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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
When can we hear about the issue with the pending legal action, huh, huh??
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Hmmm not sure. I guess an outline won't hurt now I've calmed down a little. Basically looks like my kids teacher is going to be prosecuted for "inappropriate touching" whatever legal category that falls into. Of course it's up to the law to make a decision, but all of the parents at the school who know him believe him innocent, but he is a touchy-feely teacher and that's why we and our kids love him, so there's a good chance he put himself in a stupid position with a kid that was new in the class and has many issues that might lead to them or their parents having a different interpretation of an event of being made to feel uncomfortable..... The truth will out I'm sure.
But here's the rub -he was cleared by the school district but the parents weren't happy so they went to the police -they said they'd investigate of course but did not prosecute immediately, so the parents went to faux news who ran a "story" with a reinactment of a spanking with a pillow (
) -which is not the original allegation- and interviewed the mom "disguised" -now we all know who the kid is and so do our kids who are missing their favorite teacher.....
So now the poor kid had to attend school with a class that hate her because they're too young to really get that it's not her fault, the teacher cannot attend school and has his 35year blemish free teaching career looking to be in tatters -even if he's cleared, there's no undoing the damage, the class is getting a string of subs who don't understand the way the class runs -it's a team-taught class at an alternative program school -two classes two teachers all mixed together in two rooms- because their regular sub -the one who knows how it runs- is the regular teacher's son, so obviously that's not a good idea.
It's a mess. And we've already had a couple of run-ins with this family and they've only been at the school this year. I wrote more but erased it because it might make them too eady to identify.
But I think I can relate this one: their son was on our swim team, got a headache so we gave him water, had him sit down and call his parents. They felt we should have called an ambulance because the headache developped into a migraine, and went to the district to file a complaint. Not the AD or the principal, but the district. We had to fill in incident reports etc (of course we did the right thing, no complaint was upheld -most coaches would have told them to man-up and swim.....)
See I knew it would make me rant. sorry.
And that poor girl, she's emotionally and cognitively impaired, this isn't going to help. I understand the need to investigate etc, but to go to a news station and villify the teacher and expose the girl when it's still in investigative stages... grrrr.... and apparently, there is almost always a prosecution if there has been any media coverage, regardless of how little evidence there is, because the allegation in itself is evidence enough to prosecute unless they can demonstarte it was an outright lie. Which I doubt.