This double-shot of news out of Columbus dovetails nicely with our cover story this week, a deep-sea excavation into Ohio’s troubling proliferation of teacher-student sex scandals.
According to the Dispatch, a pair of teachers from a Columbus middle school are in hot water because they had sexy-time on school property while they were supposed to be teaching The Giver or going over multiplication tables. Not to be outdone in stupidity, another district teacher is about to be 86’d from her job for letting students have their own group sexy-time under her classroom supervision.
The love affair between Anne E. Fulkert, a 29-year-old special ed teacher, and Jeffrey Poulton, a 43-year-old principal trainee, went on all last school year at Yorktown Middle School, the paper reports.
The two not only had relations during school hours (Fulkert told investigators the pair were “making out at school all day between periods and during lunch duty,” when the principal was off campus), but, disturbingly, the two used students as love-mail couriers. Because the most obvious thing to do when you’re having an illicit affair at work is create a paper trail, Fulkert and Poulton articulated their passion in these documents.
“You are looking rather distracting again today. I better keep myself focused!” and “I need some more tongue!”, Poulton — a grown-ass man, we’d like to point out — actually wrote.
This article appears in Aug 22-28, 2012.
It goes without saying, but there is way, way too much of this garbage going on right now. I don’t understand when teachers all of a sudden decided they could keep sleeping with students a secret, but the only kind of person who would seriously think that is an idiot. So the only explanation here is the next generation is full of idiots, and the current hiring managers for school districts are also idiots. Yes, yes, I understand you really can’t sniff out who is going to sleep with students when you hire them. Maybe try not hiring stupid skanks?