He resigned from the district while facing termination proceedings, but his teacher license was not revoked until three years later. The case is among more than 1,100 statewide in which educators' romantic overtures to students and other sexual improprieties have led to investigations by the State Board for Educator Certification, according to a review of 9,000 cases. And sexual improprieties, most often with children, were the leading cause of punitive action taken against teachers in Texas. Sex-related cases made up nearly a third of pending accusations and nearly half, or 226 out of 476, of the cases in which punitive action was ordered. One in four complaints of sexual improprieties resulted in punitive action, including reprimands, suspensions and revocations of certification, records show.
Pedophiles tend to go where there are children.
At least eight female teachers had sexual affairs with students ranging in age from 13 to 17, the records show. Several women and more than two dozen men, some of whom still have their teaching certificates, are among the state's 27,247 registered sex offenders. Burglary and theft allegations, many of them hot-check charges, topped the list of complaints filed with the state board, making up 1,930 of the 9,130 cases, or about 21 percent. Only about 2 percent led to punitive action. Nonsexual assault cases and drug or alcohol allegations ranked closely behind, making up about 20 percent each of the total complaints.