Principal Warns Of Suspensions If Students Stage Walkout After Alleged Sexual Assaults

A Minnesota principal threatened to punish students with suspensions if they held a walkout to protest their school permitting a student accused of sexually assaulting two classmates off-campus to remain in school. The principal also allegedly called police to trigger a trespassing notification that banned the presence on the school property of a concerned mother after she had confronted him about the matter after the school district board meeting.

Zimmerman Middle/High School’s principal, Marco Voce, was allegedly confronted by Cassie Bonine on Monday night at Independent School District 728’s board meeting after Bosine discovered that no questions from parents would be answered. Bosine said she was on her way to the restroom when she ran into Voce and asked him why he had not responded to an email she had previously sent.

After returning from the restroom, Bonine claimed, she asked Voce if he had children, prompting him to answer he had two daughters, The Daily Mailreported.  Bonine said she asked, “And I asked him what if it were your daughters? How would you feel in this situation?” She later admitted she had raised her voice when she was speaking to him.

Bonine said that days later, sheriffs came to her home with a trespassing notification that banned her presence on the school property for the next year. The notice reportedly read, “The trespass notice is given due to your verbal altercation with principal Marco Voce, which you instigated, was witnessed by others and was acknowledged on social media and was considered to be aggressive, intimidating and inappropriate.”