And the results are in....

I apologize for taking so long to post my investigative reporting.  So I interviewed 20 former students of Randy Turner aka William Turner the last two weeks to try and discover if any of the allegations brought up by Joplin Schools had some merit to them.  Here are the questions and the results to those questions:

1.  Did you consider Randy Turner a good teacher? 16 out of 20 students said they considered him a good teacher.  They said they were able to learn a lot from his class and that he was very engaging as a teacher.

2.  Do you think Randy Turner favored female students as opposed to male students?  20 out of 20 students said they felt Randy Turner favored the female students more than the male students.  They even said that he favored male students who displayed female characteristics more than those who were more masculine (those are my words not theirs).  One student gave me an example of how he copied his girlfriend's homework word for word and while she received an A; he received a C.  When he asked Randy Turner why his homework was given such a low grade, Mr. Turner gave several reasons why the grade was a C but none had to do with copying.

3.  Did you ever witness anything that was questionable in regards to Randy Turner and female students?  14 out of 20 said they witnessed on many occasions Randy Turner being alone in his classroom with either a single female student or a couple female students.  They said that they felt it was a little "weird" and that they often joked amongst each other about Randy being with a student.

4. Are you Facebook or Myspace friends, or follow him on Twitter?  20 out of 20 students all stated that they were not friends or followers of Randy Turner.  Three stated that they had sent him friend requests but were either ignored or rejected; where as, their female classmates were always accepted and never ignored.

So the conclusion of my investigative reporting is that the Joplin School system was correct in identifying a possible "groomer" at work.  He was laying foundations within his female students in order to possibly, one day, take advantage of them and prey on their weakness.

Thank you Dr. Huff for ridding our schools and our community of this potential danger.  You are, yet again, a hero to this community.