Teacher Smackdown

In Pinellas Park, Florida, at Oak Park/CEP School a group of 14- and 15-year-old students started a commotion in a classroom. One of the students was harrassing teacher, Roslyn Holloway, 47. After leaving the classroom, teacher Bryant Alexander, 35, entered the classroom to restore order.

Holloway then returned with a two older students, one 16 and the other 17. Alexander let them shout profanities and bereate the younger students while he sat in the back of the room. Holloway stood at the door but did not enter.

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On a field trip to Washington, D.C., teacher Jesus Garcia got drunk, cursed at students, spanked them, and flung one on a bed. And now parents are outraged that no charges were filed against the soccer coach and ESL instructor for Immokalee Community School. Florida’s Department of Children and Families is investigating.

After a five-day field trip to Washington, D.C., five fifth graders were in their room at the Embassy Suites when Garcia told the group he was going downstairs and would return in 10 minutes. He returned an hour later drunk off his ass and smelling like booze.

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Akela J. Dillon, the Neuqua Valley High School teacher who slapped a 16-year-old black student for dating a white one, was found guilty of a misdemeanor battery charge. The incident was caught on video.

She’ll get a year of court supervision and was rdered to undergo anger-management counseling, pay $250 in fines and court fees, and avoid contact with the student.

Dillon, a first-year teacher at the high school, was immediately removed from the building following the incident. In March, she turned in a letter of resignation to be effective at the end of the school year, but was fired after her conviction.

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Akela J. Dillon, Neuqua Valley High School, hitting student, battery, child abuse

Here’s a story about a teacher literally putting the smackdown on a student. In Naperville, Illinois, at Neuqua Valley High School, teacher Akela Dillion, 26, was put on administrative leave following allegations that she slapped a student.

Tiffany Stephens, whose son was smacked by Dillon, said she received a call from school administrators that her son struck Dillion. However, after talking with her son and reviewing a video tape of the incident, it was obvious that Dillion attacked the boy.

Stephens said her son told her he was standing at a row of lockers when Dillion approached him. Her son, who is black, said the teacher made derogatory remarks about him dating a white girl. Then she swung at the student twice, missing him the first time and hitting him the second time. The Naperville Police Department is investigating the incident and battery charges are pending.

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Sounds like the New York City school bus system - which transports 142,000 public and private school students daily - is in huge trouble.

Here are just a few examples:

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In Riverton, Utah, Frank L. Hall, 36, a first-grade teacher at Rosamond Elementary School was charged with aggravated sexual abuse. He put his hand inside the pants of three girls. Police were notified after a student who witnessed the touching told his parents. Also, one of the girls reported the molestation to her mother.

Hall was one of 10 Utah teachers who received a Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education last year, which came with a $10,000 grant. Hall helped first-graders reach a sixth-grade reading level.

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In Wilmington, Del., Rachel Holt, 35, a sixth-grade science teacher at Claymont Elementary School was sentenced to 10 years in prison for seducing a 13-year-old male student.

Holt had been charged with 28 counts of first-degree rape for having sexual intercourse with the boy 28 times during an intense weeklong affair at her apartment. She was also accused of plying the boy with alcohol and allowing him to drive her car. She was arrested after the boy’s father reported overhearing telephone calls between Holt and his son about the affair.

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At Brighton Charter High School, all hell has been breaking loose. Teachers have been boozing it up - and molesting - students.

Former teacher Carrie McCandless, 29, was arrested last year and is facing felony charges of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Brighton Charter High School teacher - and wife of the principal - provided alcohol to students and engaged one of them in a sexual relationship during a late-October school field trip to Estes Park.

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