{"id":20270,"date":"2017-03-10T01:46:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20270"},"modified":"2017-03-10T01:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T01:46:05","slug":"plague-in-inappropriate-student-teacher-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20270","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Plague&#8217; in inappropriate student-teacher relationships?"},"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\/2017\/03\/Public-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20272\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Public-School-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Public-School-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Public-School-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Public-School.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Texas legislators are seeking to do something that, to be honest, I am surprised hasn&#8217;t been done already.<\/p>\n<p>They want to make it illegal for\u00a0school administrators\u00a0to fail to report incidents of improper student-teacher relationships. Really? It&#8217;s not illegal already? I guess not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-daily-post\/state-of-texas\/?utm_content=buffer44144&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">State Sen. Paul Bettencourt <\/a>has collected the support of all 30 of his Senate colleagues in proposing legislation that would make failure to report such hideous behavior a Class A misdemeanor. To be honest, the level of criminality seems light.<\/p>\n<p>As the Texas Tribune reports: &#8220;Bettencourt said that many of the teachers involved in such conduct are able to be\u00a0rehired in other districts, a phenomenon known\u00a0as &#8216;pass the trash,&#8217; because districts fail to report them to the Texas Education Agency. The bill seeks to end that practice by slapping a Class A misdemeanor on\u00a0administrators who\u00a0fail to report such relationships, and if it is an intentional cover-up, administrators could be charged with a state jail felony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Has this circumstance reached &#8220;plague&#8221; status? I am not qualified to answer that question. Yes, we&#8217;ve read about such ghastly behavior in some of our Texas Panhandle school systems. Teachers have been fired; they have faced criminal charges. What isn&#8217;t generally reported here is whether administrators have kept their eyes closed to it, or if they have deliberately covered it up.<\/p>\n<p>An administrator who purposely protects a teacher who has been romancing a student ought to lose his or her job and should be prosecuted and, if convicted, thrown in <em>prison<\/em> for contributing to the sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p>No more &#8220;passing the trash,&#8221; legislators.<\/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>Texas legislators are seeking to do something that, to be honest, I am surprised hasn&#8217;t been done already. They want to make it illegal for\u00a0school administrators\u00a0to fail to report incidents of improper student-teacher relationships. Really? It&#8217;s not illegal already? I guess not. State Sen. Paul Bettencourt has collected the support of all 30 of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Plague&#8217; in inappropriate student-teacher relationships?<\/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":[6251,9,18],"tags":[3766,6616,4661,4728],"class_list":["post-20270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-public-education","tag-tea","tag-texas-monthly","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270","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=20270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20273,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20270\/revisions\/20273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}