Teacher Quality

The Massachusetts Senate voted on a bill to allow even less-qualified teachers into classrooms.

April 4, 2008 - Voting records for week of March 31-April 4.

Senate 34-5, voted strictly along party lines, approved and sent to the House a bill allowing appeals by candidates who are applying to be teachers but have failed one of the teacher certification tests. All five GOP senators voted against the measure that allows a candidate who has failed a test three times but came very close to passing, to appeal his or her case to the Education Commissioner.

The bill is designed to allow these candidates to demonstrate sufficient knowledge and skills to compensate for failing a test. Supporters said that this would simply allow a candidate who meets a myriad of other qualifications to appeal a test score that is only a few points away from passing. They noted that the test scoring system is a complicated one that is based on a curve that is often unfair to some candidates. Some argued that this appeal process would increase the number of teachers who are certified.

Opponents said that the bill is outrageous and gives candidates who have failed a test a backdoor route into the important teaching profession. They argued that the state should not waive requirements for potential teachers who are entrusted with the education of our children. Opponents also offered a series of amendments to set up the same appeal process for candidates taking tests to qualify to be licensed in a variety of professions including accountant, architect, dentist, nurse and psychologist. They noted that they were trying to make a point about the silliness of the teacher bill. All the amendments were defeated on voice votes without a roll call.

A “Yes” vote is for the bill allowing the appeal process for teacher candidates. A No” vote is against the appeal process.

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TT - Dumbing down education and educators. It's a political game. As one poster put it at the story:

Senate 34-5, voted strictly along party lines
House 155-0, Senate 39-0
Senate 39-0, approved and sent to Gov. Patrick .....
The House gave initial approval ......
The House gave initial approval to a bill requiring ......

voted along party lines? What party? Communist Party?
Where is the debate in all this that there is such unanimity?
Democracy is dead in Massachusetts and the liberals accuse
George Bush of saying...my way or the highway....hmmmm

But this is KK Klan country...Kennedy/Kerrey Klan and everyone is
saying ....huhhhh?

Bishop State CC - Alabama

April 4, 2008 - An arbitrator has ordered Bishop State Community College to rehire fired administrator David Thomas in a teaching post with back pay — a decision that two-year college Chancellor Bradley Byrne vowed to appeal. Thomas, a 14-year college employee, appealed under the state's Fair Dismissal Act.

The arbitrator noted that the two-year system did not pass a policy related to firing convicted felons until after officials began the process of firing Thomas. [TT - which isn't suprising considering the corruption in the two-year system where double dipping and phantom jobs for legislators is the usual means of doing business.]

Thomas was convicted of a felony hit-and-run that injured a child. He was impeached in 2006 from the Mobile County schoolboard for using $9,033 in school money to buy Mardi Gras paradethrows. He was paid $89,078-a-year job as director of adult education and economic development.
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Previous coverage of the patronage system in secondary education in Alabama.

Bishop State Community College is on probation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

Mt. Vernon, GEORGIA

This is one of those outrageous stories that we seemed to have missed last year.

April 4, 2008 -
Carrie O'Conner, 33, a Montgomery County high school counselor, was indicted by a grand jury in December 2007 on a charge of sexual assault against a student by a school teacher or administrator. According to the indictment, O'Conner and the 16-year-old student allegedly had a sexual relationship from the beginning of January until the end of July.

She was arrested in August 2007.

From the Dec 11, 2007 story:

A student reported the abuse to a teacher and a probation officer working at the school in March.The teacher and officer avoided reporting the incident to Montgomery schools superintendent Dale Clark because she is the counselor's mother.

The case was turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).

O'Conner was suspended for a short time in March, but continued working at the school through the end of the year and returned as a counselor for the 2007 school year.

When the GBI requested all contact stop between O'Conner and the student last Tuesday, Principal Luke Smith sent a letter to the boy's parents.

He wrote that the boy would be sent to the alternative school until the GBI completed its investigation. Meanwhile O'Conner could remain counseling at the high school.But on Wednesday, the school's lawyers said the student could return to school as long as he and O'Conner stayed separated.

On Monday, GBI investigators removed O'Connor from the school.

April 4, 2008 - The mother dropped her lawsuit against the against the Montgomery County Board of Education, the teacher and the superintendent.. Her lawyers filed a dismissal without prejudice last week, which means she can re-file the case in the future.

TEACHING CREDENTIALS REVOKED in 2007 Sept 18, 2007 - The Georgia Professional Standards Commission voted last week to revoke O'Conner's teaching credentials and those of her mother, Superintendent Dale Clark.

Clark, who is legally able to continue as superintendent while the ruling is being appealed, has been suspended with pay by the Montgomery County school board.

O'Connor is awaiting trial and a jury is expected to hear her case in August or in February 2009.

Worthington, OHIO

Oct 22, 2007 - Jason Crary, 36, varsity girls' soccer coach for Worthington Christian High School, was arrested after felony sexual-assault charges were filed against him in Milwaukee, related to when he taught and coached there in the late 1990s. The offenses occurred between September 1997 and March 1998.

Crary was charged in Wisconsin with four felony counts of sexual assault by a school staff member.

Worthington police led Jason Crary from the high school office in handcuffs this afternoon, three days after boys' soccer coach Dwayne Smith resigned, also because of past allegations of sexual misconduct.

TT - Crary's page at the school is still up with a picture of him, his wife and two children. It's a grim reminder how many innocent people are hurt beside the victim and the victim's family.

Smith, a science teacher, resigned Friday after he was among those profiled in The Dispatch series, "The ABCs of Betrayal." [Updated at Jan 25 story from the Columbus Dispatch.)

Oct 25 - Crary agreed today to waive extradition and drive himself to Wisconsin by Monday to answer felony charges that he had sexual contact with a student there 10 years ago. His attorney said, “He’s been an outstanding educator for more than 10 years. He’s loved by his co-workers,” Shamansky said after the hearing. “Something isn’t right for this person to come forward after 10 years.”

GUILTY PLEA Jan 25, 2008 - Crary pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual assault by a school employee. He will be sentenced April 3. The Wisconsin prosecutor plans to recommend probation. Crary resigned from Worthington last week.

See Ex-coach guilty in Wisconsin, by Jennifer Smith Richards, part of the ABCs of Betrayal series in the Columbus Dispatch. Don't miss the Statement from Worthington Christian.

As we have reported, in 2002, then Superintendent Taylor Smith received information from the school in Wisconsin where Mr. Crary had been employed until 1999 which was reviewed with Mr. Crary, and a parent of the Wisconsin student involved. Nothing in those reports and Taylor Smith’s investigation indicated to him that any criminal action or inappropriate contact occurred between Mr. Crary and a student. No charges were filed against Mr. Crary in 2002, lending credence to Mr. Smith’s conclusion. Indeed, no charges were filed until October 19, 2007, three days before his arrest on October 22, 2007.

The charges to which Mr. Crary pled guilty today are substantially different from what Taylor Smith recalls being discussed in 2002.

Scroll to the bottom of the ABC's Betrayal series page for follow ups to stories in the series.

There is also an online video (53 min) of the Dispatch editor and reporters addressing the Metropolitan Club about the series and the difficulties of obtaining information that should be public information. The series resulted in a almost-instantaneous reaction in the Legislature to reform the system. TT - Links to the stories.

SENTENCED April 4 - Crary was sentenced Thursday to up to 14 months in prison and five years probation. Circuit Judge Jeffrey A. Wagner also sentenced Crary to four years in prison on each of three other counts, but stayed the sentence for five years probation, which will be transferred to Ohio when Crary completes his prison term. And sex offender registration.

Court record events. Milwaukee County Case Number 2007CF005140

Langhorne, PENNSYLVANIA

He stalked the girl since middle school when he was a student teacher.

Feb 16, 2008 - James Minetola II, 27, a student-teacher convicted of stalking a teenager in 2005 and then following her to college, will be going to prison.

Initially sentenced to probation, will now serve a one- to five-year state prison sentence for stalking the now 20-year-old woman since she was in ninth grade.

Minetola of Northampton was re-arrested in December after showing up at Bloomsburg University in Columbia County, and asking about the victim, police said. He allegedly tracked her to the college by searching the Internet.

At Bloomsburg, Minetola allegedly told the victim's sorority sisters that he was seeking her out because she was in some of his classes and he wanted her to tutor him. The girls thought he was “strange,” police said, and ignored him.

Unbeknownst to Minetola, the girl had transferred to another school before he arrived.Officials found out about his trip to Bloomsburg, and his probation was revoked.

In revoking the probation and sentencing him, Bucks County Judge Mitchell Goldberg said that he also took into consideration reports that Minetola's mental health issues were not properly treated while he was on probation.

TT - This is the same judge who originally sentenced him to probation who didn't think this was worthy of mandated mental treatment.

Minetola will stand trial in March for the college visit. The new charges could mean 14 years.
Full Name: James Albert Minetola II

SENTENCED TO PROBATION (AGAIN) April 4, 2008 - Minetola pleaded guilty Thursday to stalking charges. He told the now 20-year-old woman and her parents that his mental illness is under control and promised to stay away from her. Bucks County Judge Mitchell Goldberg [Yes, the exact same judge.] sentenced Minetola to an additional seven years of probation Thursday.

The sentence, which was the result of a plea bargain, means that Minetola will be under court supervision for up to 12 years and can be sent back to jail for violating probation. Conditions of the sentence are that he have no contact with the victim and remain in mental health treatment.

Brighton, COLORADO

April 3, 2008 - Andrew Weaver, 28, a Brighton High School teacher, was arrested on suspicion of a felony count of Internet sexual exploitation of a child, for allegedly sending pictures of his genitalia and engaging in sexually explicit conversation with a law enforcement official posing online as a 14-year-old girl. It turned out to be an undercover officer.

Investigators on May 2, 2007, filed a court order to link Weaver to the Yahoo chat name eightball_79. Weaver’s facial features on his driver’s license were matched to video sent over the Internet. During the chat, eightball_79 identified himself as Andy from Denver, the affidavit said.

Weaver is married and has a six-month-old child. He has been teaching for the past five years. Weaver had been fired from his position. He will be formally charged April 16.
Full Name: Andrew Charles Weaver

April 7 - The Brighton Standard Blade wonders why it took nine months to bring charges. The incident, they say, according to the affidavit, occurred on March 8, 2007, yet no warrant was issued until December 19, 2007, nearly nine months later.

However, Mesa County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Heather Benjamin noted that the office had no knowledge of Weaver’s employment status prior to his court appearance April 3, at which time they contacted Brighton High School officials.

April 9 - Denver Post: Coach continued teaching after he was caught in a sex sting

TT - Aren't teachers required by law to report any arrest to school officials? If not, why not?

Tonawanda, NEW YORK

School asks police with help with one of their teachers. Arrested after car chase.

April 3, 2008 - Walter J. Dudek, 44, a Tonawanda Middle School teacher was arrested Thursday after leading police on a short chase.

Investigators say they received a phone call just before noon Thursday from school officials asking them to assist them with one of their teachers.

When the officer arrived, the teacher,(Dudek) had left the building in his vehicle.A police captain in the area spotted the vehicle and tried to pull Dudek over, but Dudek refused to pull over. Police were eventually able to box him in and take him into custody.

Police say Dudek was driving with a suspended license and under the influence of some type of drug.Police charged Dudek with: Aggravated unlicensed operation, driving while ability impaired by drugs, unlawful possession of marijuana, speeding, failure to stop at a stop sign, failure to keep right, and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

April 4 - From the Tonawanda News: An assistant principal at the middle school called police shortly before noon because seventh-grade science teacher Walter J. Dudek, 44, a 10-year employee of the Tonawanda City School District, “was not acting right."

Dudek tested zero for alcohol.

April 4 - "TONAWANDA SCHOOLS: District suspected teacher had drug problem"
They left him in the classroom for a month after children to whom he taught science began to notice irregularities. Stumbling, slurred speech, even falling asleep during class.

Santa Ana, CALIFORNIA

It was an incredibly stupid negligent thing to do.
Luckily, no children were hurt. But counseling for teachers????!!! Give us a break!

April 3, 2008 - Jayne DeArmond , a 3rd grade teacher at Diamond Elementary School, was arrested after a 3rd grader found her unloaded handgun and ammunition in a classroom supply closet drawer. An 8-year-old student found the .38 caliber handgun.

The student told an adult, and the third grade classroom was cleared out immediately. Police arrived within minutes and arrested her for investigation of possession of a firearm on a school campus and misdemeanor child endangerment

She "no longer works at the school."

This struck as as overreaction: Counseling has been made available to students and staff, according to a Santa Ana Unified School District spokeswoman.
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Santa Ana Police Department has no press release at this time.
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NOT GUILTY PLEA April 30 - DeArmond pleaded not guilty and was released on her own recognizance. Her next court appearance is June 6.

Houston, TEXAS

Dec 17, 2007 - Carlos Valencia, 42, a substitute teacher at Westfield High School, was arrested after being accused of improper relationship with an 18-year-old female student.

The administration was notified anonymously by a student on Nov. 26 of an improper student/teacher relationship. The notification was made through AnComm, an anonymous communication system, which the school encourages students to use when they have concerns.

Valencia, was suspended on November 27 while the district began a full investigation and his employment with the district has since been terminated.
Full Name: Carlos Hector Valencia

Probable Cause document PDF

Jan 8, 2008 - Valencia is scheduled to be arraigned on Jan. 16. (Found in a story about the arrest of Shannon Kay Hrozek, another Westfield High School teacher. TT - LINK for Hrozek)

PLEA April 3 - Valencia agreed to a plea bargain with prosecutors to serve five years' deferred adjudication.

[TT - Deferred adjudication defined: Deferred adjudication is a plea bargain agreement between a defendant, and a Texas Criminal Court in which formal judgment is withheld or "deferred" pending the outcome of the probation period. If an individual is given deferred adjudication and he or she successfully completes the probation and conditions assigned by the court, the charges are dismissed. Also see: Deferred Adjudication article at the Texas Bar Journal.]

Benton, KENTUCKY

Plea deal calls for registration as sex offender for 20 years.

ARREST reported Oct 16, 2007 -Michael Colvett, 37, a band director at Marshall County High School, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor unlawful transaction with a minor.
The parents of a 16-year-old told school officials they suspected an inappropriate relationship with their daughter. Colvett remains employed by the school.
Full Name: Michael F. Colvett

KFVS Ch 12:

According to a criminal complaint, the parents of the 16-year-old girl first found out about an inappropriate relationship between their daughter and Colvett back in February. After that, the girl's parents and school officials warned Mr. Colvett to only have contact with her for school matters. Police say he broke that warning.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl's father found recent personal text messges, emails and records of late night phone calls between the band director and his daughter. The teen later claimed she had a sexual encounter with Colvett.

According to KFVS,

Colvett is getting support from students and alumni. According to a former student, she and several current students planned to try and raise the money for Colvett's bail, if he couldn't make it. But Colvett did post $2500 bail and was released.

Some of his former students have started a Web site in support of the band teacher. Dozens have signed up on a Facebook page called "Supports the Colvett's."

NOT GUILTY PLEA Nov 9 - Colvett pleaded not guilty. Sex between a teacher and a student at least 16 years old is not a crime in Kentucky, but it is illegal to encourage a girl to disobey her parents. The unlawful transaction charge stems from what investigators believe was a sexual relationship between Colvett and the girl.

INDICTED Dec 18 - A grand jury indicted Colvett on charges of rape, tampering with physical evidence, sexual abuse and unlawful transaction with a minor. He's in jail on $25,000 dollars cash bond. A state lawmaker wants to make it illegal for a teacher or anyone else in a position of trust to have consensual sex with someone under 18.

NOT GUILTY PLEA Jan 8, 2008 - Colvett pleaded not guilty. Another court date has been set for April 1.

PLEA DEAL April 2 - Colvett reached a plea deal that allows him to enter an Alford Plea (no contest). He pleaded to a felony count of tampering with evidence and two misdemeanor counts of second-degree sexual abuse. Prosecutors dropped rape and unlawful transaction charges as part of the agreement. Colvett also has to give up his teaching license and to register as a sex offender for 20 years. No sentencing date given.

New Albany, INDIANA

April 3, 2008 - Mark Yarmey, 52, a New Albany Prosser School of Technology teacher, was arrested and charged with use of a minor in a sexual performance and first-degree sodomy based on events that allegedly took place nine years ago.

The police report on his arrest said he took “partial nude photos” of an 11-year-old girl. The report said the girl’s mother was present while the photos were taken.

When the mother left, the report said, Yarmey “forcefully” made the victim perform oral sex on him.The report said Yarmey also scanned two of the photos he had taken onto a computer.

"The victim in this case came forward some time ago and reported the tragic incident that had occurred to her," said Metro Police Detective Phil Russell. "The suspect in this case took nude photos of her [and] forced her to engage in oral sex while she was still a minor.

TT - The investigation and arrest were made in Louisville, Kentucky.

NOT GUILTY PLEA April 5 - Yarmey pleaded not guilty at his arraignment hearing on Friday. His lawyer asked the judge to lower Yarmey’s bond, which is set at $35,000 cash. He said that Yarmey had no criminal record, but the judge said while she appreciated his argument, the bond remains.

NA-FC school officials are not commenting on Friday’s arraignment, but at a press conference Thursday, Bill Briscoe, assistant to the superintendent for administration and operations, said the school corporation is starting an internal investigation and is working with police.

No explanation for the internal investigation.

Yarmey’s next hearing is set for April 14.

May's Landing, NEW JERSEY

April 3, 2008 - Joseph Mauro, 30, a St. Joseph High School math teacher, was arrested and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, "meaning an act of sexual penetration was committed."

State Superior Court Judge Michael Donio set Mauro's bail at $150,000 cash.

The charges arise from allegations that Mauro, while employed at St. Joseph, inappropriately touched a student in January. Mauro was fired from St. Joseph on Feb. 7.
Full Name: Joseph W. Mauro
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From Atlantic County Officer of the Prosecutor: "The Criminal Justice System Process - An Overview: How The System Works"

Edinburg, TEXAS

April 2, 2008 - Crescencio Zuniga, a teacher at Betty Harwell Middle School, has been accused of touching several students inappropriately. However, authorities say all they can charge him with 5 counts of class c misdemeanor assault. The charges carry only a fine.

[News reporter babe at video report says "The charges are not serious."]

Zuniga has been suspended from the district since the original accusations surfaced in December, and has since submitted his resignation.

[TT - No other details. No other online stories. No online Edinburg Police report. Whenever there is a one-source story where "counseling" costs appear to be a major consideration, we are leery.]

Elk Garden, WEST VIRGINIA

Another in-car "counseling" arrest.

April 3, 2008 - Sarah Guthrie, 23, a teacher at Elk Garden School, was arrested in a car with a 17-year-old female student. Guthrie and the underage girl were parked in a wooded area in a spot that has been the subject of numerous past complaints for drug activity.

Officers said they observed alcohol in the vehicle. A subsequent search revealed more alcohol and suspected marijuana on both the suspects. They were taken into custody for drug and alcohol-related offenses, in addition to giving false information to the officers.

The girl was released to her parents.

La Belle, FLORIDA

April 3, 2008 - Derrick Sepp, 32, a LaBelle Middle School teacher, was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a 12-year-old boy he met on MySpace. He used the screen name "Meet New People."

Sepp met the boy at a movie theatre where police said Sepp kissed the boy and reached inside his pants. The report said the boy also fondled Sepp. The boy later told his mother who contacted police. At the second arranged meeting, the boy was accompanied by seven undercover agents who arrested Sepp.

Sepp was hired in August. He recently moved to Florida from Washington state.
Full Name: Derrick Richard Sepp

June 25 - WINK News has more details on the Sepp case.

The 12-year-old says the two exchanged messages back and forth. The young boy claims he sent nude pictures of himself to Sepp. According to documents obtained by WINK News Sepp asked the boy to hold up four fingers so Sepp would know they were pictures of him.

The two agreed to meet at a Polk County movie theater. The 12-year-old says that's where Sepp kissed and fondled him.The victim's sister tells police she saw her brother was contacting Sepp through the internet and confronted him about it.

Police then searched Sepp's Fort Myers home and they say they discovered several hand written letters about other males Sepp was observing as well as articles on age of consent and rape. A pre-trial conference is scheduled for July 22.

Jacksonville, ARKANSAS

We're experts.


HILBUN SENTENCED Sept 14, 2007 - Amy Hilbun, 25, a Jacksonville Elementary School teacher, was sentenced to three years in prison after a jury found her guilty of two counts of second degree battery for abusing her six-year-old son.


ACCUSED: Also arrested and charged with abuse of the boy was another teacher at the school, Stephen Rose, 35. He is also charged with felony battery and is scheduled for an Oct 9 jury trial.

ROSE CONVICTED- March 12, 2008 - Rose was convicted of second degree battery for grabbing the six-year-old boy by the jaw and striking him in the chest.

Rose, who is over six feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds, cried profusely during his testimony.

The victim, now seven years old, was barely able to reach the microphone as he delivered a 20-minute account of the abuse, never faltering except for a slight lip quiver near the end.“He punched me and he poked me and he hit me with the belt,” the victim said.

The punishment was because the boy didn't finish his food on time.

Photographs in evidence showed a fist-sized bruise on the boy’s chest, four thumb-sized bruises on the left side of his jaw and neck and a fingertip-sized bruise on his upper right chest. Rose is left handed. Testimony revealed he also had numerous bruises on his body caused by his mother, Amy Hilbun, hitting him with a “cat stick.”

Rose characterized himself as a “behavior modification expert” who has had “extensive training in anger management. He will be sentenced April 2.

ROSE SENTENCED to Jail - not prison - April 3 - White County Circuit Judge Robert Edwards sentenced Rose to four months in the White County Detention Center, gave him five years probation and ordered him to pay a $2,500 fine.

Rose's past arrests for violent behavior were revealed during the sentencing. On Oct. 29, 1995, Rose was arrested in Hot Springs for second degree battery. On May 30, 1996, Rose was arrested for criminal mischief. On Aug. 9, 2001, Rose was arrested in Garland County for domestic battery. None of those three cases were prosecuted.

Carroll, IOWA

Sentenced to ten years in prison.

Feb 13, 2008 - Robert Rogers, 61, a Carroll Middle School teacher, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a male student.

He pleaded to one count third-degree sexual abuse and one count of sexual exploitation by a school employee. Under the plea agreement, two other counts of third-degree sexual abuse have were dropped. He was accused of molesting the male student numerous times from January 2006 to June 2007.

In questioning by Judge Swanson, Rogers said he performed oral sex on a 14- or 15-year-old male student at least 10 times from January 2006 to June 2007. The number of sex acts had to be specified for the court to determine that Rogers had engaged in a "pattern or practice or scheme" of sexual conduct as defined by Iowa law with regard to the charge of sexual exploitation by a school employee.

Rogers taught language arts at Carroll Middle School for 37 years. He will be sentenced Mar 21.
Full Name: Robert Dale Rogers aka Bob Rogers

SENTENCED April 2, 2008 - Rogers was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In return for his plea, two two other third-degree sexual abuse charges were dropped.

Clarification of sentence: Rogers was sentenced to to concurrent state-prison terms of 10 years for third-degree sexual abuse and five years for sexual exploitation by a school employee.

LAWSUIT August 27 - Federal and civil lawsuits against the Carroll Community School District over a teacher sexual abuse case have been settled for $115,000. The lawsuits claimed that the district knew of Robert Rogers' inappropriate behavior but failed to warn the boy and his family or authorities.

South Bend, INDIANA

SENTENCE OVERTURNED, then reinstated by flip flop judge.

Jan 2, 2007 - Timothy Wyllie, a Walt Disney Elementary School teacher, charged with molesting a 9-year-old girl, wants a new trial

In a plea agreement, he was sentenced to 30 years for molesting a student. He is also serving an 8-year sentence in federal prison for distributing child pornography. The sentences are to run concurrently. That's the part he doesn't want. "As part of his plea agreement, Wyllie claims the judge should have considered allowing him to serve both sentences at the same time. He also says his lawyers misadvised him during his plea hearing."

Apparently, Wyllie is also an attorney, which makes his claim somewhat, er, lawyerly .

LAWSUIT Found in cache at Topix.net that the girl who confronted him at his sentencing got a $2.9 million settlement from the school district. Wyllie is "now serving a 30-year prison term."

Charles Rice, her attorney, called the settlement a "vindication," as the corporation initially had raised a "contributory negligence" defense, alleging that the then 9-year-old played a role in allowing her molestation.

Behind locked, windowless doors in art and storage rooms, on at least 100 occasions, Wyllie made the girl undress, molested her and took photos -- images he ended up posting on the Internet in retaliation for her decision, two years after the abuse, to tell her parents and police.

Because the girl is a minor, Probate Judge Peter Nemeth must oversee how the money is spent until she turns at least 18. I

In such cases, Nemeth said he tends to preserve as much money as possible for the child's future college expenses, but the child's guardians can ask him for permission to spend the money on other things that might benefit her, such as orthodontic work, clothing, computers and housing.

Rice's firm, Boveri Murphy Rice & LaDue, will receive $966,666 in attorney fees. That, in addition to about $92,000 in litigation expenses, will reduce the girl's proceeds to about $1.8 million.

SENTENCE OVERTURNED Feb 7, 2008 - Judge Roland Chamblee Jr. overturned the sentence. The judge, according to the article, says that Timothy Wyllie was "misled by circumstance" into agreeing to the plea agreement that resulted in a 30 year sentence. The judge says Wyllie thought the sentence would be served at the same time as an eight year federal sentence on child pornography charges. The prosecutor says he'll ask the judge to reconsider his decision. The victim is willing to testify again.

SENTENCED REINSTATED April 2, 2008 - judge who previously overturned the conviction of a teacher who pleaded guilty to child molesting ruled today that the conviction and sentence will now stand.

But today, [St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Roland W.] Chamblee [,Jr.] granted the state's "motion to correct errors" in the case, a document arguing that case law precedent required the judge to uphold the plea agreement.

The state argued in the motion that Wyllie's guilty plea was given voluntarily, and that the plea and sentence should stand. Chamblee granted the order Wednesday, so the guilty plea, conviction and sentence stand, the prosecutor's office said.

Springfield, MISSOURI

Guilty of 10 counts of possession of child pornography. Sentenced to probation!!!

Police found 225,628 images on his computer.

Elected teacher's union president. Told the investigator he had looked at that type of pornography since he was a teenager.

ARRAIGNED June 8, 2007 -
Gary E. Rademacher, 53, a recently-retired teacher at t Jarrett Middle School and a Boy Scout leader, was arraigned on 10 counts of possessing child pornography.

A forensic examination of the computer found a total of 225,628 image files and 520 movie files. Almost all depicted young boys or young men engaged in sexual contact, sexual activity, or anal sexual intercourse (sodomy. The suspected child pornograph featuring boys younger than 14 years old included 1,346 image files and 12 movies.

He allegedly told the investigator he had looked at that type of pornography since he was a teenager.

ELECTED PRESIDENT OF TEACHERS UNION June 8 - Springfield News-Leader: Rademacher had been elected to serve as president of the Missouri State Teachers Association for the 2007-2008 school year, but resigned from the post after the investigation began in January. He also served as a board member and vice president of the union.

Rademacher had collected child pornography since he was a teenager. He worked at five Springfield elementary schools and four middle schools during his three decade career with the district.

Oct 4, 2007 - Ky3 - (Using the same picture that is used at his sentencing story.) He also is a former vice president and president-elect of the Missouri State Teachers Association, a statewide group that represents teachers, including many in the Springfield School District. He resigned from the president-elect position this winter. Detective, Cpl. David Stone, says he found 225,628 photos and 520 movies that show children, all except one being boys, “engaged in sexual contact, sexual activity, or anal sexual intercourse (sodomy).”

GUILTY PLEA AND OUTRAGEOUS SENTENCE April 2, 2008 - KY3: Rademacher pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 10 counts of possession of child pornography. Greene County Circuit Judge Tom Mountjoy immediately sentenced Gary Rademacher to five years of probation, with multiple conditions.

The conditions include Rademacher must be in a treatment program, have no contact with anyone under 17 years old unless approved by a judge, and cannot own a computer or have access to the internet unless approved by a judge. [TT - No mention of his union past in this story or the following stories.]

WSPR: (Apr 2) Prosecutors said they think the punishment was appropriate because they had determined none of the children depicted in the images were from the area. They claim: Police found more than 1,300 images of child pornography on Rademacher's computer.

News-Leader: (March 22) - Rademacher was a teacher at Jarrett Middle School and a Boy Scout leader for Troop 31.

Child Pornography and Educators
TT - List sentenced for child pornography.
TT - List guilty but not yet sentenced for child pornography.

Ghost teachers and phantom students

Corruption thrives in a media blackout.

April 2, 2008 - A three-judge panel ordered U.S. District Judge John P. Fullam to re-sentence Faridah Ali and her daughter, Lakiha Spicer, both of whom were sentenced in a "ghost teacher" scam of an adult-literacy program in West Philadelphia in 2004.

Faridah Ali was sentenced to 5 years' probation and HOUSE ARREST in 2005 and was ordered to pay $30,000 in restitution and a $2,300 fine. Ali had paid a mere $13,000 in restitution.

Yesterday she was sentenced to one year and a day in Federal prison and ordered to make restitution of $120,000 to $200,000 to Community College of Philadelphia.

The money was to be used for rent and salaries for teachers in an adult-literacy program at the now-closed Sister Clara Muhammad School at 47th Street and Wyalusing Avenue, where Ali was once assistant director.

Instead, a jury in a 2004 trial found, in its 23-count conviction on fraud and related offenses, that Ali pocketed the money and paid teachers, including her daughter and son, for nonexistent classes.

In 2003, the FBI was conducting a drug investigation when Ali's husband, Shamsud-din Ali, was overheard telling a drug dealer to take $5,000 to City Hall. The public corruption probe led to the "ghost teacher" scam and widespread investigation of City Hall.

More than 50 defendants - from the city treasurer to drug dealers and both Alis - were convicted in related offenses. The Alis were convicted of racketeering involving eight illegal money-making schemes, including the Community College fraud, in 2005.

Prosecutors appealed the lenient sentence, which led to the re-sentencing today. Ali's 68-year-old husband - Shamsud-din Ali - is at the federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, serving a seven-year term, with a tentative release date of December 2013. The former mayor was never accused of wrongdoing but two dozen others, including former City Treasurer Corey Kemp, were sent to prison on corruption-related charges.

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2004 - Investigative Report from U.S. Dept. of Justice
See items 5 and 6
June 2004 Dept. of Justice Press Release on indictments for 12

August 2004 - For informative background information on the defendants, don't miss this read from the Philadelphia Independent.

Shamsud-din Ali. Ali was once known as Clarence Fowler, a black mafia leader who was convicted and sent to prison during the 1970s for the murder of a Baptist preacher that was later overturned.

He is married to a woman, Faridah Ali a.k.a. Rita Spicer, whose taste in men has tended toward those of a narcotics-dealing inclination; her ex-husband was a convicted coke dealer, her son was an alleged coke dealer and she, naturally, had been an FBI informant, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. Fowler [aka Shamsud-din Ali] was also a big supporter of Mayor John Street's and an influential community leader. Eventually the feds obtained a warrant to tap the imam's phone.

Aside from the mosque, he had three main businesses: a collection agency, an adult education school and a we'll-be-your-minority-partner-so-you-can-get-city-contracts firm that collected taxpayer dollars but didn't really do anything. The school took in money for a community college that gave diplomas but didn't always hold classes.

Graduation Rate Campaign

Seventeen of the nation’s 50 largest cities had a graduation rate lower than 50 percent in the principal (largest) school district serving the city.

Those with the lowest graduation rates included Detroit City School District (24.9 percent), Indianapolis Public Schools (30.5 percent), Cleveland Municipal City School District (34.1 percent), Baltimore City Public School System (34.6 percent) and Columbus Public Schools (40.9 percent).

April 1, 2008 - That is just one of the findings included in a report by America's Promise Alliance. They are launching a National Campaign to Combat Nation's High School Dropout and College-Readiness Crisis. Press Release
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TT - This is a Colin and Alma Powell foundation with a lot of big money donors and partners and a lot of publicity.

Dropout or graduation rates are the new crisis in education. Mind you, no one at this point can actually calculate dropout rates because there is no citywide or statewide ability to track students from K to 12 in any state or in any major urban area, let alone nationwide. Districts and states do not track students who move out of state or track the mobile populations in large cities where families are likely to move from district to district, from public to private - charter or parochial schools - and back again. Neither states, districts or researchers, for example, are able to document illegal alien student populations who are likely to move frequently and who do not always re-enroll under the same name.

And, too, phony enrollment figures have been a problem in education where phantom students have inflated enrollment for decades. Each state has their own formula for calculating graduation rates.

If there is a problem with school graduation and dropout rates, it is, as yet, unquantifiable. But until the mechanisms are in place to quantify the problem, any solution or organized campaign to raise millions and millions is premature and wasteful. And self-serving.

A cynic might suggest that raising money for the solution to a problem that proves to be wildly exaggerated that will allow special interests to claim credit for solving a problem that isn't, is a huge waste of money and resources. A suspicious soul might suspect fraud; a generous one might think naivete.

A statistician could probably look at population projections and guess that urban schools are in for a major decline in student numbers in the coming decades, and we can only guess that the educational bureaucracy establishment isn't ready to relinquish the trillions of dollars they now take from the economy.

Some of the cities listed as having the lowest graduation are also cities who have declining populations as people race to the exits. Virtually every city on that list except Columbus has that problem. Cleveland is a sinking ship. See figures for Baltimore and Detroit. (Indianapolis population has increased slightly apparently due to annexation.) What most of these cities have in common are significant minority populations and it appears that a rising minority middle class simply doesn't want to live in ghetto cities anymore.

April 11 - Morton Kondrake in article on education revealed that his wife was president of America's Promise Alliance.

San Jose, CALIFORNIA

It must have been a memoral football team that year.

April 1, 2008 - A former assistant football coach at Bellarmine College Preparatory School was arrested as a suspect in connection with a murder in Los Gatos.

Esequiel “Paul” Garcia, 29, was arrested, along with three other men. All three face faces charges of murder and conspiracy in the death of Mark Achilli who was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds outside his Los Gatos home.

KCBS’s Matt Bigler reports Bellarmine officials refused to comment on Garcia’s dismissal other than to distance themselves by noting the 29-year-old was a contract employee and not a full faculty member. Garcia graduated from Bellarmine in 1996, and was an assistant football coach there.

Pittsburgh, PENNYSLVANIA

Couple arrested for dynamite, marijuana plants, rifles, handguns and bomb-making equipment. Makes you wonder what their hobby was.

April 1, 2008 - Nicholas Borrelli, 62, a Bishop Canevin High School math teacher, and his wife Linda, 45, were both arrested after a medical emergency alert brought authorities to their house where they found marijuana, bomb-making equipment, weapons and dynamite.

Munhall police say it took them from Friday afternoon until 2 a.m. Saturday to remove dozens of boxes of rifles, handguns and bomb-making equipment from the couple's home. The Allegheny County bomb squad helped remove the dynamite and other bomb-related materials.

The couple was charged with risking a catastrophe, possession with intent to deliver drugs and possession of weapons of mass destruction after their arrest Friday, according to Munhall police Chief Patrick Campbell.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (March 30) describes the scene:

After entering the building, officers noticed "an overwhelming odor of marijuana," states the affidavit of probable cause filed to support criminal charges. Upon searching further, officers discovered "hanging dried marijuana, potted marijuana plants, along with paraphernalia throughout" the house . . .

After obtaining a search warrant, officers found "various improvised explosive devices (several thousand), materials needed in making improvised explosive devices, suspected marijuana, materials needed in growing marijuana, marijuana plants in pots, scales, several firearms (long guns and handguns), ammunitions," the affidavit states.

SEARCH April 4 - Fire and Hazmat crews searched Borrelli's cabinet at school and found chemicals, the sort typically found a high school chemistry lab, but Borrelli taught math and should not have had them.

PRELIMINARY June 18 - A judge ordered there was sufficient evidence for Borrelli and his wife to stand trial in August. (See video at right of the story.)

FAKE FAKE FAKE

Remember that "Teach me to Trade" infomercial with Linda Woolfe, the teacher who claimed she made millions? She did, but not in trading.

April 1, 2008 - The SEC filed civil fraud charges against two promoters who illegally made millions selling a get-rich-quick stock trading system they touted on TV and at investor workshops at hotels in dozens of cities nationwide. Linda Woolf, 48, and David Gengler,53, both of Utah, duped seniors and others who had attended free introductory seminars into believing they would make extraordinary stock market profits if they bought expensive "Teach Me to Trade" (TMTT) classes, mentoring, and computer software.

In one infomercial, for example, Woolf told how she used to be an elementary school teacher and was able to replace her entire income after attending TMTT workshops. "I had no idea it was that easy to learn how to make money in the stock market," Woolf said. In another infomercial, Gengler claimed, "If you can simply follow steps and follow our principles, you'll make money. It's that simple."

They did make millions - in commissions. Woolf made $4 million in commissions from selling TMTT packages. She never made a profit on any trades.

For the 12 months ending Dec. 31, 2006, the complaint says, the company received $112.6 million in cash from sales of its securities workshops.

TT - No one seems to know if she was a teacher or not. For now, she's a Fake Trashy Teacher.

Tacoma, WASHINGTON

Guilty plea, ordered to take psychological evaluation, but not necessarily grounds for dismissal.

Nov 16, 2007 - Steven Weidenbach, 27, a Fife High School teacher, pleaded not guilty to seven misdemeanor counts based on text messages and phone calls prosecutors say he sent to two current and three former Fife High students, all females.

He is charged with two counts of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and five counts of telephone harassment.

He was arrested in October after parents of one student complained to a school resource officer that their daughter had received inappropriate text messages from a teacher.. He's on administrative leave. The teacher told authorities his messages were misinterpreted and he never meant them to be sexual. Weidenbach is married and has one child.

The News Tribune obtained Fife police’s investigative report on Weidenbach through a public records request. The accusations are included in the story. Sample:

17-year-old current student said Weidenbach asked her in a text message who she would take to a desert island if stranded. She replied she would take her best friend, a female. He text-messaged back asking if she wanted to stay celibate. He also asked her what was the “most scandalous” thing she had ever done.

A pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Jan. 29.

PLEA & SENTENCING Apr 1 - Weidenbach pleaded guilty to sending sexually suggestive text messages to a former student. Six other charges against business teacher Steven Weidenbach were dropped in a plea agreement. He did not admit guilt, and entered the plea because he believed a jury would find him guilty, court records say. [TT - that would be a no contest or nolo contendere plea.]

Weidenbach received a two-year deferred sentence and must undergo a psychological evaluation. If he is not found guilty of a crime in the next two years, his conviction will be dismissed.

Jeff Short, deputy superintendent for the Fife School District, said Weidenbach will remain on paid administrative leave while the district completes its own investigation. He said Weidenbach’s guilty plea is “not necessarily” grounds for dismissal, since he pleaded guilty only to harassing a former student.

The former student said Weidenbach asked her who she’d slept with, what teacher she would want to spend time with and what the “most scandalous” thing she’d ever done was. The former student said Weidenbach, who lived near her, also said, “Too bad they put the fence up in your backyard, can’t see you in the hot tub anymore,” police records say.

She said she never felt threatened by the comments, “maybe just a little weirded out,” police records say.

RESIGNATION October 28 - The Fife School Board voted unanimously to accept the resignation of business teacher Steven Weidenbach Monday night. The school board accepted the resignation after the Fife School District completed its own investigation of accusations against Weidenbach. Fife pleaded guilty in March.

Weidenbach’s resignation is effective at the end of the current semester, Jan. 23, 2009. He has been on paid administrative leave since he was arrested Oct. 5, 2007.

Violating Probation or Parole

Sex offenders often violate their probation and are sentenced to jail or are sent back to prison. These are just the latest teachers in trouble for violating the terms and conditions of their parole or supervised release.

April 1 - Carrie McCandless was returned to jail for 30 days for violation of her parole. She is still married to the school principal, but her probation officer found her in bed while visiting another parolee. Such encounters are forbidden without permission under intensive supervision. She is a registered sex offender. TT entry for McCandless

April 1 - Holly Spreen [non-sex offender] was sentenced to 27 days in jail after being arrested for drunk driving after being placed on probation for prior drunk driving arrests. TT entry for Spreen

March 31 - A judge determined that Matthew Glasser was in violation of his parole for not deleting his e-mail and MySpace accounts. Instead, he transferred them to his father's name. He also failed to find adequate housing. He will be sentenced June 3. He remains in jail until then. Glasser is also a registered sex offender. TT entry for Glasser

March 17 - Sentenced in September 2007 to five years' probation for sex with a 14-year-old girl, Dustin Powers, was declared a Tier 3 Sex Offender. He was arrested after violating his parole in having sexual contact with the same girl, now 15. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison for violating his probation. He has now been indicted on three charges. (Tier 3 Sex Offenders are the most likely to reoffend, which probably makes you wonder, like it did us, how a judge would sentence him to probation in the first place.) TT entry for Powers

Feb 26 - Lauren Palmer sentenced August 2007 to two years' probation for -- as the judge termed it, for thing that appears to be a relatively minor, isolated incident - having inappropriate sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl. Arrested for violation of parole Feb 26. TT entry for Palmer

Dec 4, 2007 - Debra LaFave was arrested for parole violation. At a January hearing, Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett determined Lafave violated terms of her house arrest by having private conversations with a 17-year-old girl but the violation was not "willful." Lafave, therefore, was not punished for the violation. Tt entry for LaFave
Interestingly, this year alone, five Tampa, FL teachers have been arrested or sentenced for sex with students. Two others have resigned or been suspended for inappropriate behavior.

What being a registered sex offender means in Minnesota.

Newport, KENTUCKY

Nov 10, 2006 - Long-time Newport school board member Jim Hesch, 47, and his wife, Helen, 47, an English teacher at Newport Middle School, were arrested on charges of third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor as part of an on-going investigation into the use of drugs in their Grandview home.

Previously, Brandon Hall, a teacher at Newport Middle School was arrested after being videotaped smoking marijuana with students who were seen partying at the Hesch home. In addition, Bonnie M. Cioffi, 34, and her son were arrested in connection with the case. How it relates to the case is not known at this time.

HALL SENTENCED - May 30, 2007 - Hall was sentenced May 30 to three years' probation, drug and alcohol tests and participate in any recommended counseling. TT entry for Hall.

UPDATE Feb 22, 2007 - As the Cincinnati Enquirer notes, the Hesch trials are continuing. Meanwhile, she is still suspended with pay. He still serves on the school board.
[TT entry for Brandon Hall.]

PLEA AGREEMENT Feb 27 - The Hesches reached a plea agreement so that successfully complete a diversion program, they can have charges of drug paraphernalia possession and unlawful transaction with minors dropped.

The couple will also have to successfully complete 100 hours of community service, including speaking at schools and avoiding teen alcohol use and telling parents about their story and how to avoid the same scenarios.
[TT - Our view is that they should never be allowed inside a school again, let alone lecturing teenagers and parents.]

As part of the plea agreement, Mr. Hesch will have to resign from the school board by July 1 and Mrs. Hesch will have to quit her job immediately. If all of these stipulations are met, the charges will be dismissed in a year.

CHARGES DISMISSED April 1, 2008 - Campbell County’s Judge Gregory Popovich dismissed the case against Jim and Helen Hesch, a Newport School Board member and middle school teacher, because they complied with orders to complete a diversion program.

As a result of the publicity, Jim Hesch had to resign his position as Newport School board member and Helen Hesch had to resign her position as a Newport Middle School teacher.

There was no stipulation that the judge made Monday, Blau said, that the two cannot teach or be involved with another school system.

Newark, ARKANSAS

April 1, 2008 - Donna Beene-Walker, 40, a teacher at Cedar Ridge School District , was arrested after a traffic stop when police learned she had an outstanding warrant for assault in the third degree and disorderly conduct, both class C misdemeanors.

The charges stem from allegations that on or about March 14 Walker approached a male juvenile as he was getting into his vehicle at the Melbourne Baseball Complex and made derogatory comments about his ability to play ball and stated that he was a disgrace to his team. It is further alleged that Walker spit into his face.

While conducting a search of the vehicle, Baker discovered a white crystal type substance that field tested to be methamphetamine along with snorting devices. The residue inside the devices also field tested positive for meth.Walker was administered a drug test and she tested positive for meth. She also admitted to using the drug, according to Sheriff Tate Lawrence.

Walker has been charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to use.

Seabrook, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Arrested again, sentenced to jail again.

July 9, 2007 - Holly Spreen, 34, a special education teacher, was arrested for breach of bail and child endangerment. She was arrested after dropping and dragging her two-year-old son aboard a harbor cruise ship.

Her blood alcohol level was .49, six times the legal limit. Witnesses who saw her drop and drag the child reported their concerns to ship management who notified police.

Public record shows Spreen was arrested in Portsmouth on Dec. 18, 2005 for domestic assault and obstruction of the report of a crime. She was also charged with simple assault by Portsmouth Police on June 29, 2007.

Trial is set for August 14.

July 21 - Long, largely unsympathetic, article on Spreen's history of alcoholism which sparked this comment from a poster:

If the father in this case were the one drinking he would have lost all rights to see the kid by now. Instead, "Marital Master Harriet Fishman" chose to leave this child in harms way over and over again. How about someone do something about getting this "Marital Master" out of her position of responsiblility and authority and into one where her sexist views can't hurt an innocent child. Fire her outright is my position, but I know the bleeding hearts would never allow such a harsh action....

TT - What we wonder is, with all the frequent arrests and court appearances and hospitalizations, why a school district would not fire her outright? She's a special education teacher who works with the most vulnerable children.

GUILTY PLEA & SENTENCING Nov 5 - Spreen pleaded guilty to charges of reckless conduct and simple assault. In exchange for those pleas, Spreen was sentenced to two years in jail, with all but 30 days suspended pending two years of good behavior. She'll serve her sentence during summer vacation.

She told the judge she would be returning to school Nov 14.

Portsmouth Family Court records show Spreen’s former husband warned the court that he feared for their son’s safety “due to her alcoholism” as far back as February 2005, when the child was 3 months old. Just 13 days before her arrest, he warned the court she had been drunk in a car with their son before a police officer intervened.

Also documented in the family court is Spreen’s voluntary and involuntary alcohol treatment, hidden liquor bottles, hospitalization and court-ordered Breathalyzer tests related to visitation with her son, some taken on the job at the Seabrook school.
After her arrest, Spreen lost all custody of her son. That order is temporary.

The judge noted a letter of proof of Spreen’s enrollment in a Florida rehab program described her “prognosis” as “only fair.”

Jan 17, 2008 - Spreen is limited to visits with her son to one hour a week. She is on administrative leave for an indefinite period, following two months of time off under the Family Medical Leave Act.

Prosecutor Corey MacDonald told the Herald that Spreen’s deferred jail sentence will not likely be altered, in spite of her no longer working a school schedule. He agreed to it, he said, in an effort to assist Spreen with keeping her teaching job and therefore maintaining sobriety.

TT - Those lucky kids.

SENTENCED (AGAIN) April 1 - Spreen sentenced to 27 days in jail after a probation officer reported her Easter Sunday arrest for driving while intoxicated. She was arrested on March 23, when her blood alcohol content was recorded at .33 and she told an officer she drank a bottle of wine "throughout the day." At the time of her arrest, Spreen, a former Seabrook elementary school teacher, was court-ordered to abstain from all use of alcohol and to remain arrest-free. A hearing to review the case is scheduled for April 8

She since lost her Seabrook teaching job.

SENTENCED TO JAIL April 8 - Spreen was sentenced to 1 year in jail for violating her probation by getting arrested Easter Sunday for driving while intoxicated. She was also ordered to report to a probation officer for two years after her release. A one-year sentence for assaulting her husband was deferred for one year.

"The full 12 months is now imposed," Judge Sawako Gardner told Spreen after accepting the agreement.

Noting a condition of the deal gives Spreen the right to petition the court for time served after her completion of a jailhouse treatment program, the judge warned her that will be at the discretion of the court.

"I can tell you it is not a guarantee," said Gardner.

April 16 - Spreen wrote a letter to two judges, expressing regret and asking for admission into a jail recovery program for women, with the option of petitioning the court for a reduced sentence upon completion of the program. During an April 4 sentencing hearing, the judge approved the jailhouse program, but warned Spreen there is no guarantee she will see a reduced sentence.

She has lost her teaching job.

Foxboro, MASSACHUSETTS

COMMENT OF THE DAY

I had mr woodward several times, and he was always the man. If he simply looked at some porn, let him be. give him 2 years and some probation.If my child were going to be molested, id be honored for it to be Mr. Woodward

- Comment at TT entry for Gregg Woodward, Foxboro High School teacher who was arrested on charges of possessing child pornography.