TSD Has No Plan To Fix Policies That Have Failed To Keep Your Children Safe
Former Tahoma School Board President Jennifer C. Rydberg submitted a scathing report to The Voice of The Valley earlier this week. In this detailed write-up, she highlights the district’s shortcomings and the lack of any real plan to correct the policies that led to the sexual abuse of multiple elementary-aged children by a paraeducator.
Excerpt From The Voice of The Valley: What has TSD, and specifically its Board of Directors, done in the past 15-20 months to make it far more difficult for a pedophile (that’s an adult who sexually abuses a child) to operate within the TSD? Quit. The TSD Superintendent resigned recently, as did 2 Directors. Director Matt Carreon might be compared to Nero fiddling while Rome burned – he has missed 52% of TSD Board Meetings between January and August 2023. While these Directors, and two others, did not directly abuse the affected student, they have all 5 been impotent in their public presentation to our community and have revealed nothing about even the most simple, inexpensive steps that can be taken to protect our vulnerable students from abuse while also protecting our staff and teachers from wrongful accusations.
The answer to my question was revealed in a conversation I had with Board President Pete Miller following a TSD Board meeting on October 3, 2023: absolutely nothing that has been made public. No policy changes. No status report. No plan to increase protection of students. No TSD rule prohibits one-on-one contact between an adult and child…
