“This is the school’s reputation, but these are our lives, and I want to make sure that nobody’s put into danger because of the protection of other employees at ETHS,” she said. She said she spoke up so that something would finally be done to address possible wrongdoing at ETHS. Tomaradze told board members she feared for the safety of other students who may no longer feel comfortable sharing similar complaints anymore because of the way staff members handled the allegations against Medrano. “Over the past week, a couple articles have been going around about a prior ETHS coach that has been arrested for child seduction in Indiana, and it’s known that students at ETHS complained about this coach, but other fellow coaches protected him, and the complaints were dismissed and he kept working here.”Īccording to ETHS Communications Director Takumi Iseda, Medrano is not currently working with any ETHS students and will not be coaching pending the outcome of the Indiana seduction case against him.

“There’s another thing that I really don’t want to talk about, but I feel like nobody else is going to if I don’t,” Tomaradze said at the end of the November 8 board meeting. ETHS junior and student board representative Barbara Tomaradze (left), addresses the board Monday night. According to WSBT Television in South Bend, the Indiana high school fired him in 2020. ETHS employed Medrano as a part-time coach from 2017 to 2020. Medrano, 61, was charged with child seduction in September for inappropriately touching a 16-year-old student at a high school in northwest Indiana where he also worked in recent years. At Monday night’s District 202 School Board meeting, student representative Barbara Tomaradze, a current junior at Evanston Township High School, told board members and administrators that the school did not take action against a former marching band color guard coach despite complaints of misconduct against the staff member.

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