Rape culture

Officials: Rockville High Rape Suspects Didn't Share Classes With Freshman Girl

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Officials-Rockville-High-Rape-Suspects-Didnt-Share-Classes-With-Freshman-Girl/?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jolt_3/22/2017&utm_term=Jolt

Excerpt: The two accused students—Henry Sanchez-Milian, 18, and Jose Montano, 17,—had arrived from Central America within the past year, and their arrest has set off a firestorm of debate about immigration and county education policy. In an address to the media, Smith pleaded passionately against using sweeping generalizations and denounced the surge of racism that he's seen since the arrests. (County citizens have since learned that an illegal immigrant can be 18 years old, enroll in the public schools, undergo no background check, and because they have no verifiable high-school credits, automatically be enrolled as a freshman, putting them in the same classes as 14 and 15-year-olds. Under the law, the school cannot ask about the student’s immigration status; the school system chooses not to perform background checks on incoming students. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt.)