When a school district hires a teacher, all kinds of background checks are required. What happens if the person in the classroom is a local student performing "student teaching" requirements for a teaching certificate?
What happened recently at Stratford High School in Berkeley County suggests such persons may be slipping under the radar. Note that the local rag carefully omits the name of the university the suspect attends. Anyone not Google-challenged can affirm it as Charleston Southern.
"A 23-year-old man interning as a student teacher at Stratford High School has been accused of sexually assaulting a student, authorities say."
"Kendrick Rashard Roach Jr., of Field Pine Avenue in Hopkins, was arrested Monday by Goose Creek police. He is charged with one count of sexual battery with a student 16 or 17 years of age, without force or coercion."
"Roach was a student teacher for the school's physical education program and oversaw the girl's class, according to an affidavit. Police allege he made sexual advances, which included touching her buttocks during class. On Sept. 14, the girl said Roach followed her and a witness to a vehicle in the parking lot after school and got into the back seat. He is accused of touching her inappropriately, exposing himself and asking her to perform oral sex."
"He has not returned to Stratford, according to administrators who learned of the allegations."
Charleston Southern University and the Berkeley County School District need to study this incident carefully. Lawsuits.
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