Posted on 10/31/2006 7:43:44 AM PST by SmithL
The boozy party a third-grade teacher and her Stanford University research engineer husband allegedly hosted for their daughter at their Palo Alto home over the weekend has become a fine lesson in how to get in trouble with the law.
Lisa Swagerty, 50, and Richard Stovel, 62, of Palo Alto, were given misdemeanor citations Saturday for contributing to the delinquency of some 40 minors after neighbors complained about drunken teens staggering around the Fielding Drive home, vomiting and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
"There were numerous teenagers in varying degrees of intoxication, some that were very intoxicated, vomiting or sitting down with their heads in their laps, not doing very well," said Palo Alto police Officer Max Nielepko. "What surprised us was that both parents were actually home and theoretically supervising the party. It sounds like they were well aware of what was occurring, and at least to some degree they were condoning or allowing this."
Swagerty is a third-grade teacher at Palo Verde Elementary School in Palo Alto. Stovel, her husband, is an expert in lasers, fluidics and optics development at the Herzenberg Laboratory at Stanford University. Both were involved in the campaign for excellence in Palo Alto schools.
The couple could not be reached for comment, but Nielepko said one of the revelers at their house that night was their daughter, a Palo Alto High School student.
Nielepko said the daughter was joined by 35 to 40 other teens, mostly from Palo Alto High, who were openly drinking beer, vodka and tequila.
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I heard the story on the morning news. These parents are quoted as saying that it was better that this was going on under their supervision. (After all, if you can't trust a third-grade teacher and a rocket scientist, . . .)
That is only a misdemeanor?
Until they step outside, and perhaps get into cars...
Oh, I'll bet they were!
"misdemeanor citations Saturday for contributing to the delinquency of some 40 minors "
WTF
What is the matter with these people and what is the matter with those that actually support or defend them. My sister in law and her were both cops at the time (retired now), and when the teacher got suspended she said it really was too bad the teacher had gotten suspended because she was a good teacher. *rolling eyes*.
Then again, they are dems that voted for Clinton. She teaches bible study and one time I asked her how she rationalizes belonging to a party that supports abortion and defends an adultering president with her religious beliefs. She just shrugged her shoulders and went up stairs with a headache.
At least they weren't having sex with any of the students. AFAWK.
I'm just thinking about my teenage years...
In a neighborhood I lived in before kids, parents next door to me opened their house to teens to party there. They also had six to ten adult monitors to help make sure booze stayed off the property. Once when I was on duty, I decided to go into the woods behind the house/pool area. I found a keg and twenty kids doin' their thing back there. We took the keg and car keys and called parents. But technically, we were all serving booze to underage kids... We could have been arrested.
The parents started hosting the parties at the house after the teens accidently set the State forrest on fire behind their house. Today, being parents, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Zero tolerance and all...parents are outlaws.
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