What She Said Was True
When I was in middle school, we had this assistant principal who was a tad strange. He often would pet people’s hair and would always point out dress code violations over the most redundant things.
One day on the bus, people started calling him a creep because of something a girl had said. All of the kids spreading the story got in trouble, including the girl, and they were accused of slander. The assistant principal was later transferred to a new school that had been just built down the road.
Fast forward two years and I was eating noodles when the news came on and started discussing how our previous assistant principal was arrested for assault, getting into relationships with minors, and grooming kids. It turned out the girl who started the rumor was one of his victims.
It still bothers me to this day that they shut her up so quickly. On top of it all, she came from an abusive home with a family who hated her and a school who saw her as nothing. We need to listen when people say they are in trouble.
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