Girls suing the school argued that at least 59 girls were traumatized by “an extended, catastrophic institutional failure.” They claimed that they “were forced to go to high school while ‘deepfake’ nude images of them were circulating within the school community,” and that appallingly, Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.”
The victims alleged that the school never suspended the students even after “the LCDS upper school was in a state of acute panic and disruption related to the AI-generated images.” Instead, the school allegedly discouraged girls from going to police, while withholding information from parents and obstructing efforts to investigate the distribution of AI-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM), such as by refusing to respond to detectives seeking a yearbook photo for comparison.
Two male students have since pleaded guilty to 59 felony counts of sexual abuse of children, and their victims are hoping the court will rule that LCDS was required to report the incident to police, both by law and by “reasonable institutional practice.”
That depends how you define punishment. But, 30-40 years ago it was common to be sent to the principal’s office for all kinds of things, including disrupting the classroom, hitting other kids, etc. Sometimes kids just got a stern talking-to, sometimes their parents were called, sometimes they were suspended, for serious issues they were expelled.
It was hardly a “golden era”, but it was one where rules were enforced and kids who disrupted the ability of others to pay attention and try to learn weren’t tolerated.