Summary June 9, 2007
ARRESTED - School Board Member
A school board member in Detroit, Texas, was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Daniel Hart attacked his wife's brother with a sledge hammer.
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PLEADED GUILTY - School Principal
A Michigan principal pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old male student. James Lighthizer , 54, will be sentenced in July. The plea calls for one year in jail, five years' probation and sex offender registration. TT - Link
SENTENCED - School Principal
To two years for sex with a 17-year-oldstudent. Danny Sarver, 53, an Illinois principal will have to register as a sex offender. TT - Link
SENTENCED for Child Pornography
In Michigan, Scott Beyer, 39, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. His sentence was one year probation, continuation in a sex offender treatment, and registration as a sex offender. (Why prosecutors bargain with pedophiles and allow them probation while demanding they register as a sex offender is beyond comprehension. If they are so sex obsessed that they are a registered sex offender, does probation seem an appropriate punishment for the offense that made registration necessary? It's increasingly clear that the real bargaining is for their teaching license. Which tells you how hard it is to actually fire a teacher that you have to let them get away with child pornography.) TT - Link
SENTENCED
Ty Walter Topper, 30, was sentenced to three years for in prison for attempting to sexually abuse an 8-year-old girl. (Oregon) TT - Link
EDUCATION IN TENNESSE
An article on grade inflation in statewide standardized testing lead to several articles on the school system in Nashville. TT - Link
EDUCATION IN
There are hundreds of Africentric schools in the U.S. In Ohio, there are 16 charter schools alone that focus on African heritage. In one Akron school, they offered gin to sixth graders as part of a rite of passage of sorts. The Ohio Board of Education is looking into the matter. TT - Link
