To whom it may concern: please read...

Here is a copy of an email that I sent to my daughter's teacher yesterday.

Mrs. Bingham,

This email is to let you know that Rachel will not be at school Dec. 1-3 because Mr. K**** is the substitute. I will not allow her to be in the same classroom with him. I have reasons to believe that he is "grooming" young girls at our school much the same as a child predator would, and I have to protect my child. I am sure that as a teacher you have taken a training all about grooming and are well aware of what I am talking about. If not, then go here and it will help you understand better.

http://www.amw.com/features/feature_story_detail.cfm?id=730
http://sexual-abuse.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_pedophiles_groom_victims

Here is my experience with Mr. K****: When my oldest daughter Meghan was in 2nd grade she was in Mrs. S********'s class and that was the year that she had her baby and had several subs over the course of a few months. Meghan would come home talking about how great Mr. K**** was and I wasn't worried until she started bringing home trinkets and other little toys that he had given to her for "being so good". These toys were always things that I thought were just dumb, but in hindsight, they were just the sort of thing that Meghan would've liked. For him to know this, he would have had to have several conversations with her about what she liked. That seems hard to do for someone who is supposed to be teaching a whole class of students. A few times he even gave her money to "buy a treat in the lunchroom", he wrote a note to her once and left it in her desk after she had missed a few days for being sick and told her in the note that he "missed her and hoped she was feeling better". Each time I got more and more concerned, but I didn't want to make a fuss. The final straw was the day that she was late meeting Rachel to walk home after school because Mr. K**** had asked her to stay in the classroom ALONE with him so that he could tell her how much he appreciated her being so good. When she and Rachel did get home and the story came out, I immediately got on the phone and called Mr. V******. I told him of my concerns and how I felt it was highly inappropiate for ANY teacher to be ALONE with a student let alone a MALE teacher with a young GIRL. He assured me that he would talk to Mr. K**** about it and that was the end of our conversation. I never followed up with him and I probably should have, but I also had a baby and life got hectic. I made sure and told my girls though, that if he ever subbed in their class that they were to call me immediately and I would come and pull them out of school. Meghan had told me that he had asked her our address, what color her room was, and all about our family. These are questions that NO substitute needs to know.

Fast forward to this last spring when the girls were in soccer. During one of Rachel's games, a few parents were discussing Mr. K**** and how they didn't like him based on how he treated their sons. One of the moms spoke of how he was rude and mean or sometimes just ignored the boys in the classrooms that he subbed in, but yet was super friendly and affectionate to the girls. Then she told of how once she had been there to volunteer and he was subbing. She left for a moment and came back to get her things only to witness Mr. K**** ALONE in a classroom with a couple of girls from the class he was subbing for while the rest of the class was at their prep class. Once again, he was ALONE with young girls when supposedly he had been told it was inappropiate. This mother's husband said that he had spoken with Mr. V****** also asking what could be done to not have Mr. K**** substitute at our school and was told "it couldn't be done". He said that he wrote a letter to the district expressing his concerns to them. I don't know anything further on that because soccer ended and I wasn't able to talk with those parents again.

Clearly, Mr. K**** is following a pattern. I am not being critical of you for choosing him to be your substitute. I am being critical of the fact that what he is doing is wrong and no one at our school is doing anything about it. I know that he did these same things at S*** ******* Elementary and because of teacher complaints, he has been banned from ever substituting there again. In fact, I personally spoke with Mrs. H*** the principal, and told of her of my experience with him. She knew about me because my friend was the PTA president there last year and my friend told her she should talk to me.

Please understand that I share all of this with you so that if you were not aware of concerns that parents have for this substitute, then you will know now. Also, if you could please gather all the work that Rachel will need for those 3 days and send it home with her so that she can work on it at home with me, I would appreciate that. Thanks so much for all you do for Rachel. She really enjoys being in your class. And thank you for reading this email.

Sincerely,
Jana S*****


So folks....what do ya think? Am I being too overprotective or am I doing the right thing. By the way I sent that email to the principal (Mr. V******) also. I am hoping to get a response from him. All Rachel's teacher responded with was three sentences. "I didn't know. I will not use him again. I understand why you feel this way." I didn't really expect more than that, because frankly I don't think she likes me or my daughter. That's not really the point. The point is that she needed to be informed and for some reason I felt like the principal just wasn't letting any of the teachers know about any complaints regarding this substitute.

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I have to put this on here....

You all need to go to Youtube and check out my BFF's little boy in the video that she shot of him! It is great! I have personally seen it live and I know just how funny it is! Here's the deal: If you have seen High School Musical 2, then you know who Troy (Zac Efron) is. Anyway, Porter dances the EXACT same moves that Troy does in one of the musical numbers from the movie. He's even singing along, but you can only hear that some of the time. He is 4 years old and one of the FUNNIEST kids alive!

So here is the link:
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