Obama’s "Safe Schools Czar" Expresses Regret for Not Reporting Statutory Rape
Barack Obama’s “safe school’s czar” Kevin Jennings hid pedophilia from authorities. Jennings violated a state law that required him to report the abuse.
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was a huge Obama supporter last year and was earlier this year promoted to “Safe Schools Czar.”
Jennings spoke to an audience about the incident in a speech he gave in Iowa in 2000.
He did not express any remorse for not reporting the incident to authorities:
Audio via Warren Throckmorten.
Today Jennings expressed regret for the statutory rape that he hid from officials.
Jake Tapper reported:
A senior official of the Department of Education expressed regret today for an incident that happened when he was a young teacher in the late 1980s, saying he should have handled it differently, but that society could benefit from his error.
Kevin Jennings, director of the Department of Educationâs Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools and founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), has been criticized by social conservatives for a passage in his 1994 book âOne Teacher In Ten.â At the time, only a few people knew that Jennings, then a 24-year-old teacher at Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts, was gay. In the Spring of 1988, a young woman who knew Jennings was gay, brought to his office a high school sophomore whom Jennings called âBrewsterâ in the book.
As Jennings wrote:
ââBrewster has something he needs to talk with you about,â she intoned ominously. Brewster squirmed at the prospect of telling, and we sat silently for a short while. On a hunch, I suddenly asked âWhatâs his name?â Brewsterâs eyes widened briefly, and then out spilled a story about his involvement with an older man he had met in Boston. I listened, sympathized, and offered advice. He left my office with a smile on his face that I would see every time I saw him on the campus for the next two years, until he graduated.â
Jennings in 2000 told a GLSEN conference that Brewster told him he ââmet someone in the bus station bathroom and I went home with him.â High school sophomore, 15 years old. That was the only way he knew how to meet gay people. I was a closeted gay teacher, 24 years old, didnât know what to say, knew I should say something quickly. So I finally, my best friend had just died of AIDS the week before, I looked at Brewster and said, âYou know, I hope you knew to use a condom.â He said to me something I will never forget, He said âWhy should I, my life isnât worth saving anyway.ââ
September 30, 2009
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