February 1, 2008...5:06 pm

RO: Teacher Arrested?

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Just received a news tip that a Red Oak ISD teacher has been arrested for some sort of drug-related issue.

KXAS Channel 5 has supposedly picked up on this.

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  • student at ROISD
    February 1, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    she is a wonderful teacher and i love her……… i had her last year and there is no need to talk about her in bad ways

  • Drtuddle
    February 1, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    student at ROISD,

    I think Joey is just stating facts. She got busted with weed Dude!

    ” Deputies said they arrested Jenny Davis at Red Oak Intermediate School after police found marijuana when searching her Garland home. The fifth-grade social studies teacher was taken into custody the same day the school was promoting its drug awareness campaign” NBC Channel 5 Dallas

    http://www.nbc5i.com/news/15194040/detail.html

  • JustAGirl
    February 2, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    What in the HELL is a 6th grader doing on this website? Seriously.

  • Joey Dauben
    February 2, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    You’d be surprised at the demographics of the readership, JustAGirl.

    I have quite a bit of young people that read this thing.

    Just think this could have been worse: the teacher could have slept with a student.

    Marijuana? Blah.

  • Veteran
    February 2, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    If, indeed, a 6th grade student is reading this blog, what’s the problem? Shouldn’t we support young persons getting involved in their County and communities at an early age?

  • eight ball
    February 3, 2008 at 9:12 am

    Hey folks….reality check time.

    Contrary to popular opinion, teachers are quite human in all respects. Teachers are subject to the same weaknesses, shortcomings, flaws in character that we all have. Teachers all have personalities. Teachers DO have personal lives outside of school and sometimes that personal life may not be what we all think (perception of a school marm?) a teacher’s personal actually is.
    Teachers get caught up in the same issues that “real people” do. This teacher got busted for something quite stupid IMHO.

    This is a HUGE lesson for students! Drugs and a “drug life style” are not discriminating between anyone! They go hand in hand and sometimes knock people to the lowest of lows regardless if they’re a street person or someone we put on a social and traditional pedestal such as this teacher and the constant barrage of “celebreties” either going to detox or checking out of life.

    My son (a ROISD student) tells me that he can get anything, anytime, anywhere in Ellis County. He also tells me that nothing is different in ROISD than in big city districts on the “drug front”. He doesn’t lie, and neither do his friends.

    Drugs do not pick and choose. People pick and choose drugs If we don’t pound THAT lesson home we’re missing the “teachable moment” in this case.

    Where’s the community outrage? ROISD is typically silent…the board could make huge points by going public on this. As usual, we won’t hear anything but a whisper.

  • a ROI mom
    February 7, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    My son told me about Ms. Davis early in the schoolyear and said she was his favorite teacher. I asked him why, and he described her creative teaching methods and thoughtful, imaginative, caring personality. What a shame this has happened — I’m sad that my son is losing an otherwise great teacher, and that Ms. Davis is facing such a public scandal. This is not to excuse her drug use — certainly this is a bad example to students. But the knee-jerk vilification going on in this case is out of scale. People are flawed and complex, and teachers are people. I hope students will have a chance to reflect on this.

  • omg
    February 7, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    sounds like a ROI mom has been drinking the Kool Aid

  • Drtuddle
    February 7, 2008 at 3:16 pm

    I had a hippie teacher in the 70’s. She was pretty cool.

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