{"id":17390,"date":"2016-10-04T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17390"},"modified":"2016-10-04T23:54:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T23:54:58","slug":"shadow-classroom-issue-comes-to-the-fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17390","title":{"rendered":"Shadow classroom issue comes to the fore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BD7_6562Phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17391\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BD7_6562Phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bd7_6562phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BD7_6562Phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BD7_6562Phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/BD7_6562Phillips-crop_jpg_800x1000_q100.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I honestly didn&#8217;t see this one coming.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Education Agency officials are asking state lawmakers for lots of additional money to help the TEA get to the bottom of a most troubling issue: improper student-teacher relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has rocked school districts across the state. Amarillo is not immune from the news of teachers allegedly having improper sexual relationships with students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/10\/01\/tea-requests-more-money-student-teacher-relationsh\/\">https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/10\/01\/tea-requests-more-money-student-teacher-relationsh\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea if this issue has reached epidemic proportions. I do know that we are hearing more reports of these kinds of events: teachers getting suspended, arrested and then fired over allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>TEA is going to ask legislators for $400,000 to hire more investigators to examine these alleged occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>This is a hugely troubling issue, no matter how extensive it has become &#8230; if it has become extensive.<\/p>\n<p>Parents send their children to school trusting educators to protect them as well as educate them. There can be zero tolerance for this kind of misbehavior.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to be on TEA&#8217;s side on this one. If the agency believes there exists a problem in our public classrooms, then it ought to be incumbent on lawmakers &#8212; who parcel out public money to pay for our school system &#8212; to ensure that the agency has the tools it needs to investigate and solve these problems.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I honestly didn&#8217;t see this one coming. Texas Education Agency officials are asking state lawmakers for lots of additional money to help the TEA get to the bottom of a most troubling issue: improper student-teacher relationships. The issue has rocked school districts across the state. Amarillo is not immune from the news of teachers allegedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shadow classroom issue comes to the fore<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6251,18],"tags":[316,6616,4653,6617,4728],"class_list":["post-17390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-state-news","tag-amarillo-isd","tag-tea","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-public-schools","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17392,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17390\/revisions\/17392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}