Friday, February 08, 2008

Wapato, WASHINGTON

Again???!!!

Feb 8, 2008 - Teacher unnamed.

A local elementary teacher on paid-leave for coming to school drunk was pulled over by police and given a ticket for driving with a suspended license nearly two weeks ago.

Police stopped the first grade Camas Elementary teacher near Grandview and is being charged with second degree driving with a suspended license, which under law, could be taken away for more than a year.

The teacher is currently on probation for a hit and run, DUI and reckless endangerment charges from the winter of 2006. There is also a charge of leaving kids in a car to drink at a bar.

The Wapato school district put the educator on leave last year for allegedly coming to school drunk and leaving parents and other teachers to take care of students during a field trip.
TT - The teacher wasn't named in December either when she was arrested. (Third time in a year.) Despite being asked to, the state superintendent's office never investigated because - and this is priceless - the alleged behavior happened during summer break and it didn't affect students or the district.

That was before her arrest for leaving her own child in a car while she went into a bar. She was suspended for leaving a group of children alone during a field trip while she vomited in the field and then passed out on a school bus.