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RO: LA elementary school teacher charged with committing lewd acts with 23 boys & girls ages 7 to 10
This is why poor parents should get vouchers to send their kids to Catholic schools.
I see headlines just now about a second arrest at the same school. Yikes!
KABOOM!
(My head just asploded.)
What is it with this school? Los Angeles Times:
No shit. What kind of teacher’s aide uses the phrase, “don’t tell nobody.” I mean, are there no teaching standards in California?
Another scandal: The linked story says that a 50-something year old “teacher’s aide” sent love letters to an 11 year old boy. That aide “no longer works for the district”.
Also in the story: the entire school staff is being swapped out.
Edit: OOps! Sorry. I got ninja’d.
If the majority of the staff was doing similar, it could explain why the students thought it was “normal”.
From that link, about the whole teaching staff being removed:
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oh, I have no doubt. As a kid, I liked some of my teachers, too. 
I have no doubt that there are many innocent staff members caught up in this fiasco.
I also have no doubt that the school district is in “panicked CYA mode”.
Still, some parents (and probably not a majority) have lost confidence in the system, and the administration is reacting to that fear.
Au contraire—you can always go for the 12-guage.
This is too much money.
Sorry, it’s not really your call to make.
It wouldn’t feel like too much money if he was spooning sperm into your kid’s mouth
I dunno, still seems expensive. I know people who’d do that for free.
6 million per kid, their lawyer will probably take half and the government half of the remaining so they’ll walk away with about 1.5 mil. I got to say I’d eat jizz on a cookie for 1.5 mil. Those kids are probably set for life. Which is probably how it should be.
From the teacher’s perspective, yes. Oh, lighten up. Besides, it is a good point: he gets away with this for how many years, then does a bozo thing like turning in film to be developed. It’s like when Son of Sam got caught on a parking ticket.
Ah, I think we have a winner.
I’ve heard of bug fetishes before. Often enough for me to think that aside from non-sexual body parts (feet, hair, which are really common fetishes) bugs are fairly common.
Because, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t. Maybe that’s why boys and girls.
If his jizz was triggering peanut allergies, he would have been caught long before this:
“Did you eat peanuts?”
“No.”
“Someone else’s sandwich at lunch?”
“No.”
“Anything besides what you parents packed for your lunch and snack?”
“Well…”
I cannot believe that this case was settled for that amount. I have no idea what happened behind closed doors but I can’t conceive of a school board who would vote for that for the amount proposed.
I’m on a school board. Our annual budget is around 80 million. If our reserves get below 3% we run the risk of the state taking over our district. A $139 million dollar settlement would blow through our budget, our reserves, and leave us in debt to the tune of around 40 million dollars.
Is LA any different? Last year their budget was $13 billion and were looking at how to make up a deficit of $449 million! Most likely the settlement can only be taken from one subsection of their funds: operating expenses. That’s around 7 billion.
Source:
http://laschoolboard.org/sites/default/files/LAUSD2013-14FinalBudget.pdf
So this district, already dealing with budgetary problems, has agreed to a settlement would slice 5% into its operating expenses for this next year.
For the sake of the wellbeing of the district and the kids within it, I’d have rolled the dice with the jury.
You’re forgetting about insurance.
It’s not $6mil, it’s less than $1mil per claimant, probably $500k after the contingency rate and expenses.