Seemingly unknown to everyone, except school district personnel departments and former teachers, is that you lose your job automatically for a plea or finding of guilty or for receiving a deferred adjudication on a Class C misdemeanor for Assault-Offensive and Provocative. The word is getting out among students that all you have to do is file a complaint on a teacher or administrator if you do not get your way in school and they are removed!  It is even easier to accomplish if the teacher or administrator is unpopular with central administration, other administrators or with students. The educator gets placed on Administrative Leave with Pay. If the teacher is on a probationary contract the school district can recommend that the teacher’s contract not be renewed without having to wait for a trial that eventually finds her innocent of all charges. The case may even be dismissed after the teacher has already been non-renewed and can no longer remain in the


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profession! An experienced and respected teacher of many years may find herself on Administrative Leave with Pay for a full year while rumors spread as to why she is not in school. Even worse, she is not guaranteed to be returned to her original school when she is found innocent of all charges because many potential child witnesses and their parents may find her ineffective as a teacher—despite the recent Second Court of Appeals ruling against Peaster I.S.D. in February 2000.