Frisco teacher on leave after student gets tattoo
FRISCO, Texas — A teacher in a Dallas-area school district is on paid administrative leave after she allegedly helped a 17-year-old male student get a tattoo.
Frisco school officials say 33-year-old math teacher Brandy Jumper has taught in the district for seven years.
State health officials are reviewing whether the person who did the tattoo, at a house in Little Elm, is licensed and used proper sanitary conditions.
The boy's mother claims the teacher went with the teen to get the tattoo on his back.
Jumper couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Akins High School teacher applied to marry student Mother of 17-year-old accompanied teacher and girl to get marriage license, public records show.
By Molly Bloom AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Wednesday, April 09, 2008
An Akins High School teacher arrested Monday evening and accused of having an improper relationship with a student was planning to marry the girl, according to public records.
Ranulfo "Randy" Arias, 27, drove the 17-year-old student and her mother to apply for a Travis County marriage license Thursday, according to a probable cause affidavit for his arrest.
Arias' lawyer, Hermes Flores, did not return messages left at his Austin law office.
It is the second time in a year that similar allegations have been brought against Akins faculty members. An assistant band director was investigated last year after being accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
Arias, a graduate of Texas State University who was on the university track team, has taught Spanish and coached cross-country runners at the 2,500-student South Austin high school since the 2006-07 school year.
A native of Fredricksburg, Arias previously worked as a high school Spanish teacher in the Northside school district in San Antonio, starting in December 2004 and leaving in good standing in June 2006, a Northside spokesman said.
Arias turned himself in to Travis County Jail officials Monday evening, and his bail was set at $5,000. Jail officials said he was released that evening. If convicted of charges of improper relationship between an educator and a student, a felony, Arias could be sentenced to 20 years in jail. The law says employees at public or private schools may not engage in sexual contact with students "regardless of the age of that person." The school district had placed Arias on administrative leave Friday.
The student told police that Arias first asked her out about the first weekend in March, according to the affidavit. The two went to the movies and met several times at Arias' apartment. They had sexual intercourse several times, the girl told police.
Because of the nature of the case, the American-Statesman is not naming the girl.
Arias took the girl's mother with them Thursday to apply for the marriage license, according to the probable cause affidavit. In Texas, a person younger than 18 applying for a marriage license needs parental consent.
The mother could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but when asked the reason for her daughter's marriage on the county's parental consent form, she wrote, "For love."
What the fuck were these two thinking? Quick, somebody tell Dubya there are WMDs in our schools...
