MASON — Several parents and students made it clear Thursday that they no longer consider Mason Public Schools safe, especially in light of a recent lawsuit filed against the district over its handling of a reported sexual assault.
They spoke during a school board meeting at which board members did not respond to calls from the public to address their decision to reinstate a student they initially expelled after he was found in a Title IX investigation to have violated district policy in connection with the May 2022 incident. Board members also did not mention the ongoing litigation related to the incident.
“I don’t feel safe like I used to going to school,” said Claire Enstrom, a seventh grader at Mason Middle School.
Four people, including the seventh grader, spoke out against the way the school board has handled the reinstatement of the boy, who, according to the lawsuit, was expelled for the 2022-23 school year following a Title IX investigation and reinstated following his parents’ successful petitioning of the board. He was enrolled in the same school as the girl last fall.