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Lakota Local Schools Kansas Ohio

Lakota Local Schools Kansas Ohio

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Started by Kelly stevens 1 year, 9 months ago

This petition we are asking The State Board of Education (Ohio) to make changes in the corrupt behavior of administrators and employees in our public school system. We are requesting that changes be made in removing students who commit crimes and create an unsafe learning space, 80 to 180 days is not making a safe educational environment, these crimes should be enough to remove the offenders permanently. We are requesting removal of Superintendent Dr Chad Coffman and Athletic Director Kevin Yeckley as well as looking at the BOE at Lakota local schools with a consideration of recalling the Board Members positions due to the inadequate job being done to protect the students and employees. In January a student was violently attacked at Lakota in the gym locker room. The athletic director or coach was to be in the gym that afternoon and instead left the students unattended. In the months of prosecuting the students who attacked the victim, Dr Coffman and Kevin Yeckley refused to follow the court order of no contact, they refused to believe there was court proceedings going on they spread lies to the school saying that the court washed their hands of the case and we only alleged there was actual prosecution happening and after a 12 yr old boy was raped in the gym locker room and then went through a Sane Exam, they felt 80 days was enough time for those boys to be suspended and the victim to heal and learn to coexist. They only showed concern for the offenders rights to come back to school and play sports as nothing happened. They forced the victim to face the attackers and they made the victim feel as if he were the one that committed the crime, and he was not the victim. The offenders were found delinquent and admitted to what they did in court. The mother of the victim was a certified sub in the school and well liked by everyone including the student body. Dr Coffman made several calls to the mother and myself attempting to intimidate us into not getting the truth out to the Board or the parents of the school and community. Dr Coffman took her hours away from her and refused to make the school safe and left her no choice but to relocate her children to another school. There are now strict guidelines from the court on the students that committed the crime, for sport events,when they are in school and global no contact orders. Dr Coffman and Kevin Yeckley have made it very clear that the safety of the students at Lakota is not their first priority. They do not follow the code of conduct and are clearly negligent in providing a healthy and safe learning environment for the students. Since the court orders have been put into place Dr Coffman and Kevin Yeckley have not followed the court orders and have shamed the victum during a football game and lied to law enforcemement in order to hide the offenders on the property allowing them to play in a basketball game while the victim was there. Myself, my daughter and the victim were treated as criminals and had to prove to law enforcement that they infact were lying. The victim was denied food, bathroom usage and yelled at to go sit down because the offenders were there. We are requesting that the State Board of Education remove them from their positions due to their negligence in this matter. The victim and his family were so proud to be Lakota Raiders and due to the actions of Dr Chad Coffman and Kevin Yeckley they now look at Lakota as an unsafe environment full of deception.

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Reached 500 supporters

November 18, 2024

November 14, 2024

The momentum behind this effort has grown into something I never anticipated when I first hit publish. It is exhausting to face this silence every day but seeing this level of backing proves that people see the truth about what is happening in our halls.

Reached 100 supporters

November 1, 2024

239 Comments

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Anonymous
1 year ago Featured

Fremont City Schools, St. Joseph Central Catholic, Lakota Schools, and the Ohio Department of Education need to be held accountable for allowing a man who freely admitted to having "feelings" for a minor student be around kids in any capacity. This disgusting negligence can't be ignored.

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maddison garcia
1 year ago Featured

I attended lakota all my school years, we have ALL been saying things about not only the 2 listed but many other staff at that school as well! it shouldn’t of a situation like this for the schools own students/alumni to be heard.

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Kelly stevens · petition starter
1 year ago Featured

I deleted the comment of David Jacquot because this is no place to complain about a Levy that passed... it was disrespectful to the purpose of this petition. This is to hold administrators accountable for neglect, and protect the students of this school.

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Anonymous
1 year ago Featured

Sick and tired of people using their job positions as shields, I know exactly what happened in that gym room because something similar happened to me when I was a child, and I was unable to tell any of the school officials for this exact reason.

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Jeffrey Herr
1 year ago Featured

My experience with Mr. Coffman and the saftey of my children were also met with deception. It wasnt until threatening to involve the state school board would he even apologize for being deceptive. This incident involved a death threat my child received on school property.

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Kelly stevens · petition starter
1 year ago Featured

And this is my goal to make it safe for all of the students and I am also working on a bill to make ohio allow schools to enforce ridding it of threats and actually following legislation and code of conduct ... I cannot sleep or live with myself if any other child endures what my grandson did

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Morgan Dukes
11 months ago

Administration need to be reviewed & fixed asap! No CHILDREN should be afraid to go to school

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Karen Layton
1 year ago

I’m sorry, but this school needs to be majorly shut down and the parents to the child needs to sue the superintendent. The principles the teachers, they took an adult to protect these kids and they are not doing it in Lakota school district.

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