Quantum Windbag
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Remember that teacher who tied up the kids and did other things I, personally, do not want to talk about? It seems that the school district could not defend firing him because any investigation they conducted might have actually interfered with the criminal investigation that LAPD was conducting. That, for the more ignorant posters here, is a proper application of due process to this situation. Due process does not apply to employment contracts, it applies to criminal law.
Unfortunately, the rules that got set up that are supposed to protect teachers from all the bad things that never happen end up being set in stone due to union contracts that allow a man who forced kids to drink his semen to successfully challenge being fired by a school district whose first priority should be to educate the children.
Just think, if this guy did not accept the settlement he would still have a job. Is that really the system you want to use to deal with public servants that need to be fired?
Teacher In Los Angeles Molest Case Reportedly Paid $40G To Drop Appeal Of Firing | Fox News
Unfortunately, the rules that got set up that are supposed to protect teachers from all the bad things that never happen end up being set in stone due to union contracts that allow a man who forced kids to drink his semen to successfully challenge being fired by a school district whose first priority should be to educate the children.
Just think, if this guy did not accept the settlement he would still have a job. Is that really the system you want to use to deal with public servants that need to be fired?
The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday. The Los Angeles Unified School District settled with Mark Berndt because it couldn't defend his February 2011 firing, district general counsel David Holmquist told the Los Angeles Times.
Berndt was removed from the classroom in January 2011 and dismissed as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was investigating him. He appealed but resigned in June after the district agreed to pay him four months of back salary and reimburse his health benefit costs.
"We were told we could not do any investigation" to avoid interfering with the criminal probe, Holmquist said. "We didn't have any evidence and we couldn't put on any witnesses. We didn't have anything to successfully defend a challenge."
Teacher In Los Angeles Molest Case Reportedly Paid $40G To Drop Appeal Of Firing | Fox News