Parents call for clearer employee-misconduct policy and faster communication after alleged student incidents
November 05, 2025 | Wake County Schools, School Districts, North Carolina
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Joseph Deaton recommended a separate district policy focused exclusively on employee sexual misconduct and suggested combining it with Policy 4040 on staff-student relations but renaming and reworking it to emphasize prevention and reporting. Deaton said the district's existing two-hour training under Policy 4240 is appropriate in topic but not broad enough in audience or frequency: "There needs to be training that's focused exclusively on sexual misconduct by school employees...It needs to be an annual training, not every other year like 42 40," he told the board.
Separately, a parent who described a recent school assault on her child urged faster communication from school administrators, more proactive safety plans while investigations proceed, and trauma-informed staff training. She said initial administrative contact after the reported assault took multiple days and that students should not be returned to shared classrooms or spaces where they might encounter alleged aggressors while investigations and safety planning continue.
Speakers asked the board to review how cases involving students with disabilities are handled and to ensure the district emphasizes reasonable-suspicion reporting, clear examples of boundary-crossing behavior, and protections so harmed students are not retraumatized during investigations. The board did not take immediate formal action on policy changes at the Nov. 4 meeting.
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