Posted on 09/12/2013 5:52:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
Enrollment appears to be nosediving in a Michigan school district where several teachers publicly supported a former colleague who admitted having sex with a middle school student.
The student body count in the West Branch-Rose City district, in northeast Michigan is down unofficially some 87 students following a tumultuous summer in which angry parents blasted seven teachers for writing letters in support of former teacher Neal Erickson. The letters urged a judge to be lenient in sentencing Erickson, who admitted to sexual misconduct with an underage, male student from 2006 to 2009. When the school board declined to take action against the teachers, many parents vowed to pull their kids out of the public schools, which have a total enrollment of just over 2,000.
“I can’t speculate as to why the students have left, but there were certainly parents who vocalized that they were pulling their children out of school because of the teacher’s support,” West Branch-Rose City School Superintendent Daniel Cwayna told FoxNews.com. “We addressed the issue as best we could without infringing upon the teacher’s first amendment rights. There’s only so much we can do.”
Lower enrollment will cost the district under the state's funding formula. And it could get even worse, if other parents simply opt to keep their kids home on Sept. 25, when the official headcount is carried out. The school district stands to lose as much as $600,000 in state funding.
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All of you embedded questions can probably be answered by determining if Harriet Coe is the local NEA representative.
The parents who pulled their kids probably found some other way of educating them.
No pictures, please of the other 40%.
Yes.
theres something VERY VERY wrong about a people who refuse to eliminate those who prey upon children in such a manner, thus the likelihood that most perps will be released at some point to violate yet MORE innocents.
the dead dont commit crimes!
Thanks for the links.
It should be a slam dunk to recall that school board member. Hopefully the large number of parents that are outraged don’t give up on the teachers that not only supported this pervert but set a horrendously bad example for all the students in this district regarding the rule of law.
It blows my mind that they want leniency for this pedophile because “his” family is suffering. It would be nice to believe he’ll spend the full 30 years in prison but that probably won’t be the case.
If the Governor can legally get involved with this due to the loss of funding for this district he should do so, IMO. These teachers supporting this jerk should not be teaching anywhere.
Yep. Sending children to public schools is prima facie child abuse.
In Montana some guy got 30 days and another case elsewhere someone was released on probation or something.
This is getting bad.
Yes..I barely survived it in so. Ca. after a couple of years of drug addiction all starting at Milliken jr. High in Sherman Oaks.
I sense rhe need for a GRAND OVERHAUL of our “Justce System”.
making judgements that convicted perpetrators wont likely abuse AGAIN....is not sound thinking....
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