ALL CHARGES DROPPED.
Dec 6, 2007 - Aaron "Coach" Jackson, a teacher at Paxon Middle School, was arrested and charged with with child neglect and encouraging someone to commit an act resulting in injury to a child.
Reportedly, he called the parent of a 13-year-old boy and encouraged a father to come to the school and beat his son with a belt. The father did and was arrested. A police report states that after the attack the boy was shaking and had a large cut above his eye, a swollen arm and bruises. The father was charged with child abuse.
The 13-year-old was placed in the custody of a child protective investigator. Jackson has been reassigned at Paxon, pending the investigation.
Dec 22 - The school district is "trying to fire Jackson." The school district allowed the Florida Times-Union to review Jackson's personnel file.
In 1999, the school's principal, Theresa Hodge, formally documented Jackson's actions toward students, parents and staff. In a May 1999 reprimand letter, she cited similar incidents to the most recent one.
"Your demeanor with students has been and continues to be an embarrassment to the entire educational setting," she wrote. "Do not call parents when you are angry or upset."
Hodge also reprimanded Jackson in August of that year, saying that he screamed and punched doors when he was approached about concerns.
The school system referred Jackson for discipline to the state Department of Education that year, which determined that no probable cause existed to suspend or revoke his teaching certificate.
Jackson received mostly satisfactory marks on his annual performance evaluations, including the most recent one in 2006.
TT - Amazing isn't it how school districts can, if they want to, release personnel files? Especially when they want to fire someone. On the other hand, had a teacher had sex with a 5-year-old in the school cafeteria in full view of the entire student body, the records would be sacrosanct. Go figure.
ALL CHARGES DROPPED.
