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Parent urges independent review, alleges repeated safety and records failures at Marion City Schools
Summary
A Marion parent told the board the district failed to document classroom evacuations, notify parents, preserve video evidence and improperly invoked FERPA; he asked the board to commission an independent review of safety documentation and public records handling.
A Marion parent on April 28 asked the Marion City Schools Board of Education to commission an independent review after alleging repeated failures by the district to follow safety‑notification, behavior‑management and public‑records procedures.
At the meeting, parent and taxpayer Owen Oswald said his family experienced “a pattern of serious failures” including omitted documentation of classroom evacuations, missing functional behavioral assessments and no timely parent notification following emergency evacuations. Oswald said the failures involved one classroom at George Washington Elementary and that evacutions occurred seven times in the incident series he described.
Oswald also told the board he had been denied or told video used for discipline and law‑enforcement purposes had been withheld or destroyed in response to his…
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