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Current and former Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students and their supporters banded together in Park Road Park on Saturday with a message for the school district: enact deeper, broader reforms protecting students from sexual assault, or risk seeing more students harmed on CMS campuses.
Female volleyball players were suspended for one game after staging a walkout over the decision to allow a male football player charged with sexual assault to play while wearing an ankle monitor.
A week ago, students walked out of Olympic High School. They were protesting that a football player who was charged with a felony sex offense was allowed to participate in a recent game while wearing a court-ordered electronic monitoring device. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston took a few minutes Friday to speak to reporters about last week’s walkout.
On the next Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: another LGBTQ nondiscrimination ordinance passes locally, this time in Mecklenburg County. A Charlotte high school goes on lockdown after a gun is found on campus. And voting maps are reviewed. Our roundtable of reporters will discuss those stories and more from the week’s news.
"I will not play for a team or school that punishes its athletes for wanting a safer environment," 16-year-old Sereniti Simpson said.