Ploeger was one of several current or former school district employees criticized in an investigation into the district’s response to the sex-crime allegations made against Gilkey-Meisegeier. That investigation, by Milwaukee attorney Samuel C. Hall Jr., found district leaders didn’t do enough to investigate the allegations.
The investigation found that “school-level and district-level administrators failed to recognize Title IX obligations” — a reference to the federal law against sex-based discrimination in schools.
That failure “resulted in insufficient investigations into serious allegations,” Hall writes in his report, released on Jan. 6. “Investigative practices were poor, with limited interviews, lack of documentation, and an HR-centric approach that was not primarily focused on the students involved.”
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The full story on how “George Floyd Era” DEI lead to the promotion of a dangerous public-school employee, and then how DEI caused school officials to look the other way. From the defendant’s own attorney…
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“What qualifications did he have for that? What training did he have for that? What supervision did he get for that? None,” Van Wagner said.
Van Wagner told WMTV 15 News that Gilkey-Meisegeier should not have been in a supervisor position in the Sun Prairie school, and instead should have been supervised. Van Wagner said Gilkey-Meisegeier suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome and lacked the qualifications necessary for his position.
“The judge depicted him as the kind of person who’s a predatory when really he is a victim of sorts,” Van Wagner said.
Van Wagner also said Sun Prairie promoted Gilkey-Meisegeier to dean without training or credentials.
“They didn’t really look. Why? Because they had a person of color who had a degree. It was in the post-George Floyd era. It was in the DEI era. And the last thing they were going to do was remove a young black man who they viewed as a professional staffer who was apparently popular with and supported by the young people of color in the high school in a district where young people of color were becoming more numerous,” Van Wagner said.