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Hiring A Superintendent Behind Closed Doors Has A Price

School Board President Kelly Gonez hired the current Superintendent in secret despite him being accused of hiding cases of sexual abuse.

Passing The Trash: “Enabling teachers who sexually abuse students to pursue another job with no record of their sexual misconduct, is common practice for K-12 school district administrators who fear legal liability and tarnished reputations.”

- National Library of Medicine

“Keep This Between Us” is a multi-part documentary about Cheryl Nichols reexamining “her past relationship with a trusted teacher, exposing an epidemic of widespread grooming in U.S. high schools.” In the third episode, “Passing the Trash,” Heaven Rubin gets to tell her story about how she was violated by Jason Meyers, a teacher in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. While Meyers was charged in 2016 with three felony counts of engaging in sex with a minor, his lawyers have managed to delay his trial so that he has not yet faced a trial. He denies the accusations against him.

The most disturbing part about Rubin’s story is that she was not the first person to say that she was victimized by the teacher. The first accusation against him…