Fairfax High School’s response to reports that a student was groping female peers was fully consistent with Fairfax County Public Schools protocols for handling sexual misconduct, Superintendent Michelle Reid says.
FCPS hired an outside law firm in March to conduct a review of how staff and administrators handled the complaints against 18-year-old Israel Flores Ortiz after multiple parents of victims told WJLA that they felt the school had “diminished” their children’s experiences and “attempted to sweep it under the rug.”
The review is now finished, and it found that Fairfax High’s administration and staff “responded with the utmost urgency,” Reid said yesterday (Monday) in a message to families, though the law firm’s actual report wasn’t released…