Bullying-to-Death Superintendent Adriana Kuch lectured teachers on ending violence
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The former superintendent who tried to shift the blame for the suicide of 14-year-old bullying victim Adriana Kuch gave a lecture to teachers on how to eradicate violence in schools.
Speaking in a 2018 television interview with Jersey Matters about the Parkland school shooting, Triantafilos Parlapanides, a former head of the Central New Jersey Regional School District, said it was everyone’s duty to watch for warning signs to end the shooting. school violence.
She also said that social media was a great tool for finding perpetrators of violence or threats, and touted her district’s policy of working with police to act quickly when disturbing video is flagged.
But that’s not what happened when a viral video of four teens beating Adriana at Central Regional High School went viral, and the victim took her own life two days later.
Parlapandines finally resigned last week following a backlash after he suggested that Adriana committed suicide over her alleged drug abuse and the suicide of her own mother.
Triantafillos Parlapanides, who resigned as superintendent of the Central New Jersey Regional School District, said it was everyone’s duty to watch out for warning signs of violence in schools during a 2018 interview (above).
However, the former superintendent is now accused of wrongdoing after 14-year-old Adriana Kuch (above) was beaten and humiliated by a group of four girls at her high school.
In the 2018 video, Parlapanides said it was easy to prevent tragedies at school as long as everyone was active and vigilant.
“I think it starts with the parents, the students, the teachers, the administrators, the police, everyone working together to make sure everyone is communicating,” he confidently remarked.
‘As I said, many of these children will show signs. We have to make sure we don’t miss the signs.
He added that the signs were pretty easy to find nowadays because everything is posted on social media.
“The only good thing about all kids these days is that they put everything on Instagram, on Snapchat.”
He also boasted that his district has a memorandum of understanding with the local police department to “notify them immediately” when acts of violence or threats are reported.
However, the police were not notified after Adriana was beaten by a group of teenagers on February 1. The humiliating video was posted online and the torment continued until the victim committed suicide in her closet two days later.
Parlapanides initially deflected blame away from the school, suggesting that Adriana’s suicide was prompted by her alleged drug use and her mother’s suicide, which she said was fueled by an affair allegedly had by Kuch’s father, an Army veteran. .
After intense backlash, the superintendent resigned in disgrace, but the district said during a board meeting Thursday that he remains on the payroll at his $195,343 salary.
District officials said they had yet to act on his resignation despite appointing Assistant Superintendent Douglas Corbett as acting district head.
The district declined to comment on Parlapanides’ current role in the district.
Under the terms of the district’s contract, the superintendent cannot be fired or have his salary reduced unless he is charged with criminal offenses, is found to have committed fraud, or if he and the board mutually agree to his departure.
The district confirmed that Parlapanides remains on the payroll with his $195,343 salary, but declined to comment on his current role.
The former superintendent came under fire after he suggested Adriana (pictured) committed suicide over alleged drug abuse and her mother’s suicide.
Adriana’s bruised legs after the attack. Her father said that the video of her mainly “humiliated” her, which made her feel as if she had been attacked “twice”.
Michael Kuch, Adriana’s father, previously explained to DailyMail.com how his wife battled addiction and tragically died in 2015, when Adriana was just seven years old.
He denied Parlapanides’ claims that “drug counseling” was offered to his daughter, explaining instead that he and his wife sought help for her because she had been smoking marijuana with a vape, as many kids at school did.
“I don’t know how to respond to this insane deviation,” Michael said in response to the superintendent’s emails.
“This guy is a piece of shit,” he added.
Adriana’s father believes the school failed his daughter by not calling the police on the bullies after the attack.
Adriana committed suicide after seeing her taunts on social media, and after one of the girls sent her a direct message laughing about it.
‘I can’t begin to tell you how angry I am at the school, at the police department… If those videos hadn’t been posted, these girls would have ended up with a one day suspension or no problem at all. ,’ he said.
All four girls have been formally charged with the beating. One was charged with aggravated assault, another with harassment, and the other two with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
According to her father, Adriana was ‘hit in the face three times with a water bottle’ and ‘passed out’. She then had to take her daughter covered in blood to the police station to file a report because the school refused to do so.
Michael Kuch (above) slammed the superintendent over claims the grieving father and Army veteran had an affair that led to his wife’s suicide in 2015
Adriana’s death has sparked nationwide outrage and increased scrutiny over bullying, as a slew of videos of students being attacked on the East Coast have been shared online in recent weeks.
One such attack occurred Monday at Cosgrove High School in Spencerport, near Rochester, New York, with video showing the moment an assailant slammed a boy half his size to the ground.
The 15-year-old assailant was charged with third-degree assault following the attack, while the school also withdrew him for the remainder of the year.
However, the accused bully has since spoken out, as he claims his suspension was racially motivated, but other students have warned that he has a history of violent attacks on younger students.
Footage from the attack shows the large ninth grader confronting his victim, who was half his size, for the first time.
In another horrifying East Coast bullying incident, a Virginia mother shared footage online showing her 12-year-old son being strangled to death by an older girl on a school bus.
Mother Taylor Brock said that despite the girl having a 60-pound weight advantage over her son, the bully savagely beat her son while grabbing him by the mouth.
Brock has joined many others in condemning the recent spate of bullying.
She said that even though the girl was told to walk down a different hallway, after a period in which she was suspended for the incident, her son still sees her and even has to share his lunch break with her.