Placed on administrative leave by BTW High School. Very few facts and lots of rumors only so far.
Dan Bitson
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Certainly does not sound good
However , innocent until proven guilty
A lot of people will make up stuff nowadays , so hard to just jump to conclusions
I’ve never seen a field reporter constantly look down at the notes on her phone before. Wow.
If it's breaking news and they didn't have time to prepare a canned story beforehand, they do look at notes to make sure they don't miss anything or misrepresent what's happening.
Me personally , I don’t think things like this should ever make the news before someone is proven guilty , how many innocent lives have been ruined all because someone made something up
I don't know, but assuming that this is about potential criminal conduct at school that may harm students (as opposed to say theft), which I don't know, talking just generally about the above point, the far, far, far more common situation is that the issue is kept secret by the school, the teacher quits before they get fired and then gets hired somewhere else where they can keep doing whatever they did the first time.
Also, you can't exactly keep it quiet until someone is proven guilty since if they are arrested, someone probably will notice they're gone. And usually the perp walk is a good clue. you also can't exactly muzzle the victims if they want to tell their stories.
If the teacher/coach was doing something that hurt students, how would you feel if he stayed on the job and hurt your kid, and then you found out that he was being investigated and had been charged, and maybe arrested and was out on bail, at the time he hurt your kid, but the school didn't tell you? I'd be pretty unhappy to say the least.
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I do get what your saying , I’m all for temporary suspension until it was found out that they were guilty or innocent , you absolutely do have to protect the kids , however , on the flip side , how would you like it if some teenager got mad at you one day for any reason and makes something up just to get the teacher in trouble , they are pretty much ruined at that point when they did nothing wrong . I think there is probably a good middle ground here , I just don’t think involving the news at this point is a good idea. I do agree though that you have to protect the kids obviously, but you shouldn’t destroy someone’s life JUST off of an accusation. However , if it is proven they did something , then bring all of the news stations in and expose them
It's a tough situation. Given the choice, schools will usually try to hide teacher misconduct, it looks terrible, especially with parents having more choice of where to send their kids, and it's a permanent stain on a principal's record. I've done some work in this area, the first thing you tell families is, never report to the school, always go straight to the police. Then if you have uniforms show up, it's hard to hide that something's going on. I'm not sure there's any way to finesse it without giving a get out of jail free card for many bad teachers at the expense of students bc secrecy always benefits the teacher/coach. The good news is that if nothing is found, teachers/coaches can go on with their jobs and it usually blows over pretty quickly, that's the benefit of having students leave in 4 years.
I have no idea what's being investigated with Bitson but in the areas where I've worked, there's a name for all this, passing the trash. Schools let teachers quit before investigations get too far and the teacher then gets a new teaching job and does the same thing at a different school, some teachers go to 3, 4 or more schools doing the same thing at each stop.
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