Every teacher who wrote a letter praising and defending this child rapist should be fired.
Any teacher who cannot comprehend that a grown man raping a 13 year old boy is an abomination that cannot be treated lightly, and that whatever you THOUGHT you knew about the rapist was wrong, is unfit to be around children and far too stupid to teach anybody, anything.
If the situation wasn’t so disgusting, some of the letters would read as unitentionally funny. “Neal has done so much for the children beyond his duties...”.
No matter how he acted in front of you for whatever number of years, a man who rapes a child is a MONSTER, completely and totally EVIL to the core, not a nice guy who “made a mistake”. Also, it is very unlikely that this was his only victim, as that would be very unusual for a pedaphile.
I agree with you these “teachers” have shown that they lack the moral and ethical character, let alone common sense and minimum intelligence to be trusted with anyone’s children.
The School Board voted NOT to fire these teachers