15 more reasons to homeschool

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A teacher at Carencro High School is the subject of a police investigation and may face prosecution after parents of two students reported him to local law enforcement authorities, accusing him of "inappropriate behavior" with his students.
According to officials with the Carencro Police Department, the parents of two female students came forward to police nearly two weeks ago, with their daughters, one 15 years old and the other 16 years old, accusing the male teacher of making inappropriate comments and making both students feel "uncomfortable," said police.

Dandi Hardin, assistant chief of police of Carencro, said a sexual relationship between the students and the teacher has never been implied, suggested or admitted to in this case by either party.

"It's hard to say if it was a criminal act," said Hardin.

"We were unable to determine if it was a crime or just inappropriate. But we're not going to make an arrest."

In response to the complaints from the parents and students, investigators began looking into the matter, interviewing the teacher, whose name is not being released at this time by police, his colleagues at Carencro High School, counselors, and the complainants.

Over the course of two weeks, Hardin said, proving a crime in the matter became difficult.

"There's really no evidence of a crime being committed here," he said. "Nobody's saying there was a sexual relationship here. They're just saying it has been uncomfortable for them to be around this teacher."

(Yes, you did read that correctly. They are more caught up in finding a broken law. What happened to common sense? Grown men who make innapropriate comments to children should never be allowed around children! I just love this part, "just saying it has been uncomfortable for them to be around this teacher." Wow....


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Rocklin teacher cited in alleged assault on student
A physical education teacher at Whitney High School in Rocklin has been cited by police for misdemeanor assault over an incident Friday in which he allegedly grabbed a 15-year-old student by the throat and flipped him back over the chair in which he was sitting.

The teacher, John Bosco, 47, of Roseville, has been placed on an administrative leave with pay pending an investigation into the incident, the Rocklin Unified School District reported.

Police Capt. Dan Ruden said the incident was triggered by the student making a comment that angered the teacher.

"My understanding is that it was something to do with (the teacher's) daughter," Ruden said, adding that police are still putting a report together.

Bosco was reached at his home today and referred all questions to his attorney, Brad Wishek of Sacramento.

Wishek would not discuss details of the case, but made a statement on Bosco's behalf.
(Read the comments for this article, they are amazing.)


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Mother wants teacher sued
STRUTHERS — The mother of a Struthers Middle School pupil said she intends to pursue charges against a substitute teacher accused of assaulting her 15-year-old son.

The boy was on his way to the bathroom between classes Thursday when a man he recognized as his substitute math teacher advanced on him, police said.

According to a police report, the teacher grabbed him by his shirt, pushed him against a wall, and said, "I have the right to beat your ass." The incident was spurred when the boy began clapping his hands, the report said.

Foley said she was disappointed school administrators did not contact her regarding the incident. It is ironic, she said, that she had enrolled him as part of Struthers' open-enrollment program believing he would be safer than at Youngstown schools.

"They call me every time he does something wrong," she said. "For them to not even call and say anything about it — that made me mad."

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Teacher Accused of Heroin Possesion at School
A Charlotte Mecklenburg School teacher is facing drug-related charges for allegedly abusing drugs at school.

George Terry McDonald, 50, is an art teacher at Bruns Avenue Elementary School and McAlpine Elementary School.

CMS officials said McDonald resigned on Monday after the assistant principal of Bruns Avenue walked into McDonald's empty art classroom. The administrator said the art teacher tied off his arm and had spoons and two balloons of heroin in front of him.
The assistant principal immediately called the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. School officials said no children were affected and the students were not aware of the situation.

The assistant principal said he was concerned and went into the classroom to check after students had tried to go to art class and found a note on the door which read, "Classes are canceled from now until Friday."

In 2005, McDonald was arrested in Buncombe County in 2005 for drug-related charges. CMS hired him in September of 2004 and his background check at that time came up clean.

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Teacher gets 4 years for dealing 'ice'
Lee Anzai's sentence for dealing meth is reduced because he had no prior record.
A former Leilehua High School special education teacher was sentenced to four years in federal prison for dealing nearly a pound of methamphetamine last year.



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POMONA - The arraignment for a local elementary teacher accused of lewd conduct with a minor has been postponed, court officials said.
Marco Antonio Irigoyen, 43, a teacher at Rio Hondo Elementary School, is facing five felony counts of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 14. He is expected back in Pomona Superior Court on June 12.
Irigoyen, of West Covina, was arrested by the West Covina Police Department on May 22 after an anonymous phone tip that was received the week before.
The four alleged victims in the case are not Rio Hondo students, police said.
Irigoyen is being held at Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.



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A Kanawha County school board member is calling for reconsideration of a proposed drug-testing policy after a teacher was charged with possession with intent to deliver drugs.
State Police pulled over a car driven by Michael White, Jr., a physical education teacher at Cedar Grove Middle School, on a traffic violation early May 26.

Troopers said they found several bags of marijuana and cocaine packaged for sale in White's car. They then searched the teacher's home and found more drugs.

He was charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine, marijuana and two prescription drugs.

Mark Milam, assistant county superintendent for secondary schools, said the incident is considered a personnel matter. He would not say whether White was still teaching.


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Defense challenges sex charges against reservation teacher

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A defense lawyer is challenging the charges against a music teacher accused of molesting more than a dozen female students at the Onondaga Nation School near Syracuse.

Defense attorney Edward Menkin argues that detectives interviewed 12 of the girls and told Onondaga Nation chiefs that they had found nothing to indicate a crime had occurred.

The lawyer contends that at least two girls told investigators that teacher Albert Scerbo of Clay had not done anything to them.

The 44-year-old teacher was indicted in March on nearly three dozen counts accusing him of endangering the welfare of 17 girls, and sexually molesting 16 of them, from September 2002 to last December. Prosecutors say the victims ranged in age from seven to 14.

Oral arguments on the lawyer's motions are scheduled for Onondaga County Court on June 12th, with a trial set to start July 23rd.



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(KDKA) BENTLEYVILLE State police arrested a Washington County high school teacher for allegedly selling drugs in the parking lot of a local fast food restaurant.

Bethlehem-Center High School teacher Shawn Bellicini, 32, of Fallowfield Township, is accused of selling more than $600 worth of the powerful painkiller oxycontin to an undercover informant yesterday afternoon in a Burger King parking lot in Bentleyville.


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Former Roseville teacher Kelly Christine Spaich today made her second appearance in a Placer County courtroom in a case in which she is accused of having had unlawful sex with one of her ex-students, who is now 16.


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GRANITE FALLS — A teacher facing felony criminal sexual conduct charges in South Dakota taught in the Yellow Medicine East district during the 2001-02 school year, and left a favorable impression.

Yellow Medicine East Superintendent of Schools Dwayne Strand said he and other staff members were surprised to learn that Dave Krenz, 30, was recently accused by authorities in South Dakota of having improper sexual contact with students.

Krenz was indicted by a grand jury in Fall River County, S.D., and charged with three counts of fourth-degree rape, a Class 3 felony; one count of sexual contact with a person younger than age 16, also a Class 3 felony; and one alternate count of second-degree rape, a Class 1 felony, according to a news report by The Associated Press.



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HUDSON - A former Hudson elementary school teacher reached a plea deal Monday on her cocaine distribution and possession case just days before she was scheduled to go to trial.

Diane Soule, 55, of 6 Lee Circle, Hudson, admitted to sufficient facts for possession of cocaine. The former fifth-grade teacher, who resigned from Forest Avenue Elementary School after her Aug. 30, 2006, arrest, had also been charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The latter charge was dismissed Monday in Marlborough District Court.

Judge Jonathan Brant sentenced Soule to two years of supervised probation, which includes drug evaluations and follow-up treatments as well as random screenings. Her case was continued without a finding until June 2, 2008, which means that if she abides by the probation regulations, the cocaine possession charge will be dismissed.



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BRYAN, Texas — A former Bryan school teacher was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison on Tuesday for sex abuse including drugging a 10-year-old boy's orange juice and raping him in his sleep.

David Allen Vandyne, 43, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and no contest to a second identical charge stemming from the 2002 crime against the boy from Austin.

Vandyne formerly taught at Jane Long Middle School and Brazos Christian School, both located in Bryan, the Bryan-College Station Eagle reported in its Wednesday editions.

Vandyne told Bryan police in 2003 that he had molested about 20 boys and was feeling urges to do so again, police said. The confession led to his imprisonment in 2003 for four molestations that took place in Junction, a town about 100 miles northwest of San Antonio where Vandyne also worked as a teacher.


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A 50-year-old Whitman Middle School teacher was charged Tuesday with possession of child pornography following a police investigation sparked by a former girlfriend's complaint.

Timothy Sheehan, a 24-year-veteran of the Seattle School District who most recently taught video production at the Crown Hill-area school, was placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the case, school-district officials said.

Sheehan was charged in King County Superior Court with one count of possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, a class C felony, which carries a standard sentence range of up to one year in jail.

Sheehan's former girlfriend went to police in May, shortly after the couple broke up, and said that Sheehan had professed he was a "pedophile and a boy lover and a pederast and ... a rapist," according to court documents filed in Superior Court. His increasingly violent fantasies about raping and killing young boys were the reason she finally broke up with him, she said.

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ITHACA — Former teacher's aide and whistleblower Dwayne Robinson pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal solicitation in Ithaca Town Court Thursday.

Robinson, 43, had been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a Class A misdemeanor, stemming from several months of interactions with a 16-year-old female student at the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES.
(He got community service guys.)