Students, Parents At School Board Meeting Express Outrage At Those Who Were Silent About Predator: 4

Posted • November 22, 2024: It took high school students and a former student's TikTok video to get the attention of the cops and the brass at a small Oregon school district. The message was pretty simple: They're sick of the predateachers at their school—teachers that students have been complaining about since at least 2019. When the dust settled, school had been canceled due to a protest by parents and teachers, two teachers had been arrested and charged with sexually abusing students, the superintendent and principal were put on leave, and the school board chair resigned. Between the choir teacher who still taught at St. Helens High School, and a teacher who retired last year, students allegedly had been in danger for nearly a decade.

On Friday, students and parents protested outside the school the school to demand that the adults in charge be fired. Their complaint was that the St. Helens School District did nothing to protect students for all these years and, worse, that the school brass allowed a music teacher to remain in his job while being investigated by local police. A former St. Helens High student, Doug Weaver, who's now a St. Louis teacher, posted a TikTok video in September in which he related the troubles he'd had as a student with creepy teachers. That brought out multiple students who told of their current experiences with at least one teacher. Weaver, a mandatory reporter, called the St. Helen's police and the investigation began. Choir teacher Eric Stearns, who's 46, and retired teacher Mark Collins, who's 64, were arrested Tuesday.

St. Helens police reported that, "Stearns was subsequently indicted for seven counts of Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree and one count of Sexual Abuse in the Third Degree. Mark Collins was indicted on two counts of Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree and one count of Attempted Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree. Both Stearns and Collins were lodged at the Columbia County Jail." -- Student after student, and parent after parent, who came to the school board podium to pour on the vitriol against those who knew of the alleged predator in their midst and remained silent. (…)

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