Adults in the Room: Mounting Danger
2/24/202633 min
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle — named Tom Hudson — falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Hudson is accompanied by six teenage students from the school's outdoor program, who pull off a daring rescue of their teacher using techniques he taught them.
Isolde Raftery, a reporter for the school paper, plans to write about the rescue as a hero story validating Hudson’s leadership. But she learns he cut corners during the climb... and it wasn't the first time he'd done so.
This discovery leads to a confrontation betwee...
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Isolde Raftery· Host0:41
From KUOW in Seattle, welcome to Focus, your home for immersive audio documentaries in the Pacific Northwest. This season, Adults in the Room. When I was a senior in high school, my best friend, Ella Husshagen, and I heard a rumor. A popular teacher was abusing a boy at our school. Maybe abusing a boy. Maybe more than one boy. Lots of maybes. Zero proof. We told authorities what we'd heard. When they didn't act, we raised hell. And then our friends, parents, teachers, even a columnist at Seattle's biggest newspaper called us gossips,