Isolde Raftery
speaker
914 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Isolde Raftery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It should just be doing your job.
But that's what we're seeing a lot of.
So these people go to, you know, it's bad for their careers to call people out.
It's actually much better for you if you do nothing.
It's not good for the kids, but it's better for your career if you just shut up.
So yeah, I would say for parents, for teachers, it's really important to just document yourself and then start requesting public records.
You have no idea how much is hiding in those public records.
It's pretty impressive because a lot of teachers
have actually been put on leave.
Seattle Public Schools and other school districts have what's called progressive discipline, where they will do some really awful things.
They'll touch a kid.
In one case, I know of a teacher straddled a kid, grabbed a kid's thigh.
Those teachers are on leave for 20 days, and then they're back in the classroom.
And regardless of what you think of it, if you're requesting those records, you yourself can start building a case.
After a final break, the adults in the room team will answer audience questions about the series.
Okay, I have been telling these stories for a long time and it felt like nobody heard them.
And when we started making this podcast, once we kind of got greenlit by KUOW, I wanted it to be part true crime, part memoir, kind of audio book vibes.
I really, really, really wanted people to hear it.
And I thought we have to tell it like a story, not sensationalize it, but tell it like a story because telling it in journalism was not resonating.
Like our stories don't win awards ever.
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