Internet Boundaries

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Web sites cross teacher-student lines

A handful of teens posted messages about grades, extracurricular activities and substitute teachers on an embattled Jackson Middle School teacher's personal Web site in the months before she was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

The teens, who identified themselves from Titusville or anonymous Florida locations like "SomeWhere," freely commented on Janet Lea Hughes' MySpace.com page. Several more were listed as "friends" on the page.

Internet experts say social networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com ease conversations between students and teachers. But the technology usually does not push adults over the student-teacher line.

"A professional educator does not cross those boundaries in physical space and they do not cross them in virtual space," said Dianne Lynch, dean of Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, N.Y. "When you are a professional, you are a professional. Sometimes we overestimate the power of technology."

Aide

Former Teacher's Aide Charged With Sex Crime

A 44-year-old former teacher's aide was charged with aggravated sexual assault early Tuesday.

Enrique Gil Martinez was being held in the Bexar County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bond.

According to a police affidavit, a 19-year-old man went to police March 7 to report a sexual relationship he had with Martinez when the suspect worked at Nimitz Middle School.

The man told police that Martinez molested him more than 100 times over a period of five years, beginning when he was 13, the affidavit stated.

Assisted to Jail

Teacher's assistant accused of sex with student

At Jefferson Davis High School -- a school of a few thousand teens -- some knew Jose Guadalupe Mondragon as a charmer.

Jose Guadalupe Mondragon is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
“A lot of girls wanted to go (out) with him,” one student said.

Now the 26-year-old teacher’s assistant is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student. The Houston school district said detectives pulled him from class and arrested him. The school district said it learned of the incident after one of the girl’s friends told a teacher that it happened at her home.

Bus Driver, Aide & Drugs

School bus aide, driver are indicted over drugs

A grand jury in Monmouth County indicted a school bus aide and the driver yesterday on charges they gave more than just rides to high school students in Middletown.

The indictment charged the aide, Parrish Jones, 36, of Keans burg, with a number of drug-related crimes, including giving methadone to a 15-year-old stu dent, who went into respiratory distress and lost consciousness after ingesting the drug, Mon mouth County Prosecutor Luis Va lentin said.

Teachers Aide

Teacher's aide arrested for child pornography

The FBI says a teacher's aid in the Solvay School District is arrested on child pornography charges. Anthony Glinski Jr., 32, is charged with one count of possession of child pornography.

The school superintendent is not commenting on the arrest, but a news conference has been scheduled for later today. We'll bring the details from the news conference as soon as they become available.