Teachers Disciplined After Midnight Student Meeting and Cockroach Incident
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Teachers Disciplined After Midnight Student Meeting and Cockroach Incident
- Two teachers faced termination by a school board on December 9 for issues including a midnight meeting with a student and a separate classroom confrontation involving a cockroach.
- The incidents, which led to the teachers' dismissal, involved a middle school in Wellington.
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On December 9, a school board voted unanimously to terminate two teachers following separate incidents. One involved a teacher reportedly meeting a student at midnight. The other issue concerned a classroom confrontation at a Wellington middle school where a cockroach was a factor.
While details regarding the specific “midnight student meet” from the original article are not available in the search results, other instances of teachers meeting students outside of school or engaging in inappropriate contact have led to severe consequences. For example, in July 2026, an Osceola geometry teacher, Hayden Joe Anths, was fired and arrested after being accused of traveling to meet a minor. Similarly, in February 2017, James Bryla, a former Hinsdale Central High School teacher, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal sexual assault for convincing a 16-year-old student to meet him after school in 2011.
Regarding the “cockroach strong-arm” in the classroom, while the exact details of the Wellington incident are not specified in the search results, there have been other cases involving teachers and cockroaches. In December 2025, a teacher in Tondo, Manila, was investigated and faced possible dismissal for allegedly forcing a Grade 7 student to eat a cockroach. This incident reportedly occurred after the student witnessed the teacher molesting another female student. In November 2023, a Jacksonville teacher, Javone Kereenyaga, was fired after posting a video documenting a severe cockroach infestation in her classroom at Lake Shore Middle School. She had reported unsanitary conditions to the administration without resolution, and after attempting to bomb her classroom, she returned to find numerous dead cockroaches. Kereenyaga stated she was fired without a clear reason, and later posted the video publicly.