Waterloo Teacher Arrested
I came across this article when I was looking up the news the other day. According to this article 52-year-old teacher Larry Twigg has been arrested for committing illegal acts with a 17-year-old boy. Twigg was a high school teacher at Waterloo West HIgh School He was charged for persuading or coercing the boy to disrobe in order to arouse the teacher. Twigg is now in jail on bond for $25,000. This comes to a surprise to a lot of the students in this area. One of my friends who graduated from this High School thought he was a great teacher. I was mainly curious if anyone in this class had known the teacher? I am also curious if more kids will come out and admit to similar things happening with the teacher? There are a lot of repercussions from this case for Mr. Twigg. Besides losing his job he will also not be allowed to live near a school to say the least. This is certainly a tragic case for a lot of people in the Waterloo community and the repercussions will leave a devastating effect on the school. It just shows another way how psychology spreads in such a wide way.
http://www.wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_4792bd76-104c-11df-bddf-001cc4c03286.html
I did attend and graduated from West High School so i am very familiar with who Mr. Twigg is. In my years there i did have him as a teacher for a basic computers class and while he was very weird in his own way i dont think that anyone i knew would have suspected to hear this about him. We did have another incident involving the softball coach having sex with one of his players but the girl never pressed charges and the administration just released him of his duties due to parent's outrage. But back to the case with Mr. Twigg i believe the kid is just as much at fault as the teacher is because he used this as an oppertunity to earn some cash and pass the class. While ones motive was money anothers was sexual arousal, which is very disturbing that such a person slips through the cracks and ends up working in a school. I pretty sure Mr. Twigg has been at West High for many years and who knows how many times he has done this and it turely is sickening. He knew what he was doing was wrong and he must have been aware of the consequences if he ever got caught so i hope he get all that he deserves and never gets the oppertunity to be around kids again.