ELK GROVE, Calif ., July 2, 2009
Teacher Gives Sex Tape to 5th Graders
Home Movie Accidentally Included in DVD of School Year Memories Seen by at Least One Student
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(CBS)
Parents of students who attend Isabelle Jackson Elementary said that the woman is a good teacher, but just made a mistake that may become the most embarrassing moment of their life.
The offending DVD starts with a menu screen that displays various school trips and functions, and when you click on one of them, you see kids in a classroom sharing stories. They start clapping, then the video suddenly cuts to sex.
"It goes from my son, straight to her on the couch," said 'Joe,' who saw the video along with his son and did not wish to be identified. "My son's reaction was, 'Dad, is that Ms. Defanti?'"
"We were up till midnight doing the 'birds and the bees,'" he added.
The person in the video turned out to be Isabelle Jackson Elementary fifth grade teacher Crystal Defanti.
"All she could say was that it was a horrible mix up," Joe said.
The teacher called his home the day after his child got the DVD, crying hysterically, profusely apologizing and asking the man and his wife to call every parent they knew to stop their kids from seeing the DVD too.
The Elk Grove Unified School District says they are investigating, but legal experts say it's unlikely that the teacher will lose her job.
"It's felony stupid, but it's not a crime," said defense expert Ken Rosenfeld. "Is it something that she should be disciplined for? Absolutely, but fired for? She didn't intend for this to happen."
Joe doesn't care if the teacher keeps her job, he'd just like some help from the school.
"Maybe offer some sort of counseling for my children, ask me how my children are doing," he said. "I want somebody to ask me the kind of questions my kids are asking me."
School officials say a new DVD will be sent to students once it has been reviewed.
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- I don't beleive for a minute it was an accident. It is called "comprehensive sex education." That is where you turn our children over to teachers who get to share adult sex with your kids with no taboos. Some teachers are decent and won't abuse the playground. Others are twisted and will abuse your kids. The adult sexual abuse of children in public schools has skyrocketed and we only know a part of it.
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- wtlibss does not seem to be suggesting anything negative towards sex, just saying that our teachers , educators, whatever! Simply do not have any class or respect. I would have to agree, just look at al the cases of teachers who've been prosecuted or accused of various sex acts with students. Based on that you sort of have to be judgemental if you are a teacher who does have pride, respect class, etc. i do think the teacher just may have made a mistake, has nothing to do with being a liberal. End of story. However i do believe this "wtlibss" has a good point, i would have to agree as well liberal minds create more problems & issues in society.
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- It's sad. Good sh*t like this never happened to me when I was a student.
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- ""Maybe offer some sort of counseling for my children, ask me how my children are doing," he said. "I want somebody to ask me the kind of questions my kids are asking me."
School officials say a new DVD will be sent to students once it has been reviewed. "
Seriously? What ever happened to parents owning up to their job of giving their children a talk. Counseling??? I don't think we're going to have a massive cult suicide of elementary schoolers from that school just because they caught a second of their teacher naked. - Reply to this comment
- I don't buy that it was an accident. We're talking recording on a DVD. It's not a VHS. You can't just randomly record over a certain section. I think she was getting her kicks out of it and then realized she could get into a lot of trouble. If it were a man I'm willing to bet he would have already lost his job. I think she should be treated the same/
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- If you had any common sense of a computer it wouldn't really be that hard. You probably have windows right? Go check out windows movie maker, it's just a drag and drop, she probably waited forever to make the DVD then rush to make it and accidently threw in a wrong clip. I've done it with a school project, it just wasn't a clip of me naked on a couch...
- Those who can't do---teach!
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- She needs to be FIRED! I've done allot of editing and for you to edited two videos together, combining videos, you half to purposefully put them together. She must be fired! sorry guys....
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- I don't think this has anything to do with a 'new breed' of teachers, their political persuasion, or their intelligence level.
We have made great advancements in this society, technology in the forefront. With this comes greater responsibility, for all we have gained, we have also lost.We no longer enjoy some of the simpler freedoms, but we have amassed a world at our fingertips.
We can cry and mourn the loss of yesteryear all day, but we can't go back.
So what's my point? Yes - she made an irresponsible error.It was really poor judgment not to preview those DVDs. Should she be made a scapegoat for the failure of the educational system? Should she be fired? No, neither, that's ridiculous. Should she be disciplined and make a formal, public apology? Yes, and I'm sure she will.
The bottom line here; some pubescent children saw sex. Big deal. If you haven't educated your children about sex at this age, you should be disciplined. Lord knows there are far worse evils they are seeing every day. Think for a minute about the violence in tv, movies, video games, and news programs we routinely shrug off. What's more damaging? Sex between two consenting adults or man kills wife and self in apparent suicide-pact. More at 11. - Reply to this comment
- This is why teachers should preview what they send home with students before sending it home to Mom and Dad! As an education major (yup, I'll be a young teacher soon), I don't plan on being this dumb! She's an embarrassment to the profession and is giving the younger generation of teachers a bad name. Intentional or otherwise, she distributed p0rn to a classroom full of minors. Definitely not a good career move. She should quit and move to another district, or lose her license. It's too bad it came to this, but I've heard of teachers losing their jobs for less. Teachers are supposed to be models of good behavior for their students. She fell short big time.
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- Considering many 9 & 10 year olds are already having sex they could probably teach the teacher. Still, she should be fired for the blatant stupidity of her actions. And why the h*ll do people TAPE their sex acts anyway?! So you can remember where to go to the next time around?! My God!
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- For all the parents who are teaching little Johnny to recoil in horror at the sight of this tape, . . don't feel too bad when little Johnny grows up playing with dolls and becomes a ****.
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- I understand many of the fathers of students in the districtt have requested a private meeting with the teacher to clear this matter up.
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- funny how a millisecond glimpse of Janet Jackson's breast created a furor while the distribution of pornography to 10 year olds by THIS woman is downplayed.
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- LOL why are the parents heads cut off?
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- wtlibss -- I'd sure rather have a Liberal point of view on sex than the suppressive, 18th Century view on sex that Conservatives have, that's for sure. You don't like sex very much, do you? Well, let me clue you in...most people, hard to believe I know, actually ENJOY sex. Weird, huh?! There's nothing wrong with sex, if done correctly and safely, and you need to acknowledge that. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the rest of us have to share that viewpoint. Some of us, get this, like sex!
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- May I have a copy of that CD.
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- I just wonder where I can get a copy!
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- Just wait until the DA's office gets their hands on this case. Then it's 40 years in the slammer. Our privatized prison industry needs more "customers".
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- Wtlibss) you as a teacher should know, stopping behaver begins at HOME not up to teacher to tell these kids how to dance & you should know as a teacher if the did these little angels mommys would be knocking down the school door if they did MY CHILD HAS HIS RIGHTS
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- I'm more of a liberal myself but let me tell you some of these kids have no respect, they have no manners, they are veeeery disrespectful if they hit you you cant even hit back come on, some of these kids are bigger than you!!! They got to stop protecting these kids sooo much man
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