It’s time to play a new track on our favorite Ryan Walters broken record!
Late last week, Woodward Middle School PE teacher Benjamin Hall – it’s always the PE teacher, right? – was charged with seven counts of lewd acts with a minor under the age of 16.
According to his many alleged victims, Hall – who is married to the school principal – would use a meter stick, and sometimes even his hand, to slap the butts of teenage girls. He would also allegedly make a sexually suggestive remark or two. You know, typical perverted middle school PE teacher type of stuff.
The behavior has apparently been going on for a while. If tried and convicted, he risks spending anywhere from three to 20 years in one of our state's totally humane and dignified prisons, which probably explains the sad and terrified face he made in his mugshot:
Although the story is infuriating, and another cog in the ongoing trend of coaches and teachers doing inappropriate things with students, Oklahoma State School Superintendent Ryan Walters has been totally silent on the matter.