The personnel files stretched the length of the 15-foot conference table in Superintendent John Deasy's office, a chronicle of the corporal punishment, verbal and physical abuse and sexual misconduct reported in the classrooms of the Los Angeles Unified School District.Cuts and bruises. Curses and racial slurs. Caresses and pornography.
In the past, the misdeeds detailed in the teachers' files would likely have earned the offender a disciplinary memo, maybe a week's suspension, perhaps a transfer to another school.
Today, they're grounds for firing.
Under the zero-tolerance policy that Deasy enacted after the Miramonte Elementary sex-abuse scandal erupted in February 2012, the school board has voted to dismiss more than 100 teachers for misconduct, and accepted the resignations of at least 200 others who were about to be terminated. Nearly 300 additional teachers accused of inappropriate behavior remain "housed" in administrative offices while officials investigate the complaints.
by By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer
In a series of interviews, Superintendent John Deasy chronicled the cases of classroom employees in Los Angeles Unified fired for misconduct over the last 15 months.The following is a compilation of the files, including when the accusation was made and when the teacher was terminated.
Deasy declined to identify the teachers or where they taught but did provide information on the Educational Service Center area where the school is located and, when available, the year the educator was born.
Teachers dismissed by the school board can appeal to a panel composed of an administrative law judge and two educators.
NOVEMBER 2010
- A teacher of handicapped students at a middle school in the North ESC was accused of putting a student on his lap, saying he loved her and making her feed him. The incident was reported by a parent and corroborated by an aide. The teacher, born in 1949, was dismissed by the school board in February 2013. The case took so long to resolve because it included a lengthy police investigation.
JANUARY 2011
- A student at a West ESC middle school reported being struck in the face and eye by a male teacher born in 1955. The instructor was fired in November 2012.
FEBRUARY 2011
- A boy at an East ESC high school went to the school nurse for treatment of cuts and bruises caused by a male teacher. The file includes photographs of his injuries. The teacher was fired in February 2013.
JUNE 2011
- A male teacher at a North ESC elementary school was accused of punching and kicking a student. He was fired in January 2012.
- A teacher at a West ESC elementary school was accused of claiming to be the principal and ordering materials for the school from a company she owned. She was fired in October 2012.
SEPTEMBER 2011
- The district received a report that a teacher assigned to a South ESC high school had previously engaged in sex and drug use with male students in another state. She was fired in 2013.
NOVEMBER 2011
- A female student at an East ESC high school complained of inappropriate advances by a male teac
