Hundreds of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers accused of misconduct are spending months in so-called "teacher jail," where teachers still collecting pay but often have nothing to do but read, blog or text.
The measure is the district's response to the sex-abuse scandal that rocked LAUSD earlier this year, when ex-Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt was arrested following widespread accusations of sexual misconduct against 23 students. Berndt was accused of taping young students' mouths shut, blindfolding them and placing large cockroaches on their faces, among other allegations. The case led to the removal of Miramonte's entire staff to break "a culture of silence."
This fall a second teacher, Paul Chapel, was arrested and sentenced to jail for molesting students at Telfair Elementary School.
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