Meet Page Garbee.
She's had a pretty damn bad run of luck, and must wonder what she did to deserve this.
In 2014, she was studying abroad in Poland through a program with Syracuse University. A male student, also from Syracuse University through that program, was very interested in Garbee, and kept following her from bar to bar, attempting to hit on her.
After she repeatedly turned down his advances, he finally freaked out, and punched her in the face, giving her a black eye.
She didn't report it to the police in Krakow, due to the language barrier and fear that a country like Poland wouldn't take such a report seriously.
Instead, she reported it to the school. Rather than immediately investigate and discipline and male student, the school first pressured her just to let it go, and then reluctantly investigated about 2 weeks later. The school found that he was guilty of this assault, but oddly just gave him a slap on the wrist, rather than kick him out of the program and send him home, which they had a legal right to do.
Even more offensive, Syracuse allowed the guy to be a member of the school Honors Program, and even appointed him an ambassador for their Syracuse Abroad program. As a final kick in the ass to Garbee, the student was also admitted to a Master's program at the school, upon graduating.
Syracuse University would not comment on the situation.
Here's a writeup of the whole thing: http://dailyorange.com/2016/09/insur...tudent-abroad/
Garbee had panic attacks and it took a long time to recover from the trauma of the whole thing.
However, she eventually graduated and became a teacher at an elementary school in the Washington DC area.
The school, called Achievement Prep Academy, is a public charter elementary school. In DC, a public charter school is privately run by charities, but is supported by public funds.
On May 23, 2018, they had some on-campus event called "Muffins for Moms", where female parents of students were invited to campus.
One of the moms had a female guest with her -- apparently a black lesbian on a bunch of drugs at the time. According to Garbee:
Partial video of the incident can be found at this link: https://krcrtv.com/news/nation-world...charter-schoolAll of a sudden, I felt someone smacking my behind. I stood up, bewildered, looked over and I put out my hands. I'm not sure what I said. ‘No. Stop.’ But it was a moment of shock for me. Then, all of a sudden, there was a hand reaching underneath my skirt. As the woman said, "I want to finger your pussy." Again, I started backing away. I said ‘no.’ And then she made sort of a lunging motion at me and grabbed my breasts.
The incompetent DC police took a month to locate and arrest the woman who did this, despite the identity of her friend (one of the parents in the class) being well known.
The perpetrator, Andrea Brown, said she was on PCP at the time, and was sentenced to a whopping 30 days in jail and drug treatment. (Imagine if a white man did this to a black female teacher. Do you think he'd have gotten 30 days in jail? They'd throw the book at him!)
So how did the school handle this?
Despite having a surveillance video completely backing Garbee's version of events, the school put her on involuntary unpaid leave for the remainder of the school year, costing her $3300. The school would not explain why they did that, and instead just issued this generic statement:
Apparently the unpaid leave was due to Garbee's claim that she wanted added security before returning to the final weeks of school. The school refused, and thus put her on unpaid leave when she wouldn't show up.Achievement Prep regrets that Ms. Garbee experienced such an offense on one of our campuses. None of us could have ever anticipated that an event that she herself so gracefully planned and led to honor the “moms” of our scholars, would end the way it did. We truly hope Ms. Garbee continues to heal and receive the support she needs. Our goal is not to add to any stress or cause any additional stressors for Ms. Garbee.
You'd think she'd qualify for some kind of leave after something like this!
If I were Garbee, I would sue the school for anything I could possibly find to hang on them. Awful.
She has since quit teaching and entered law school, where I'm sure some other freak will assault her and the school will cover it up.