Jan
2010
It would seem that James Madison High School in Midwood, Brooklyn is living up to its new nickname as “Horndog High”.
Allegations have surfaced against 37-year-old gym teacher Lisa Guttilla of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl at Poly Prep Country Day School where she worked part time as a volleyball coach. She also worked at James Madison High School in Brooklyn as a gym teacher.
The accusations arose after the teenager’s mother began questioning her about a hickey on her neck. The teenager eventually confessed to three sessions of fondling with Ms. Guttilla between Jan. 4th and 9th. The complaint filed in Brooklyn Criminal Court has the teacher charged with misdemeanor sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of child and states that she did “touch, grab, squeeze and kiss the [girl] about the breast and buttock.”
Ms. Guttilla has been reassigned her to a job that teachers under investigation go to while being investigated. She may encounter some familiar faces there as this is the third teacher sex scandal in two months for James Madison High School. The first involved two teachers, Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro, being caught by a janitor while making out in a classroom during a school talent show. The second incident involved a social studies teacher named Allison Musacchio who was discovered to have made over 200 calls and texts to a male student at the school. She was discovered after the ex-girlfriend of the student spotted the boy’s phone number on the teacher’s cell phone.
Either there is a serious problem at this school, or else students are finding a way to attack their teachers. Accusations of this magnitude are a serious situation, but in all of the teacher sex scandals I’ve documented, I’ve never seen a concentration like this in one school. Something is beginning to smell a might funny about all of this.


Sarah L. Tolzien, a former English teacher and cross country coach at
Another year has come to close, and has become tradition around here, it’s time to take a look at the top 10 posts for the past year.

Public schools across the United States are closed for the winter holidays, but apparently not all teachers are done seeing their students.
Well, for once the teachers were at least not going after the students, instead,they were going after each other.
A special education teacher’s aide in Michigan has been arrested for having “sexual relations” with three separate students.
The problem for the school district is that this is the second employee brought up on sex charges in two weeks. The earlier one was Brian C. Drake, the district’s theater coordinator, was charged with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a student. He is accused of having sex with a female senior during the 2008-2009 in the Waterford Kettering High theater.
Hard to believe it, but this is the 2000th post on this blog.


Well, that didn’t take long.
A mother who gave up her son for adoption years ago, began reconnecting with him over the Internet, and now she stands accused of committing incest with him.
It seems Houston, Texas schools wanted to make sure their students had heard of “sexting” by banning it.
Well, it isn’t just teachers in the United States that have inappropriate relationships with their students.
You know, I may be scratching my head for quite some time over why a Chicago radio station felt the need to collect images of teacher sex scandals in to a photo gallery on its web site.


