W.B. is an educator who was accused of inappropriate conduct at school, including sending a message through a dating application. W.B. hired our firm to provide a detailed written response to the allegations and to attend an informal conference before the Texas Education Agency (“TEA”), where W.B. would have the chance to discuss their side of the story.
As it turned out, W.B. was beta-testing the application for extra income, as W.B. had done in the past. When W.B. downloaded the application and checked to see if it was running properly, the name of one of W.B.’s students appeared as a suggested “friend.” W.B. contacted the student and told them to remove themselves from the application and further informed the student that W.B. would have to inform the proper school officials because the student was a minor and the dating application was for adults only.
Upon making the report, school officials contacted the TEA, in part, because they felt it W.B. should not be contacting their students via the application. W.B. denied any wrongdoing and, after explaining the details to TEA, including providing substantive evidence in W.B.’s favor, our firm secured a dismissal of the complaint against W.B.