Teacher accused of selling kid’s jacket [on eBay]

AP ^ | May 06, 2007

[jdm]

After finding a seemingly identical coat, she noticed that the seller was from Hillsboro.

Insane story, but a very smart, observant woman...

“She [the teacher] denies stealing the coat, saying she got it from a lost-and-found,”

This teacher probably resells everything from the lost-and-found!!!!

[jdm]

Who-needs-to-sell-cheap-coats-on-eBay-when-yer-makin’-$70G-per-year ping!

[Fido969]

Well, if she wasn’t a poor underpaid teacher then she wouldn’t have to be selling her students’ coats.

[bannie]

Stupid, evil woman.

That said, I want to know where those $70G jobs are.

[tina07]

Hillsboro, Jackson..is it New Jersey? Not in the article where the town is, and the article is from an ISTANBUL paper??

[bannie]

That must not be the AVERAGE pay? I’m guessing it’s the TOP pay—30 years plus other duties????

[martin_fierro]

GUILTY (from other thread)

[Vigilanteman]

Logan’s salary is nearly $69,000 a year, and she has taught 20 years at two elementary schools.

How do you expect the teacher to make it working nine months for a measly $69K after twenty years experience? The mother is obviously undertaxed and the teacher is entitled to sell things from the lost and found to make up the shortage in her income!

[rawhide]

This teacher probably resells everything from the lost-and-found!!!!

The authorities need to look at her other auctions for sure. Maybe some other parents will be coming forward with claims against this teacher?

There is an news update to this story here with a video of her appearance in court last Friday, pleading not guilty: Link

Her supporters were wearing purple ribbons, what is up with that? Is this like a purple heart for wounded teachers?

Here is a link to the auction of the little girl's coat: Link

[elli1]

That must not be the AVERAGE pay? I’m guessing it’s the TOP pay—30 years plus other duties????

Teacher is 41 yrs. old. 20 years teaching. Probably close to average pay, I'm guessing.

[Oztrich Boy]

It appears to be in Oregon

[aruanan]

Logan’s salary is nearly $69,000 a year,

No, it's $69,000 for about 9 months.

[mware]

Finding something in lost and found does not mean it belongs to you. It is still stealing.

Our school does have an end of the year policy, for lost and found. The articles of clothing not picked up are given to a womens shelter.

We do however send out letters to the parents asking them to drop in and check lost and found before we send them off.

[Ditter]

What kind of person buys their childrens clothes on e-bay? Is this common? Wouldn’t you want to see the coat and try it on the kid check for wear etc?

[mware]

I am not sure what state she teaches in but I have been teaching for 26 years (NJ)and just reached 69K.

[patton]

Children’s clothes on Ebay are probably the secret engine of the economy.

[tje]

9 months at best.. Oregon has the minimum number of school days that the government allows. At least the schools did when I lived there.

Seemed there were ‘in service’ days all the time..

[Ditter]

I am so out of it, I thought the secret engine was the DSW Shoe Wearhouse.

[patton]

Leda designed children’s clothes and sold them on ebay, before she went back to teaching.

It is a huge market.

What is DSW?

[Ditter]

DSW is a huge serve yourself shoe store (mens and womens). You walk up and down isles of stacked shoe boxes, try them on standing up and then take your choices to the cashier.