Nov 21, 2007 - The Hillsborough County School School Board voted to suspend John Sinibaldi, 46, band director at Plant High School. The decision was made, apparently, after Sinibaldi text messaged a student more than 525 times. The board intends to dismiss him.
School officials say... he engaged in unprofessional behavior. In a letter, they told Sinibaldi: "Your contact with the student was not desired by the parents, which caused them to question your motives, and perceived your communication with their child as inappropriate, unprofessional and overstepping your boundaries as a classroom teacher and band director."They fired Stanley Telfare, a Blake High School custodian arrested on murder charges in the death of a school secretary who had asked for court protection against him, but was denied. [He was also involved in the death of another woman. All of which makes you wonder how he passed a background check to be a school custodian.]
Also terminated was Christy Ayala, a Dickenson Elementary secretary accused of three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of a 15-year-old boy. [No online reports of arrest.]
Nov 07 - From the St. Petersburg Times education blog The Gradebook. Hillsborough school board suspends three
They voted to suspend Christina Butler, the Middleton High School special education teacher, arrested and charged with having sex with a ninth grade boy. TT - Link for Butler
