Montgomery ISD parent urges independent review after son fractured in locker-room assault
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Summary
At the March 24 board meeting a Lake Creek parent described a January assault that broke his son's jaw and asked trustees to order a formal review, confirm whether required threat-assessment procedures were followed, and consider an independent investigation into the district's response.
Ryan Anderson, a parent of a Lake Creek High School junior, told the Montgomery ISD Board of Trustees on March 24 that his son's jaw was broken in two places during a violent assault in the varsity locker room on Jan. 7.
Anderson said the student underwent three-and-a-half hours of surgery that inserted two titanium plates and 27 screws, required the jaw to be wired shut for weeks and caused his son to miss substantial school and athletic play. "This was not a scuffle," Anderson told trustees. "This was a violent assault."
Anderson said district staff initially treated the incident as a fight and did not remove the alleged assailant from the general population. He cited Texas Education Code and state safe-schools guidance that, he said, require immediate removal of a student after an assault and mandate a threat assessment when threats to kill or harm students are made. Anderson said the district's internal timeline acknowledged breakdowns — including a delayed response and lack of supervision — but concluded at a Level 2 that requirements were met and declined an independent review.
Anderson asked trustees for three actions: a formal review of how the district is applying statutes on immediate removal, confirmation that required threat-assessment procedures were completed, and consideration of an independent review of the incident and the district's response.
The parent framed his request as a matter of consistent enforcement and future student safety: "Student safety is not measured by what is written in policy. It is measured by what is done in moments like this," he said.
The board did not take formal action during the public-comment period; the district's presentation later in the meeting addressed other agenda items. The transcript does not record a direct response from district leadership to Anderson's request or any vote on commissioning an independent review.
Next steps: Anderson requested that the board pursue the three items he outlined. The meeting transcript shows no immediate vote or directive to staff on those requests; trustees did not discuss a formal follow-up on the public-comment floor during the remainder of the recorded meeting.
