A Washington state principal kept a runaway in school and learning - he even arranged transportation- and all he got for his trouble is arrested:
Mark Evan Brown, 37, principal of Highland Christian School, was arraigned Wednesday. He spent five hours in the Snohomish County Jail before being released on $100,000 bail Wednesday night.According to charging papers, the story begins with Brown and a 14-year-old female...run away.
Brown prepared a little-used room at the school by putting a hide-a-bed and television in the room for her, prosecutors say. He arranged for somebody else to pick her up and bring her to the school, according to charging papers.
Then he got her started on her lessons.
That an educator's commitment to a member of the disenfranchised runaway population has ended in his incarceration is tragic. Maybe one day they'll make one of those uplifting education-themed movies about him. Some akin to To Sir, With Love, about a principal who went out on a limb to guide a student into adulthood and doesn't regret it a bit.
I smell a rat here. So he's harboring the runaway and I presume her family is still wondering where she is. Ummm.. yeah. Okay.
And if I was a betting woman, I'd bet a modest wager that she was getting a little bit of company on that hide-a-bed some nights. Possibly in exchange for Principal not turning her in.
Sorry to be such a cynic, but that's the first thing came to my mind.
Oh you know that Seattle paper just couldn't wait to publish a Christian school rape case...
I am not trying to give the guy a pass..hardly, I just wonder sometimes about media selectiveness in headlines..That is why I keep my subscription up to date on Florida Cracker.
Posted by: csason at July 26, 2008 09:34 AMClick the links, Starla.
Posted by: Donnah at July 26, 2008 10:02 AMSee, I was right. I deliberately did not click te link before I commented. I wanted to test out my theory. (I was also willing to make a complete and total fool of myself.)
As predictable as a daytime soap opera, that story.
