[Spok]

Any male teacher who would be alone with a 15 year old female student should have his head examined.

[dc27]

You are right. One can't take any chances of he said, she said. Also, she could have been failing the class, hence the need for tutoring. He gives her a bad grade and she gets pissed.

[MineralMan]

"Any male teacher who would be alone with a 15 year old female student should have his head examined."

Bingo! That's one way to make sure nothing happens and that if nothing happens nobody can say it did.

[TheBattman]

At minimum, this teacher is guilty of bad judgment. At worse, he needs to be castrated and hung from a tree....

But seriously, if he is guilty, he deserves anything the law can throw at him. Unfortunately, if he is not guilty of the charges, his career is still likely over. Certainly he is done at that school:

If he is not convicted, school officials would determine whether there was a faculty position for Mr. Masengill, said Judy Denman, the district's director of human resources.

[Richard Kimball]

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