• 10:57
  Intersectionality describes the intersection where the justice
• 11:01
  system and the
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_02: education system both
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: fail the most vulnerable in our population.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: And we have definitely arrived at this point.
• 11:16
  At the beginning of the WESD school board meeting last week,
• 11:19
  they had a little parade.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, maybe I'm being a little facetious.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't a parade.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: But they did parade the administrators,
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: teachers,
• 11:28
  and some students out in front of the cameras to take pictures
• 11:31
  with their A-rated
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_02: school signs with the board members.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_02: And you know,
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_02: the first 30 minutes of a board meeting,
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_02: that's when the public is tuning in,
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: right?
• 11:41
  Because that's when all of the kudos are being given and all
• 11:44
  the happy things are
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: being talked about.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: But the truth of the matter is,
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: if you stick around and you listen to the public comments,
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: that is the most incendiary part of any school board meeting.
• 11:55
  You will learn a lot about the inner operations of what's going
• 11:59
  on in a school district.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: At that point, it's not just about...
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: District business.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_02: These are parents and community members who are coming with complaints.
• 12:08
  And these are eyewitnesses to things that are being done
• 12:11
  unethically and even
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: illegally in some situations.
• 12:14
  And these are not things that the board members and
• 12:16
  administration really want to deal with.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_02: So it's one of my pastimes to go to board meetings and speak,
• 12:23
  to let them know where they're steering themselves wrong and
• 12:26
  where they're not
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_02: listening to parents.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: None of the WESD board members acknowledged the victim,
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: acknowledged the family,
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: acknowledged the outrage that was impending in the community.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: Basically,
• 12:38
  board president Kyle Clayton just threw it out there that
• 12:42
  because the investigation
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: is open that they can't respond to anything.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I just thought that was weak.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: Just like I think all of the A-rated schools, I think that that's weak.
• 12:52
  Let me just pull some numbers right now and tell you how this
• 12:57
  school district is
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: really performing.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm gathering these from the WESD 2023-2024 Arizona report card.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: It says here that 24% overall are proficient in English language.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: 53% are minimally proficient in math.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: with only 17% proficiency and then 20% proficiency in science.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: Basically, minimally proficient is exactly how it sounds.
• 13:24
  The proficient is where we want the students to be by the time
• 13:27
  they go into high school.
• 13:29
  So Washington Elementary School District,
• 13:31
  by and large,
• 13:32
  feeds into Glendale Union.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: And so these students are going into high school
• 13:37
  Barely able to read,
• 13:38
  barely able to write,
• 13:39
  barely able to do math,
• 13:41
  barely able to do science.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: But gosh darn it,
• 13:45
  if WESD doesn't have a resolution to make sure that all the
• 13:50
  LGBT students are
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: recognized.
• 13:52
  And then I also saw after this incident that they now have a
• 13:56
  resolution out there
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_02: to keep students safe.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's all a charade.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_02: Public schools are a joke.
• 14:02
  And I think that sex offenders know that security is a joke in
• 14:07
  our schools.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: They're targeting the children.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: So not only do we have predators on the payroll,
• 14:13
  but we also have predators that feel so comfortable as to walk
• 14:16
  in off the street.
• 14:17
  Do you know how much confidence it took for this psycho to
• 14:21
  follow a child inside of
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_02: the building?
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: Supposedly, there should be cameras and
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: There should be SROs walking around.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_02: There should be teachers around.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_02: Now,
• 14:30
  I don't know what time that the student arrived and I have no
• 14:34
  idea what activities
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: may have been going on.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: We don't even know why that classroom was unlocked.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: Basically, I'll just wrap it up by saying this was a failure.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: in so many different ways.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_02: I think that Washington Elementary School District,
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_02: like most public schools in Arizona,
• 14:50
  it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and it's just an unsafe place
• 14:54
  for children to be.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_02: Parents need to make arrangements to take their kids somewhere else
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_02: This incident in and of itself,
• 15:03
  let alone all of the incidents that came before it and will
• 15:06
  probably be revealed
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: after this,
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: this is an emergency.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: This is an epidemic of predators.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_02: Now,
• 15:13
  I said at the top of the episode that I would explain why I
• 15:17
  think that this child
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: predator is
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: This pedophile should get the death penalty.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not a district attorney.
• 15:23
  I'm not coming from a place of having studied the Constitution
• 15:26
  extensively,
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: having studied state law extensively.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not a judge.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not a litigator.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_02: But if this person...
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_02: has repeatedly violated probation,
• 15:38
  has raped a 16-year-old who had special needs and was just in
• 15:44
  the process of raping
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: a 10-year-old,
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_02: I really don't think that this is a person that can be rehabilitated.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: This is not a person that needs to be on the outside.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_02: To me, this person is a terror.
• 15:55
  So I just want to say to Washington Elementary School District
• 15:58
  and all the school
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_02: districts in Arizona,
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_02: those A ratings are
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_02: are trash.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know it.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_02: I know it.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: We know it.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_02: They know it.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: Arizona public schools are the excrement of public education.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_02: So as far as I'm concerned, you all deserve a big fat F.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_02: Do you agree or disagree with my take?
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_02: You can let me know.
• 16:27
  Visit mythofeducation.com and click the feedback link or send
• 16:31
  an email to feedback
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: at mythofeducation.com.
• 16:34
  Tag me on socials at Real Tiffany B.
• 16:37
  I drop new episodes every other Wednesday.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: Subscribe wherever you're listening so you don't miss a notification.
• 16:42
  Support the broadcast by visiting mythofeducation.com and
• 16:46
  clicking the donate link.
• 16:47
  To support my nonprofit,
• 16:49
  visit restoreparentalrights.org forward slash donate.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_02: Until next time, you've been listening to the Myth of Education podcast.