Tag: MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Teacher accidentally played porn during history class: district
A substitute teacher in Michigan showed pornography for at least 30 seconds during a middle school history class, district officials said.
The unidentified teacher at O.L. Smith Middle School in Dearborn had intended to play footage about the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but mistakenly aired pornographic material to an entire class of startled seventh-graders on March 13, WJBK reports.
“This event was a very unfortunate and rare occurrence,” the school’s principal, Zeina Jebril, wrote in a letter to parents of the 29 students in the class. “Our district has very powerful and proven filtering software to prevent this type of event from happening. Each day thousands of students log on to the internet throughout the district without incident.”
Jebril said school officials were investigating how the incident occurred and what steps are needed to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
David Mustonen, a spokesman for Dearborn Public Schools, said the substitute teacher was “unaware that the video was there,” blaming the in-class peep show on a technological glitch.
“In this particular instance, it appears that there was some type of loophole,” Mustonen said. “One time too many, but very isolated.”
Police and district officials told WJBK there’s no evidence that a student was responsible for playing the footage, perhaps as a prank.
No criminal intent was found on behalf of the teacher, but the educator won’t be invited back to schools in Dearborn because district officials can’t confirm where the video originated, WJBK reports.
Ex-school employee: I lost my virginity to a 15-year-old student
A former middle school employee in Houston admitted losing her virginity to a 15-year-old student, saying she loved him “with all of her heart,” court documents reveal.
Hannah Parisa Siboyeh, who worked as a paraprofessional at Labay Middle School, was arrested last week after confessing to investigators that she had the illicit relationship, which she characterized as “one mistake after another,” the Houston Chronicle reported.
Siboyeh, 24, told authorities that she lost her virginity to the former student — who is now in high school — at the school during the summer of 2017 and later had sex with the teen at his house, in a park and at a hotel in Houston, according to the report.
“She admitted that she loved [the boy] with all of her heart,” court documents obtained by the newspaper show.
Police were tipped off about the relationship by an assistant principal in April. The administrator said an anonymous tipster told her about a sexual relationship between a district employee and a male student, detailing a visit to the teen’s house during which the tipster reported seeing the student and Siboyeh lying in bed together.
The informant also reported “weird noises” coming from the room while she was there, according to charging documents that reveal additional witnesses also confirmed Siboyeh and the teen were in a boyfriend-and-girlfriend-type relationship.
Siboyeh, who is facing charges of an improper relationship with a student and sexual assault of a child, appeared in court Monday after posting $10,000 bond. She was ordered by a judge to stay away from the boy and his relatives. She must also stay away from any child care facility, school or residence where the boy resides, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Investigators recovered several explicit images of Siboyeh and the boy on her phone, as well as video of the two having sex, KPRC reports.
Siboyeh, meanwhile, got emotional after leaving court Monday with her attorney, according to the station. Attorney Robert Kelton said the former paraprofessional, who also worked as a substitute teacher, is very nervous due to the allegations and potential prison time she faces — up to 17 years if convicted on both charges she faces.
Kelton also claimed that the boy’s family did not want charges filed against Siboyeh, KIAH reports.
Siboyeh, who has since been removed from her position, is due back in court Nov. 11.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/11/ex-school-employee-i-lost-my-virginity-to-a-15-year-old-student/
Teachers under fire for naming student ‘most likely to become a terrorist’
Disciplinary action was taken against several Texas middle school teachers after they named a student “most likely to become a terrorist.”
The superlative was given to seventh grader Lizeth Villanueva in a mock ceremony this week at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Texas, according to news station KHOU.
“She said that some people might get offended, but she doesn’t really care about our feelings,” she said. “She was laughing about it.”
Her mom Ena Hernandez said she was horrified to find the certificate.
“I read it twice. I’m like, ‘What is this?!’” Hernandez told KHOU.
She said that the award set a bad example for the students.
“It doesn’t look good at all, especially coming from a teacher, a grown-up woman,” Hernandez said. “It doesn’t look good because everything that’s going on right now.”
The principal personally apologized to the family and the school announced Thursday that the teachers involved had been disciplined.
“The Channelview Independent School District Administration would like to apologize for the insensitive and offensive fake mock awards that were given to students in a classroom,” the district said in a statement. “Channelview ISD would like to assure all students, parents and community members that these award statements and ideals are not representative of the district’s vision, mission and educational goals for our students.