FLORIDA
Palm Beach Post
By Andrew Marra – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, Aug. 22, 2016
BOCA RATON — At Saint Andrew’s School, no rules barred student-teacher sleepovers, a school-commissioned report released to parents Friday says. Faculty members received little training about child abuse. The student handbook said little to nothing about sexual harassment.
The lax rules and poor training helped to enable a teacher’s months-long pattern of “inappropriate” behavior with boarding students at the Boca Raton Episcopal school, including sleepovers, long embraces and late-night excursions, concludes the report by New Hampshire attorney David Wolowitz.
No evidence of sexual misconduct has been found, but the report criticizes the school for exposing students to “potential abuse” and says it failed to comply with a law requiring that child abuse concerns be reported to state authorities.
While the investigation blames several administrators for failing to report the former teacher’s actions, others call it an indictment of the school’s top leaders and board of trustees, whose members include Bishop Peter Eaton of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, a non-voting member.
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