Perrin High School in Perrin, Texas learned recently that apparently a teacher can be a bit too accommodating to their students.

Kimme Woolf, 29, was a math teacher at Perrin High School up until she resigned on Oct. 26th when it was revealed she had sexual relations with two students, one aged 16 and the other 18.  She turned herself over to authorities this week and was charged with two counts of  improper relationship between a teacher and student and one count of  sexual assault of a child under 17.  All three charges our  second-degree felonies in the state of Texas.

The story goes that the two students approached the math teacher in Oct. after hearing she had left her previous school after allegations arose of her fooling around with a student.  The two teens asked the married teacher if she would like to fool around, but she sent them on to their next class.  Apparently the teens continued to ask her and she finally relented.

All of the activity was discovered when the 18-year-old’s father spotted an unknown car outside the 16-year-olds house, and when it left after several hours he recognized Mrs. Woolf as a teacher at the high school.  He informed the younger boy’s mother of what he saw, and after she found text messages on the boy’s phone that implied a sexual relationship, he confessed the teacher had brought him lunch when he stayed home sick from school, and the two had sex.  The older boy then confessed to two occasions of the teacher performing oral sex on him when he was confronted.

The parents first talked with Mrs. Woolf directly demanding she resign as they didn’t want this public and having her husband possibly come after the boys.  She promised she had resigned, but when it was revealed a few days later she hadn’t, the parents turned her into the school.

Mrs. Woolf was given time to turn herself into authorities, which she did within the allotted time, and was then released on $30,000 bond.

This is the third teacher sex scandal story from Texas that I’ve reported on just this week!  The previous two were Jennifer Riojas from Forth Worth and Andrea Berbel from Houston. What in the world is going on in that state?

While I was reluctant to do a third story in a week (I am not a site that specializes in this news), I was just amazed at how this one came about. She gave in to what amounts to peer pressure? I mean, it’s bad enough the kids asked her (which, her previous school claims they have no record of allegations being filed against her), but the fact that she relented? What a clear thinking educator have informed the principal? Wouldn’t these kids have gotten a talking to? No, her solution was, “Oh, what the heck!”

Even I’m floored by this one.

Robert E. Lee High School in west Houston, TX has joined the ranks of supposed improper relations between faculty and students.

Andrea Berbel, 28, was arrested last Thursday on one count of an improper relationship with a student and two counts of sexual assault of a child.  She was released on Friday on $30,000 bond.

The allegations are that she was seen by two students at the school with a 16-year-old male student that she was both hugging and kissing on the lips.  The two students reported the incident to the staff of the school, which then in turn interviewed the student.

The unnamed student reported that Ms. Berbel began tutoring him in Nov. 2009, and that their relationship turned flirtatious.  Over the 2009 winter break he invited her over to a friend’s house and they engaged in sexual intercourse.  There was at least one more incident in Jan. 2010, but no other were admitted after that date.

ABC affiliate KTRK spoke with the boy’s mother who informed them that this happened 11 months ago, and she has since forgiven Berbel.

The school district has stated that she is no longer employed by them.

I’m sorry, but if they were kissing and hugging just last week, somehow I doubt that other activities ceased in Jan. of this year.

A ninth grade science teacher at Carter-Riverside High School has been arrested o accusations of having a sexual relationship with a then 16-year-old student at the school.  The twist is, she’s also pregnant.

Last Wednesday Jennifer Riojas, 25-years-old, was taken into custody after accusation surfaced she had a sexual relationship with one of her students.  Apparently things started back in the fall of 2009 when Ms. Riojas took an interest in the student and began attending his football games.  In Dec. 2009 the unnamed student was injured, and the student alleges that Riojas came to visit him and ended up having sex with him in the hospital bed.  The accusations go on to allege that the sexual relations continued from there in hotel rooms.

Ms. Riojas (mug shot to the right taken after a DUI arrest) resigned her position with the school last month due to stress she said it was putting on her pregnancy.  It is not known at this time if the student is potentially the father or not.  However, according to at least one source, this was where the accusations against her came from as the student stepped forward over concern the child may be his.  A paternity test is currently pending.

Ms. Riojas is maintaining her innocence of all allegations, and has said that there is no chance that a student is the father of her child.

Bail was posted for Ms. Riojas and she has not been seen or heard from publicly since.

A teacher at South Creek Middle School in Williamston, North Carolina has been accused of statutory rape of a 14-year-old student, and been put on paid suspension.

Sara Dwiggins, 24, was a teacher of 7th & 8th grade math and science at Bear Grass School last year when she is accused of having engaged in sexual relations with an unnamed 14-year-old male student.

Ms. Dwiggins has been charged with two counts of statutory rape stemming from incidents that are said to have taken place last May and June.  The police would not confirm if the minor was a student of her’s, nor would they say where the incidents took place except that they took place in Martin County.  According to WCTI that rules out the events having happened at her home.

The arrest took place on Nov. 2nd and she was held on $200,000 bond.  She was not able to post bail until it was reduced to $50,000, but that came with some restrictions: Ms. Dwiggins has to reside with her mother, adhere to a curfew, must check-in with the sheriff once a week and she may not have contact with faculty, school board members or students of the school district.

Again and again I am amazed by these stories.  How can any teacher violate the public trust in this way?  And, more importantly, how can they look at a 14-year-old boy and go, “mmm hot!”  I speak from experience of being a 14-year-old boy for an entire year, and I can assure you … you want nothing to do with them.

It seems that Facebook is becoming the new place for teachers to get pervy on their students, and the New York City Department of Education isn’t going to stand for it.

According to The New York Post, a recent investigation by the DoE led to the dismissal of two full-time teachers and one substitute for inappropriate contact with students.

Chadwin Reynolds (picture removed at request of the photographer, please visit the newspaper article to see it.), a 37-year-old teacher from Fordham High School for the Arts, was dismissed when the investigation found he had friended a half-dozen female students on Facebook.  He left comments such as “this is sexy” under their photos, and had status messages such as ”I’m not a gynecologist, but I’ll take a look inside,”  that the students could see.  He also reportedly sent one girl flowers, candy and a teddy bear.  Mr. Reynolds told the newspaper that the charges against him had been thrown out despite a department spokesperson saying he had been released over the scandal.

The second full-time dismissal was 30-year-old Laurie Hirsch, who was formerly a paraprofessional at William C. Bryant High School in Long Island City, Queens.  She was let go in May of this year when she posted an image of her kissing an 18-year-old former student.  The male in the equation admitted to a relationship saying he had had sex with her ten times in her apartment, but both said that nothing had happened while he was still a student.  She was ultimately put on indefinite suspension for using a cellphone to frequently during school hours as the two had racked up 2,700 phone contacts over a six month period.

The substitute teacher that was let go,  Stephen D’Andrilli, friended several female students at the Essex Street Academy, leaving the comments such as that they were beautiful and that their boyfriends didn’t deserve girlfriends as pretty as them.  He was permanently removed from the substitute teacher system.

A fourth teacher was discovered to be giving extra credit to students who friended him on the site, but no action was taken against him.

Some school districts have been outright banning teachers from friending students on the popular social networking site, but New York City has yet to enact any sort of policy in relation to it.  A DoE spokeswoman told the newspaper, ”we continually look at ways that our policies may need to evolve to keep pace with technology,” so it seems safe to assume that off the back of this scandal something will be happening.

Luckily it appears that none of these situations went to the physical level with the exception of Ms. Hirsch, and that one appears to have been legal.  Does make you wonder where else this may be happening, however.

Be sure to check out the other teacher sex scandals happening around the country.

Skyview High School in Vancouver, WA did not have a good week last week. I guess that’s what happens when two faculty members are arrested in the same week for separate sex scandals.

On Tuesday, Oct. 5th, 23-year-old band assistant Adrian Kelley was arrested for having sexual relations with two separate 16-year-old female students at the school.  Mr. Kelley graduated from Skyview High School in 2005, and started this school year with the band as a privately paid assistant.  Apparently Mr. Kelley didn’t waste any time in getting to know the students.

One of the students was not a member of the band, but hung out with other students who were involved.  She revealed the relationship to a school counselor, to whom she also told about a member of the band that was also involved with Kelley.  Upon questioning by the police, the 23-year-old initially denied the accusations, but finally relented and admitted to having had physical relations with both students.

Apparently both students friended the former Skyview student on an unnamed social network, progressed to discussing non-school subjects with him, eventually socialized with him and then progressed to sexual relations.

He faces charges for “abuse of trust” which is statute that applies to anyone that works with students.

As if all that wasn’t exciting enough, on Thursday, Oct. 7th, it was revealed that science teacher and coach (boy’s track & football) Nathan Botnen had a sexual relationship with a student during the 2007 – 2008 school year.  It has not been revealed how the relationship with the then 17-year-old student  came to light now, but Mr. Botnen has already appeared before a judge and is being held over for arraignment until Oct. 15th in lieu of $100,000 bail.

The 33-year-old teacher is charged with 30 counts of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor.

The girl graduated in 2008, and the relationship reportedly ended in Aug. 2008.  Somehow text messages between the two were discovered now, and the school immediately contacted the authorities.

It would seem that Skyview High School has some serious problems to deal with.

Both of these men join the ever growing list of teacher sex scandals.

Wouldn’t you think that a teacher that pled guilty to multiple counts of inappropriately touching his female students might lose his job? Well, you’d be wrong it seems if he’s a teacher at Morton Middle School in Morton, WA.

Michael Moulton, a History and Study Skills teacher, returned to the his classroom this week to get ready for the school year.  The problem is that Mr. Moulton was recently fired after he pled guilty to inappropriately touching four female students, and then served 20 days in county jail.  Court documents demonstrated that Mr. Moulton had had complaints filed against him as far back as 1997, with more complaints in 2005 and a disciplinary letter in 2008 with his final number of complaints against him for inappropriate touching coming to a dozen.

With his jail time served it would seem all was done, but then he decided to appeal his firing and it was ruled that the punishment did not fit the crime and the school was forced to rehire him.  Two families have moved out of the district over the situation and 23 other students have had their families pull them out of his class.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction is investigating this case, and they could dismiss the case against the teacher, discipline the teacher or permanently revoke his teaching credential.

Well, here’s an idea, when the teacher pleads guilty, and there is even documentation of a girl being sent to detention for screaming to “get his expletive hands off of me!” when he wanted stop rubbing her shoulders even after she asked, you fire the man.  And, I’m sorry, but he pled guilty, to me that is immediate grounds for dismissal.  He pleads guilty, and serves time, for one of the worst things a teacher can do to his students and he gets to come back because some panel decides his punishment was too harsh

I’m sorry, but you are flipping morons.  He pled guilty … how many different ways can I say this?  This man does not need to be anywhere near a classroom ever again.  This is one of those situations where you get one strike and you’re out.  Not two, not three, but just one as this man should never be allwed another chance to make a student uncomfortable.

He is scum, and he must be removed from the classroom immediately.

(Hat tip to Jo for pointing this out to me)

A Tucson, AZ English teacher has been arrested on allegations of furnishing harmful items to a minor.

Jennifer Whiting, 32, is an English teacher at Rincon High School in Tucson, AZ, and she has been arrested on allegations of furnishing harmful items to a minor.  As to what those materials were, it is alleged that she furnished a 16-year-old male student with naked photos of herself via text message.

The police were alerted to situation after the father of the teenager contacted them with concerns that his son was having an inappropriate relationship with Ms. Whiting.  On the morning of June 25th she was arrested by the police after she left her children at home in the early morning hours to have a rendezvous with the teen.  Child Protective Services were alerted to the situation regarding her kids after Ms. Whiting was taken to the Pima County Jail.

She has been charged with a Class 4 Felony.

You would think I would be getting used to these stories after the number I’ve written.  And I have actually tried to cut down on the number I report on because they are just depressing, but leaving your minor children alone at home so you can go meet a 16-year-old?  I guess they will never cease to amaze me.

Check out all of the teacher sex scandals of 2009 I covered, as well as the growing list of teacher sex scandals of 2010.

A 15 year veteran special eduvation teacher at the Canandaigua Academy in Canandaigua, NY has been accused of sexual relations with one student, and encouraging two others to have a sexual relationship with her.

37-year-old Marls Gurecki-Haskins surrendered to the police yesterday after being accused of engaging in oral sex with a student in a classroom during school hours.  She is also accused of having sent text messages and electronic communications to two different 16-year-old students that encouraged them to engage in a sexual relationship with her, but neither of these two boys are known to have progressed to the physical stage.

Ms. Gurecki-Haskins pleaded not guilty to charges of official misconduct, sending indecent materials to a minor and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.  She was not charged with with rape or serious sex crimes due to the age of consent being 17 in the state of New York, and she is only suspected of having had sexual contact with the older boy.

Ms. Gurecki-Haskins is said to be married, and to have recently had a baby.  She is currently on administrative leave from the school.

Check out all of the teacher sex scandals of 2009 I covered, as well as the growing list of teacher sex scandals of 2010.

A Kent State University student in Ohio may have ended her teaching career before it even began if allegations of sexual misconduct with a high school student prove to be true.

Allegations have been made against 22-year-old Melanie Yusko, a Kent State University student completing her student teaching at Southeast High School in Ravenna, OH, that she had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old sophomore male student at the school.  The story came to light after the boy bragged to a friend about the situation, and then somehow the boy’s mother discovered the information and found texts and calls between the boy and student teacher on his cell phone.

The boy’s mother called the school to inform them of the situation, and Ms. Yusko was immediately removed from her classroom for questioning and to be sent home.  The school then called the sheriffs department, child protective services and Kent State to inform them of the situation.  Ms. Yusko was arrested and released on $50,000 bond, and is currently serving house arrest.

Ms. Yusko had been student teaching at the high school since Jan., and the allegations say that the relationship with the boy started off innocently, but escalated once the pair began calling and texting one another.  Supposedly the relationship culminated in a sexual encounter on April 7th, somewhere off school grounds. She has been charged with sexual battery, which is a third degree felony in Ohio, and could be facing prison time if convicted. She is due in court in Sept.

Kent State University is reviewing if Ms. Yusko will be allowed to graduate as she did not complete her student teaching.

Check out all of the teacher sex scandals of 2009 I covered.

It would seem that James Madison High School in Midwood, Brooklyn is living up to its new nickname as “Horndog High”.

Allegations have surfaced against 37-year-old gym teacher Lisa Guttilla of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl at Poly Prep Country Day School where she worked part time as a volleyball coach.  She also worked at James Madison High School in Brooklyn as a gym teacher.

The accusations arose after the teenager’s mother began questioning her about a hickey on her neck.  The teenager eventually confessed to three sessions of fondling with Ms. Guttilla between Jan. 4th and 9th.  The complaint filed in Brooklyn Criminal Court has the teacher charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of child and states that she did “touch, grab, squeeze and kiss the [girl] about the breast and buttock.”

Ms. Guttilla has been reassigned her to a job that teachers under investigation go to while being investigated.  She may encounter some familiar faces there as this is the third teacher sex scandal in two months for James Madison High School.  The first involved two teachers, Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro, being caught by a janitor while making out in a classroom during a school talent show.  The second incident involved a social studies teacher named Allison Musacchio who was discovered to have made over 200 calls and texts to a male student at the school. She was discovered after the ex-girlfriend of the student spotted the boy’s phone number on the teacher’s cell phone.

Either there is a serious problem at this school, or else students are finding a way to attack their teachers.  Accusations of this magnitude are a serious situation, but in all of the teacher sex scandals I’ve documented, I’ve never seen a concentration like this in one school.  Something is beginning to smell a might funny about all of this.