Fremont music teacher charged with voyeurism

SF Chronicle

A Fremont music teacher accused of taking "up-skirt" photos of a woman on an escalator last month at a Seattle airport has been charged with one count of voyeurism.

Prosecutors in King County, Wash., say Christopher T. Wilhite, 33, took several photos of a woman he noticed while passing through a security checkpoint for a flight to Oakland on June 6. Wilhite told investigators he had "a sudden impulse" to snap pictures up the woman's dress as he stood a few steps below her, according to court filings.

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Another "Gets Off": Ex-teacher Pleads Guilty Of Nude Photo To 15-Yr Old

DERRY, N.H. (AP)

A former New Hampshire high school teacher has pleaded guilty to a charge she e-mailed nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old student.

Forty-one-year-old Melinda Dennehy of Hampstead entered the plea Monday to a misdemeanor charge of indecent exposure.

As part of a plea agreement, Dennehy was given a suspended jail sentence on the condition that she remain on good behavior and have no contact with the child or go to the high school.

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Opinion: School Daze at L.A. Schools

By Rabbi Nachum Shifren
June 26, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Rabbi Shifren is a Candidate for California State Senate; Educator, Veteran teacher for 22 years in L.A. Schools

Poor Steve Zimmer, board member of L.A. Unified School District (Jewish Journal, 6/18). How much courage did it take to come up with yet another pathetic whimper about more school funding--at a time of record unemployment, unprecedented tax burdens on Californians, massive foreclosures, and a whopping 50% drop out rate in the District! Hey, this takes guts! (or chutzpah?)

The effrontery of board member Zimmer and his colleagues is beyond embarrassing to those who have been following the abysmal, some say criminal, record of the worst school district in the nation. This time even the voters who are usually unaware of District machinations on our pocketbooks, turned them down in a clear slap in the face of these bureaucrats that could not care a drop for our students.

This district is sitting on a powder keg ready to go off. If a martian were to land at many of the campuses, the interplanetary visitor would correctly assume that the mission statement of our academic genius administrators would be: maximum confusion, minimum effort, near-total apathy and dysfunction.

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Busted: Teacher caught in car with boy, alcohol

Apparent "even swap" goes belly-up; boy never actually got any alcohol because his weed "had oregano in it. I've had better Mex, honestly," the teacher said.

Mayfield, OH

A Mayfield High School teacher has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Mayfield police said Timothy Paxton, 49, of Mentor, was arrested for an incident that happened at 2 p.m. on July 15.

Paxton was sitting in a car behind a business located on SOM Center Road with a 15-year-old boy, according to Mayfield police. There was alcohol in the car as well, but police said it was unopened.

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Better late than never? 30-yr oversight and after bunches of dead students and cops, IL. governor forms school violence commission

Gov. "coulda sworn" there was already an anti-violence thingy in place, ya know, cuz of all the dead students and cops over the years. The millions of $$ allocated for school violence prevention been's spent on something, probably other "important, official school stuff - trust us."

FOX Chicago News

Chicago - Governor Quinn has created a commission to confront violence in Illinois.

He said it's wrong that so many kids in Illinois are more worried about getting shot at or on the way to school than they are about getting good grades in school.

The new commission will have relatives of gun violence victims as its members.

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Sexually disoriented left out of anti-bullying policy

Law promotes perv-on-perv violence, allows fags and trannies to continue bullying each other in centuries-old vie for top protected-perv spot, endless debate over gay crap.

Anniston, AL

Under an anti-harassment policy passed by the Anniston Board of Education Wednesday, students are explicitly protected from bullying based on their race, gender, religion or disability.

Sexual orientation? Not so much.

With Wednesday’s unanimous vote, Anniston joined school systems across the state in passing an official policy for dealing with bullying and harassment. The move is required by the Student Harassment Prevention Act, passed by the Alabama Legislature in the wake of a wave of bullying-related suicides across the country.

Shortly after the law was passed, the state released a model anti-harassment policy that has since been adopted almost word-for-word in many school districts. The model policy explicitly bans harassment based on race, disability and religion, but is silent on anti-gay bullying.

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Preparing Students For Life: School Fights

Praise God: Above average shootings shut-down school

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (WPIX) - The Huntington School Board voted to close Jack Abrams Intermediate School, after an emergency meeting last night. The 4-3 vote means that 360 schoolchildren in grades 4, 5, and 6 will be moved to other schools, when classes begin in September.

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