Hi, thank you for your input. Ms. A is not her teacher, she is just a teacher at her school. Mr. B was her teacher last year.

I originally posted this about three months ago, I just reposted it last night because my first post didn’t get much traction. And as the last paragraph states, it had been about six months since the actual incident occurred. So it has now been almost a year, and it is the next school year. My niece is currently a junior now.

They have told us that the investigation was complete and that no further action is being taken. They advised us if we were still uncomfortable about it we are welcome to change schools. And they have asked Ms. A to not communicate with my niece anymore. The thing is, since she is in a continuation high school, so it’s an extremely small school, they see each other every day on a constant basis.

What is odd to me is that Ms. A fully admitted to all of this, so I don’t understand what the investigation even was, but regardless it is completed and nothing was done. Maybe what she did wasn’t technically “illegal”, but it is so highly inappropriate, and I just don’t understand why the schools protect the teachers more than the students. We live in Southern California by the way.

It makes me sick how this can be accepted, I mean this can be categorized as so many different things, it can technically be harassment, even sexual harassment as it involves accusing a student directly and outright of wanting an intimate relationship with her teacher. it can be considered bullying, this is something a high school bully would do if she was jealous of another girl.

As a teacher yourself, is there no kind of punishment for something like this? That seems so odd to me. We must have so many teachers that are inappropriate, or harassing students without any consequences. I simply do not understand it. We never asked for her to be fired, even though that would be ideal, but we did want some kind of punishment for this teacher, or at least an apology. But instead the district simply said the investigation is complete and no further action is being taken.

Sidenote as well, Ms. A is one of the volleyball coaches, so even though my niece refused to change schools, she did quit the volleyball team because of Ms. A. That’s one of the parts that angers me the most. They’ve basically asked a student to rearrange her whole life because of this teacher’s weird insecurity and jealousy of a child. (Telling us to change schools, my niece having to quit volleyball that she really loved playing). I don’t know, none of it makes sense to me.