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This is just from the last two days in the Dallas area. Sweet fancy moses...

 

 

 

Cleburne ISD athletic trainer arrested on child pornography charges

By SAMANTHA URBAN / The Dallas Morning News

An athletic trainer with the Cleburne Independent School District remained in custody this morning accused of possession of child pornography after someone turned in a thumb drive to Dallas police.

 

Police said Timothy Joseph Huot, 53, had more than 1,000 photos of male and female children when he was arrested Tuesday. Some of the images were obtained from the Internet, but investigators said some appeared to have been taken by the suspect in the Cleburne area.

 

A person who found a thumb drive with child pornography on it several weeks ago handed it to Dallas authorities, said Dallas police Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse. The Internet unit determined it belonged to someone in Cleburne and handed it over to Cleburne police.

 

Huot, who is listed in the physical education department on Cleburne High School's Web site, has been charged with possession of child pornography and improper photography, both felonies. He remained in Johnson County Jail in lieu of $225,000 bail, according to the Johnson County sheriff's office.

 

Southlake coach arrested for lewd act

ROANOKE

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I'm not sure what the problem is with the second story. You've never "parked" before?

 

Not like it involved a student or happened on school grounds or anything. Hell, in Texas people are probably pleasantly surprised that a female volleyball coach got caught with a man.

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Detroit high school students could earn up to $2,000 a year for passing major subjects under a bill that is to be introduced in Lansing today.

 

It is one of three bills from Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit, that would reorganize about 30 failing high schools in Detroit Public Schools and offer extra pay to teachers and students for improvements.

 

One bill would demand sweeping reorganization, including maximum class sizes of 16 students, character education classes, mentors and individualized learning plans for each student in DPS's high schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress the past five years.

 

Clarke said he wants the changes implemented before school lets out for the summer. He said he would approach the Broad Foundation, created by DPS alum Eli Broad to support changes in education, about providing money to pay students for good grades. He has not formally requested it, he added.

 

That's nuts.

 

Considering this:

 

Detroit Schools, the 11th largest district in the country, was dead last in graduating seniors with an appalling 21.7%.
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I'm not sure what the problem is with the second story. You've never "parked" before?

 

Not like it involved a student or happened on school grounds or anything..

This was my thought, too. The first story seems far more deserving of the OMG treatment.

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I'm not sure what the problem is with the second story. You've never "parked" before?

 

Not like it involved a student or happened on school grounds or anything. Hell, in Texas people are probably pleasantly surprised that a female volleyball coach got caught with a man.

 

 

Giving a hummer in a public place is still against the law.

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True, but I'm not sure what that has to do with "our schools."

 

Hummers are publicly administered every day by people from all walks of life. This woman just happened to get written up for it. That she's a school employee is a coincidence.

 

 

Ok...you win.

 

Guess the moral turpitude clause....aw fuck it. You give me tiredhead

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At my catholic high school, the track coach got one of the girls on the track team pregnant. He got fired. I think they got married and had the kid, then they divorced. So catholic of them.

 

At the public high school I went to before I went to catholic school one of the female teachers was rumored to have a tradition of taking a male student to Florida every year. She wound up getting fired, too.

 

EDIT: Both of these scenarios occurred in the mid to late '80s.

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To be fair, I'm just busting on Crow because one of his examples doesn't really bear out his point -- but it does seem that there have been a lot of distressing stories coming out of schools lately -- both public and private, involving both students and faculty/staff.

 

I don't know whether this represents an uptick in actual incidents, or just increased emphasis in reporting such incidents in the news, but it is something I've noticed also.

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The town about 5 miles from me had this story from a couple of years ago:

 

http://www.tecumsehherald.com/node/1751

 

I went to high school with Matt Peterson, who was the track coach. He's a real stand up guy, that's for sure.

 

Coach Peterson faced 20 felony counts including distributing obscene matter to children, criminal sexual conduct and accosting children for immoral purposes. He was accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl in 2003 and the first-degree criminal sexual conduct charge carried a possible life in prison term. The 33-year-old also faced 10 misdemeanor counts of furnishing alcohol to minors and an additional count of allowing the consumption of drugs and alcohol on the premises. He was sentenced to four years and eight months to seven years in prison for distributing child sexually abusive activity. He also received a concurrent 17-month to four-year term for possession of child sexually abusive material. The charges involved Peterson letting kids watch a homemade pornographic video of minors in his home. The boy, Matthew Dunn, who made the sex tape with his girlfriend was sentenced to two weeks hard labor with 160 hours of community service and two years probation with fines for a reduced aggravated assault.
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Not like it involved a student or happened on school grounds or anything. Hell, in Texas people are probably pleasantly surprised that a female volleyball coach got caught with a man.

 

Just Texas? I think all over the nation people are pleasantly surprised.

 

[quote name='Crow Daddy Magnus

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Just Texas? I think all over the nation people are pleasantly surprised.

 

 

 

Is getting a hummer in public against the law? Just wondering because if we ever got caught I'd be a little less worried knowing that my wife would go to jail and not me...

 

 

 

Ken Starr?

Once JS shows up...it's time to close the thread.

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