For years, a dedicated procession of education reporters at Voice of San Diego have been digging into the Pandora’s Box of local teacher misconduct.

Jakob McWhinney:

What they’ve found is case after case (after case after case) in which districts and schools either ignored complaints against teachers or allowed them to quietly retire. The above stories are just a fraction of the work we’ve done on this subject

But despite our work on teacher misconduct, frustratingly little seems to have changed. Teachers accused of inappropriate behavior often skate away with few consequences, if they’re removed from classrooms at all. Typically, teachers are transferred to new schools or are allowed to retire or resign, but those agreements often come with stipulations that a district not disclose any of the behavior that led to the teacher’s departure. 

That was the case in the latest story we reported: As part of a nationwide investigation into teacher misconduct, Business Insider reporter Matt Drange obtained documents that he shared with Voice detailing complaints going back years against San Diego Unified middle school teacher Bruno Schonian

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