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Community members urge board to support teacher cleared by district investigation; board says legal process limits comment
Summary
Teachers, students and union leaders urged the board to publicly support a temporarily-leave teacher they said had been cleared by the district’s investigation and then subjected to online harassment; the superintendent replied that legal and personnel processes limit what district officials can publicly disclose.
Multiple community members and district educators used the Oct. 13 public-comment period to urge the board to publicly support a teacher who speakers said had been falsely accused and subjected to threats and doxxing.
Cookie Sinclair, a teacher in the district, described the effects she said the incident had on a colleague: “She was falsely accused. … She had been cared to assassinated there. They posted my elderly aunt and uncle's … address online. There were so many threats of physical violence that she had to get a legal protection order,” Sinclair said during public comment.
Mary Mendoza Hensel, president of the Battle…
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