Posted on 02/17/2006 4:57:04 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
School Says Kids Paid Teacher Cash To Skip Gym
POSTED: 2:46 pm EST February 16, 2006
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A gym teacher at a Florida middle school may have found an unusual way to supplement his income.
Officials in Pensacola said he let kids skip his class if they paid him $1 a day.
Authorities said Terence Braxton took the payments between September and December, and that he may have collected thousands of dollars.
Escambia County School District spokesman Ronnie Arnold said the principal of Ward Middle School learned of the scheme from a parent and began an investigation in December. The principal then contacted authorities and placed Braxton on administrative leave. Braxton then resigned.
Braxton was being sought on bribery charges. He turned himself in Thursday.
Those charges accuse him of taking about $230 from a half dozen students. But a sheriff's spokesman said his take from sixth- to eighth-grade boys and girls was probably much greater.
Detectives had been looking for Braxton after he apparently left the area.
After his resignation, Braxton taught some classes as a substitute teacher at the Atmore School District in Alabama. That district removed Braxton from its substitute list after Florida officials notified administrators of Braxton's history.
Damn! And in my hometown, too.
Gym was always an easy A. Too bad my chem and trig teachers didn't offer this deal. I would have cashed a few savings bonds for that.
Quality quality quality
This teacher was being wholly unfair to the underpriviledged. I demand a bill be introduced to subsidize poor, lazy kids who would like the opportunity to bribe their teachers.
Public Schools stike again.
The teacher should have shared his wealth with his fellow union members.
Another fine and upstanding member of the NEA.
Yeah, I lived in Pensacola and now just across the bay in AL. I would bet that there is no other city in the country the size of Pensacola that has had its name in the National news as often, and usually for negative news.
Clinic bombings
Murders the one where the two boys killed dad and were hidden by the homosexual neighbor.
Abortionist's killed
crooked county commission (4 out of 5 indicted might be some per capita record)
teachers sex with students
locker room sex assault with the football team and the special needs girl. etc etc.
The highlight of the city's economic planning is to build a baseball field downtown and sink and old aircraft carrier. Of course everyone knows something stinks on main street and their trying to move the sewage plant.
Pensacola Place, would a made a great TV show but heck it's all real
You left out the most important fact of all. Pensacola is where the Texas Rangers captured Texas gunslinger John Wesley Hardin.
Ted Bundy was captured in Pensacola too.
LMAO! Good point!
Must be those snow white beaches that attracts them. I think the north coast of Florida has the prettiest beaches I've ever seen. California and Hawaii can't hold a candle to them.
Shark attacks.
I just love it.
Now that we have an alternate media. These incidents are finally getting reported. In the old days of the old media, no one would have heard of this.
Lunch and gym were my favorite classes.
if this happened in MN , that would be a reality.
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