No doubt, the Sierra Canyon School down there in Los Angeles is a super famous one, which takes kids from pre-K to 12th grade. But right now, this school is being famous for all the wrong reasons, and you must have heard a lot about how there was this “kiss club” going on inside the bathrooms of this school, and even though the school came to know about all this earlier on, but they chose to do nothing at all about this. So, no doubt, this matter had to end up in court, and that is what happened in December 2025, and now we know about it as the Sierra Canyon Lawsuit. Let’s get to know the details now.
How Did Things Reach This Point?
It’ll get your blood boiling if you find out how things really escalated in this case. So, let’s start from the very beginning, so, according to an initial account by a mother, in 2023, she had been telling the school again and again that her daughter was bullied and had become so terrified of the bathrooms that she wouldn’t have used them if it were possible. And it wasn’t just her; the families of many students kept on with legal representatives to claim that the bullying just didn’t stop, and on top of that, the bathroom-related incidents kept on getting worse and worse from 2023-24. And the peak point in this case was when this “kissing club” got second-grade girls aged 7 and 8 involved in these unmonitored bathrooms.
But on the other hand, if you want to know what the school did about it all, see, as per their statements, they conducted a thorough review and took the actions they considered appropriate. That was at the end of the summer of 2024. But parents were still saying that this investigation was launched too late, and the school did practically nothing to make it safe for the children. So, it was just in 2025 that parents had had enough, and now there are two court cases going on. And it is talked about a lot by the mainstream media, so these cases are actually getting national coverage at this point.
What Exactly Do the Lawsuits Say Happened?
And just in case you don’t know what the entire matter really is and why there is so much talk going on about this Sierra Canyon Lawsuit, then you should know the full story. So, as per the details that are already out, the lawsuit states that a handful of second-grade girls, primarily two 8-year-old girls, were the ones operating the “kissing club” in the bathroom where no adults were around. And? What happened in those bathrooms behind closed doors with those little girls? It turns out, there were big girls who were forcing the little girls to do a bunch of things that you can count as sexual harrasment, like kising each other, touching private parts, and whatnot.
What Are the Main Legal Claims Against the School?
If you have read this far about the case, then you must have already gotten the idea of some of the big mistakes made by the school itself, right? Like, there was no safe environment for the kids, the school didn’t even handle this situation, even though there were complaints coming up by the parents. And then there is that phone incident where the teacher copied the photos and videos to their phone and showed it to other staff without doing anything about it. All in all, this matter has become super serious, and now these cases are ongoing, so if you want to know what goes down, then just keep on checking back for the updates.
