Spotsylvania County Schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell made comments at the 9/9 school board meeting that show a lack of empathy on the recent child abuse scandals. Mitchell’s remarks came after public comment and board member comments which included discussion on a 3rd party investigation on the Cedar Forest Elementary Child Abuse Scandal. The child abuse issues were the main topic of discussion up until Mitchell spoke. Below are his remarks.
“I got a chance to listen and reflect a little bit while sitting here listening to all of the comments that were made by a very small sector of our school community, and I was going to deviate from my comments that I wrote tonight, but I am not going to give them that time and that energy because they don’t deserve my time and energy because of the fact that we gotta focus about kids and we gotta focus about our staff”
The arrogance of Clint Mitchell is on full display. His remarks show he is not interested in what the public has to say on the serious issue of child abuse. His remarks show that he is ignoring the calls from the public on having a 3rd party investigation. There are an overwhelming number of comments on social media supporting a 3rd party investigation that we will show you in the below video.
We believe he holds the same insensitive dismissive position with the current Miguel Velasquez Velasco child sexual assault situation. We believe this is why the superintendent still has not put out a statement on this serious situation that unfolded on 9/27. Today is 9/30. What school bus did this occur on? How fast the administration respond? Were parents on that bus notified immediately? Is Velasquez Velasco really a legal immigrant with a work permit or is being paid under the table? Below are our previous articles covering these issues.
https://spotsywire.com/2024/09/28/spotsy-schools-makes-national-news/
https://spotsywire.com/category/responsetocedarforestabuse
https://spotsywire.com/category/cedarforestabuse
I’ve been very disappointed in Mitchell so far. I had hoped he could turn things around but that hope has been crushed.
When I spoke to him privately( before the camera started rolling) he told me that Spotsy High School wasn’t able to respond to my repeated phone calls because I had just dis – enrolled my grandson! I am the grandma who spoke at the Sept. 4 th Listening Session about my grandson being bullied by 5 male teens as they tried more than once to take my grandson’s shoes. Mitchell is a joke.