Teachers and staff at a Chula Vista elementary school voiced alarm about a teacher’s behavior with developmentally disabled children for months before the district conducted an investigation. The district forced the teacher to resign but didn’t inform state regulators until Voice of San Diego asked about it.
Category: School Sexual Misconduct
Cases of sexual misconduct by teachers and other public school employees are documented all over San Diego County, from Vista and Carlsbad in the north to Chula Vista in the south.
Records obtained as part of a broad Voice of San Diego investigation show some teachers were quietly reprimanded for years as complaints piled up. Other times, school districts moved teachers from school to school after finding they violated sexual harassment policies with students.
Rather than terminate teachers, some school districts negotiated departure deals and paid them to leave — at times agreeing to keep substantiated misconduct secret from future employers.
