The school's procedure for adjudicating charges against students who don't attend the events which are scheduled for them to attempt to defend themselves in person seems to be to find the student guilty of everything. I have to think that's what happens, since it was so difficult to defend myself in person last year even though I attended every meeting that was scheduled about the case.
The proceeding which the school has scheduled for me this time is on July 5, 2017. I am sure that if I attend it, it will be a degrading process in which I have no support or help from anyone, in which everything that I say in my defense will be denied, and at the end of which I will either be expelled or forced to agree to humiliating terms that refute the idea that anyone harassed me, that formally and in writing designate me as the culprit in yet another situation in which I was victimized, that will be a permanent part of my academic record and substantially harm my ability to transfer to a 4-year school for my Bachelor's degree, and that will make me vulnerable not only to being harassed at school again but to being expelled immediately if I ever try to report harassment to the school again.
The deadline for adding or dropping a class without financial penalty has passed. Even the deadline for withdrawing from a class at a cost to me of more than $1000 (which I don't have) has passed. I don't even know if my trying to withdraw voluntarily from the school would stop the school from pressing these false charges against me and inscribing them in my transcript.
I sent the President of the school a link to this blog last week, so she should know what's happening. She has never responded to any of my previous emails, so I don't know if she'll stop the administration from maiming my academic and professional careers or not.
Copyright L. Kochman, July 3, 2017 @ 6:04 p.m.
