Two charter school teachers accused of assaulting students... (but no criminal charges?)

From today's Columbus Dispatch:

A second teacher at an East Side charter school is being investigated for inappropriate discipline after a sixth-grade teacher was fired for getting physical with a student.

Aleca Bryan, 28, was fired on Monday. Officials wouldn't name the second teacher yesterday, but that educator has been suspended with pay, said Allison Perz, who oversees the Columbus Arts and Technology Academy.

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Bryan was fired after a 13-year-old Reynoldsburg boy said she grabbed him and slammed him against the wall in the school's hallway. The boy told police she also dug her nails into his arms and that a witness who intervened had trouble pulling the teacher away.

Franklin County Children Services said it can't find a record of a complaint filed against the teacher, although Perz said the agency was contacted. No criminal charges have been filed. The school has not notified police or children services about the second teacher now under investigation, Perz said.

The school is run by a for-profit company called Mosaica Education Inc. Mosaica officials refused to release Bryan's personnel file and records of any investigation conducted by the school, which are public records in Ohio.

So, let's see.  We have two teachers who are accused of what should constitute assault, a misdemeanor in the first degree.  Incidentially, if the students had been the perpetrators, and not the victims, then they could be facing a felony charge of assault.  What the hell is going on in the State of Ohio that an adult teacher will face a less serious criminal charge for assaulting a student than if the juvenile assaults the adult?  While I don't expect a child to assault his teacher, I do expect that a teacher, who is in a position of trust, to show more restraint, and I think the potential consequences should be more severe than misdemeanor asault.

All that aside, don't think for a moment that the profit motive didn't play into this at all.  In two cases, neither Children Services nor local law enforcement was contacted in what is undeniably a crime.  Despite the matters being public record, the school refuses to release the name of the teacher or any public records related to the incidents.

I'm shocked that the Dispatch learned of this at all given the apparent secrecy the for-profit charter school is trying to maintain.

And if Children Services and local law enforcement haven't been notified, then exactly who is conducting this supposed investigation?  The charter school's company?  Can anyone have any faith in such an investigation?

And to think people like Bill Todd, Matt Naugle, and Scott Pullins wanted to force Columbus' children into charter schools like this one.   Disgraceful.