Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Charter School Teacher Starts Fire While At School

As a special education teacher,w e are supposed to teach our students life skills. today, at a charter school within the CCSD, a special education teacher set fire to the copy room, on purpose.
From the Las Vegas Sun: An elementary school teacher was arrested Wednesday after authorities say she intentionally started a fire in the copier room at the school....
Lillian Marino, 47, a special education teacher, is facing two counts of felony arson in connection with the incident. Authorities haven't determined her motive for allegedly starting the fire.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/08/teacher-accused-starting-fire-school-copier-room/
A commentator in the Sun article says this:
don't be quick to judge. Dedicated teacher friend who was disturbed that administration was not present in afternoons (principal took entire staff to 2-3 hr lunches daily..worried about safety of school if something tragic happened with no one in office for the afternoon)...pulled fire alarm to bring attention to the problem. She spent a year complaining to school board ect. prior to taking extreme action. No good deed goes unpunished...she is banned from teaching in the county.
This is not the first time the school has been in the news, from KTNV last year:A principal at a local charter school has been placed on leave in just the second week of school.
Parents say it's a revolving door and they came to Action News for help. Some parents say it's symbolic of the complete disarray at 100 Academy of Excellence. The charter school executive slammed the door in the parents face....

The executive for Imagine Charter Schools Vickie Frazier Williams, won't answer parents questions and when Action News walked in ourselves she wouldn't answer ours.
http://www.ktnv.com/global/story.asp?s=11117204
Sounds like there are some very serious issues with this charter school and I hope either CCSD or the state will do some close investigation of this school.
It also seems that there should be other charges, like child endangerment.
And no, this was not a life lesson to be learned, unless it is a civics course and when you study the criminal justice system.

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