Showing posts with label Chicago Sun-Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago Sun-Times. Show all posts

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Principal-teacher tryst captured months ago - by secret camera concealed in principal's office

Is the release of the school sex DVD timed to sway board vote?
Investigators Friday were trying to determine if the person who planted a hidden camera in a Lynwood principal's office, capturing two months of sexual romps, was trying to manipulate the outcome of next Tuesday's school board election.

Sandridge Elementary Principal Leroy Coleman resigned, citing health problems, and teacher Janet Loften resigned, citing a family illness, after school officials confronted them about their activities in a 2½-hour DVD that surfaced this week.

The video, apparently made with a camera hidden in the ceiling of Coleman's office, captures a mostly clothed couple in a variety of positions and in an assortment of sexual acts, including some at the edge of a desk covered with carefully stacked papers. A second woman also appears on the video separately with Coleman, according to officials who saw the DVD.

John Izzo, attorney for Sandridge School District 172, noted that the sex romps were recorded in December and January, but the DVD didn't start to appear in mailboxes of the media and parents until Wednesday.
This from the Chicago Sun-Times.
Video from CBS2Chicago.com.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Teen who wants to wear anti-gay T-shirt takes battle to court

A Neuqua Valley High senior has gone to federal court seeking the right to wear an anti-gay T-shirt to school next month on the day after a national event in support of gays is scheduled in schools.

Heidi Zamecnik, 17, is asking the court to order her school and Indian Prairie District 204 to allow her to express her anti-gay beliefs on April 19, the day after the 11th annual "Day of Silence'' is scheduled to protest harassment of gays in schools.

According to the Web site http://www.dayofsilence.org students and teachers across the country plan to observe the day in silence "to echo'' the silence that gay students face all the time.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of Heidi and an NVHS freshman did not state what written message they planned to wear on T-shirt.

This from the Chicago Sun-Times.