A group of Cleveland-area teachers was investigated by both police and their school district for inappropriate discussion about an explicit photo of a female student at their school—which may have been taken by one of their fellow teachers.
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In the end, according to WOIO-TV, “Rocky River Police Department declined to file charges against six teachers accused of talking about a student inappropriately,” though there’s still an ongoing investigation with the school department.
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The incident, reported last Friday, included video footage of two male teachers discussing the photo in question.
As a teacher on the video relayed, it was a “beaver shot” that a fellow teacher said he was trying to send to him, though the teacher trying to send the video claimed it wasn’t working.
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“I’m not above being a pervert, but I’m not going there,” the teacher who was the intended recipient of the photo said to his colleague.
“Why’d he send it to you?” his colleague wondered.
“Cause he thinks it’s acceptable, I guess,” the first man said, “I mean, you know. I mean, I had her in class. We had conversations where he said, ‘Uh, she’s smoking hot, I think she’s the best in the school, I said oh yeah she’s…”
“Who’s this?” the other sought to clarify.
He went on to assess that while she was “not much of a student,” they both confirmed her attractiveness with each other.
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The first teacher went on to note the impropriety involved, saying, “You know I was so upset about this because legally we gotta go to Winton,” referring to school principal Rob Winton. “It would be a terrible way for us to end our career,” he said, realizing that the allegations about the nature of the photo and how it might have been taken would have necessitated an investigation.
The incident has Rocky River School District Superintendent Michael Shoaf heated
“I’m disgusted,” Shoaf said to the TV station’s news team in a recorded statement. “I’m shocked, and as the father of a teenage daughter in this district, I’m angry; what was stated by these staff members was not only inappropriate and unprofessional, it was offensive.”
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Shoaf went on to clarify that if a student’s safety is in question, “staff members are obligated to report the situation to the proper individuals. The superintendent said if the investigation finds that the staff members failed to act appropriately, disciplinary action will be taken.”
Police, however, determined in their investigation, after interviewing teachers and other witnesses and viewing text message threads, “no evidence of student pictures or inappropriate discussions about students.”
*First Published: March 29, 2021, 1:01 pm
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