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Mark Horton: A Nevada Middle School Teacher Who Compromised His Duty to Teach
Recently, a Las Vegas, a Nevada middle school teacher, Mark Horton, has been accused, by several students and their parents, of compromising his duty to teach, by engaging in lewd and lascivious behavior with young adolescent girls from his classes. According to Curreri and Planas:
Students in Marc Horton's physical education classes at Garside Middle
School called him "Mr. Horton." Other students, however, knew the 27-year-old teacher as "Softball Stud" or by one of his online computer identities,
"sleepiweasel77." Horton's apparent popularity with a handful of 13- and 14-
year-old girls, however, has resulted in his gaining another title: accused sex offender. (Las Vegas Review Journal, June 7, 2005, 1B)
Allegations of improper professional conduct by Horton include improper comments to and touching of these students, both inside and outside the classroom, as well as inappropriate e-mails sent to students, and inappropriate internet chats. It is only fair,...
Still, material evidence, including computer files seized from Horton's home, and copies of e-mails and pictures sent, by Horton to individual students, indicates, based on preliminary investigations at least, that Horton indeed most likely severely compromised his duty to teach, while in pursuit of sexual stimulation and pleasure from minor female middle school students.
In my own opinion, Horton's alleged actions are inexcusable and indefensible. If the accusations against him prove true, Horton has clearly compromised his duty to teach in one of the most heinous ways: by taking sexual advantage, for his own gain, of innocent, impressionable, and defenseless adolescent females who were his students. Due to possible additional risks to the safety of these students, and possibly other female minors as well, I believe that the Clark County School District of Las Vegas took correct action in suspending Horton from teaching, pending…
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