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BOCA RATON, Fl: Episcopal Prep School Teacher Caught in Inappropriate Contact with Students
Probe blasts Florida prep school for failing to protect students from teacher's inappropriate behavior
According to The Palm Beach Post, administrators at St. Andrew's School looked the other way last year as one teacher seemed to have inappropriate relationships with four students despite repeated warnings.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 21, 2016
A scathing report reveals administrators at a prep school in Palm Beach County failed to protect students from a teacher who had developed a pattern of having students over for secret sleepovers, private embraces and late-night excursions.
According to The Palm Beach Post, administrators at St. Andrew's School looked the other way last year as one teacher seemed to have inappropriate relationships with four students despite repeated warnings.
After conducting its own inadequate investigation, the school hired an outside firm to conduct an independent probe, according to the report.
The findings of the report by New Hampshire attorney David Wolowitz were released to parents Friday.
The report is critical of the all-boys Episcopal school in Boca Raton for failing on numerous occasions last year to investigate "significant evidence" of misconduct by the former teacher with three teenage students.
The former teacher has not been charged with a crime, and the school's own investigation found no evidence of sexual misconduct, according to The Palm Beach Post.
But what was found in the independent report was a pattern of a teacher having inappropriate contact with students, which included having them over for sleepovers at his on-campus apartment.
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