The 3 Stories The Media Ignored Last Week

Every week, the media make a conscious decision to broadcast certain stories — usually, the stories that further their favored political narrative — and refuse to cover others. Here are three of the most important stories the media did not cover in the past week:

1.  Public school employees behaving badly

Since Zoom sessions during the pandemic brought parents face to face with what’s being taught in their children’s schools, tension has grown between families and public school administrators (and the unions and politicians who protect them). This week, multiple school officials were caught in incidents, including the sexualization of minors, that would only deepen that rift:

A homecoming event in Hazard, Kentucky, featured a teenage boy in a dress giving lap dances and moving suggestively toward the principal, while scantily clad female students twerked or writhed in front of other school officials. The incident went public when the school district uploaded photos, which have since been deleted, to its Facebook page. Hazard High School Principal Donald Mobelini, who is also mayor, can be seen smiling as the male bends over in front of him. Other middle-aged men can be seen as students touch them. Some of the teenage girls were dressed as Hooter’s employees. “It’s disgusting. It appears they are sexualizing young adults,” Nema Brewer of the anti-school vouchers group KY120 United, told the Lexington Herald-Leader. The Kentucky Department of Education said on Thursday that the investigation is being handled by Hazard Independent Superintendent Sondra Combs.

KENTUCKY: Investigation underway after barely clothed high school students are photographed giving lap dances to staff and administrators, paddle each other and female students dressed as Hooters waitresses during Hazard High School’s homecoming week festivities. @CBS46 pic.twitter.com/jPVkns2Kcm

— shon gables cbs46 (@shongables) October 28, 2021

To complicate matters, Kentucky sports journalist Nate Bryan posted video online reportedly shot at the 2020 homecoming of a male student writhing on the floor in a white dress to Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” before the mask-clad student appears to wrap his arms around the mask-clad Mobelini’s head.

Governor Andy Beshear (D) said that “what happened in Hazard, shouldn’t,” and “my hope is” the investigation “will be public.”

A county school board member in Florida took a group of elementary school students to a gay bar. Broward County School Board member Sarah Leonardi appeared to indicate this was an annual event, tweeting: “I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone Wilton Manors Elementary’s field trip to the