Rochester NH teacher in temper tantrum video loses job, not certified

ROCHESTER — A center faculty trainer seen on a video screaming within the face of a pupil and slamming a door earlier this yr is now not employed by the Rochester Faculty District, in response to Superintendent Kyle Repucci. An investigation discovered issues with the district’s hiring of the trainer and reporting of the incident.

The video from the Jan. 31 incident at Rochester Center Faculty circulated broadly locally by way of social media.

The investigation discovered the trainer was not licensed to show in New Hampshire, although he was licensed in one other state, in response to the district. The investigation additionally revealed the district violated an obligation to report the incident in a well timed method to the state Division of Schooling as a consequence of a delayed response by center faculty directors reporting the incident to the superintendent.

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“We’re committing to doing the work essential to appropriate any shortcomings in our hiring course of, in addition to enhance and extra totally outline our insurance policies and procedures,” Repucci mentioned in a ready assertion issued Friday.

Repucci declined an interview for this story, stating the press launch is the district’s full response. Questions despatched to Repucci sought details about the method that led to the uncertified trainer working within the district and different points associated to the reporting of the screaming incident.

The district introduced the departure of the trainer in a press launch issued Friday, explaining the results of an investigation. Repucci was made conscious of the incident Saturday, Feb. 12, in response to the press launch.

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The district employed Complete Investigations and Consulting to conduct the investigation. The trainer was positioned on paid administrative go away pending the result of the investigation, in response to the district.

Faculty district’s disciplinary course of wasn’t adopted

Because of the executive evaluation, CIC decided the trainer violated each Rochester Faculty District insurance policies and New Hampshire Division of Schooling guidelines governing teacher-student conduct — in what CIC decided to be a departure from their in any other case persistently optimistic efficiency critiques, in response to the press launch.

CIC advisable progressive self-discipline, as outlined within the district’s collective bargaining settlement with the Rochester Federation of Academics. Nevertheless, CIC additionally decided the employees member didn’t get hold of correct certification to show in New Hampshire. Whereas the worker is licensed in one other state, the license just isn’t acknowledged in New Hampshire and can’t be transferred to New Hampshire. As CIC discovered that the shortage of licensure can’t be simply remedied, the report in the end concluded that the worker ought to now not work within the Rochester colleges, in response to the press launch.

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“The Rochester Faculty District will — in accordance with the suggestions within the evaluation — undertake deeper scrutiny of future purposes for employment to make sure candidates and new hires are correctly credentialed,” the ready assertion says. “Moreover, the Rochester Faculty District has accomplished a evaluation of all staff’ certifications via which they ensured they’re correct and present.

“The Rochester Faculty District will likewise work to refine its insurance policies and procedures round preliminary reporting of comparable incidents after CIC discovered that constructing directors didn’t all the time fulfill their obligations beneath the state’s Responsibility to Report statute. The Responsibility to Report statute requires a college superintendent to report an incident just like the one which occurred on Jan. 31 to the state.”

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By failing to tell the central workplace of the incident for 13 days, CIC discovered that the constructing administration didn’t adhere to the district’s disciplinary course of, which impaired the district’s means to report the incident to the Division of Schooling in a well timed method. The district, at CIC’s advice, acknowledged it should work to raised articulate its insurance policies and procedures to make sure there are not any gaps in reviewing and reporting comparable incidents sooner or later.

“This evaluation is a crucial first step in serving to our district establish areas the place we should enhance, and starting the method of constructing these enhancements,” Repucci mentioned in a ready assertion.