As expected, the Lee County School Board voted Tuesday afternoon to fire a helping teacher who failed to notice a 15-year-old girl giving oral sex to a 17-year-old boy at Royal Palm Exceptional Center. Thomas McCoy, a school employee since 1998, challenged his pending termination in court, but a judge also recommended termination.
The board also placed bus driver Sandra Williams, an employee of the school system since 2001, on unpaid suspension. A jury in March convicted Williams of burglary and two counts of battery for a June 2008 incident. She has been on paid suspension since January, and would have been fired Tuesday, but Superintendent James Browder said she requested a formal hearing on the matter.
