Posted on 11/23/2010 1:31:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise
A Plant City High School teacher has resigned after acknowledging she bought a "morning after pill" for a student and had inappropriate Facebook conversations with the student's boyfriend.
Ginger Parks, a 17-year teaching veteran, resigned her job Sept. 22, less than a week after she was confronted with the allegations. She faced firing if she didn't quit, Hillsborough County School District records show.
Parks, who taught English, also was the school's cheerleading coach. She at first denied any misconduct, the district reported, but changed her story when district investigator Andrew J. Rouleau told Parks he had 40 pages of printouts of her Facebook conversations furnished by the boy's father.
According to Rouleau's report contained in district records, Parks acknowledged:
* Furnishing an emergency contraceptive, often called the morning after pill, to a boy, who gave it to his girlfriend after they had unprotected sex following the October 2009 homecoming dance. The contraceptive is available without a prescription to adults, the report said.
* Having Facebook conversations with the boy that were laced with four-letter words and other inappropriate dialogue. In one she wrote that "a teenaged boy's sex drive doesn't come close to mine." In another she wrote she thinks about having sex with everyone she sees.
* Attempting to meet a student – the report isn't clear if it is one of the students in the contraceptive pill incident -- at Alderman's Ford Park in rural East Hillsborough County.
* Changing a grade as a "favor."
Parks could not be reached Friday for comment.
"It's completely inappropriate," said Linda Cobbe, spokeswoman for the school district. "A teacher should never provide any student with any kind of medication that is not provided by the student's parents to the school."
Cobbe also criticized the Facebook comments: "It seemed like too close of a relationship. A teacher and a student should never have that type of conversation, ever."
The girl's mother brought the allegations to the school district's attention in September after her daughter complained Parks used profanity toward her during a chance encounter at a Plant City restaurant, the report states. Parks asked the girl if she had been spreading rumors about the teacher, it says.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office declined to prosecute for lack of evidence of a crime, the school district's report said.
The students' names were removed from a copy of the report provided to TBO.com.
2009 Slut Champion !
...with 1979 hair.
Not Guilty.
Pervert teachers have a career option with the TSA
He’d hit it.
I am so sick and tired of reading about these out of control teachers. I never had these female teachers hit on me. I feel left out and seriously depressed over the matter.
Y’know. It’s not too late to go hit on some lonely teachers. They seem to be so lonely and could use a more age appropriate friend.
I agree. It's a tremendous injustice that this sort of thing was not available to me. Somebody ought to be sued, somewhere.
and they make you do it over and over again until you get it right
What is going on in this world?
What is going on in this world?
Wake up! You’re dreaming again.
Al Baby has been suspended for inappropriate behavior. Serves the potty mouth right.
She reminds me of Betty White.
She reminds me of Betty White.
Not the ear rings the one on her neck silly
What were they thinking in the 70’s? I was born in 1976 and when I see the old movies/shows I can help but be in shock over how hideous the clothes were! I liked the way people wore their hair,but the color combinations of the clothing were ugly as sin.At least the guys wore their pants the correct way!
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