December 17 is the trial date for 42 year-old Kimberlee Lyn Hoffmann, Marengo, on a misdemeanor charge of theft lost or mislaid property. Huntley police said they used a built-in GPS locator to track a lost cellphone to Hoffmann's handbag Sept. 5.
However, fellow cheeleading coach Julia Brunken told the Board, after Hoffmann found the phone in a restroom before practice, both coaches tried to find out to whom it belonged. No one claimed it and later, "It was so chaotic three weeks before Homecoming, I forgot, as well as Kim, to mention it," she said.
LITH Dad Ken Morel asked Board members to put Hoffmann back in class. "Since she left my daughter's been struggling big-time," he said. Other parents complained the school hadn't provided substitute teachers to replace Hoffmann.
In closed session Thursday the Board voted to suspend an unnamed teacher for unspecified reasons for 30 days without pay. Superintendent John Burkey, not specifically commenting on Hoffmann's case, said there was a difference between School District rules and the law. "Whatever could happen to an employee in the courts is a separate issue," he said.
Human Resources Chief Jessica Lombard said substitute teachers were covering all of Hoffmann's scheduled classes.
In the pic: Kimberlee Lyn Hoffmann
28 comments:
Good role models do not steal !
You don't know that she stole it dip xxxx.
There was no one covering her classes !! My daughter had no one ti help her your full of ---- If you looked intimately it you would have seen there was no one there !!!! Its al a big joke put her back in the classroom where she belongs !!! The girl should be happy she has her phone ! If a kid would have found it she would not have either back !!! How dumb was she to leave ire in the bathroom !!!!
Can we blame it on her being blonde?
So instead of bringing the phone to the office, she involved another teacher to find the owner, put it in her purse, took it home, xxxxxxxxx. If she is allowed to teach what message is this role model sending to students. A quick suspension and all is good. Can't wait to hear what the court system does with this. I'm a parent of a D158 student. I work hard to teach my child to make good choices. I would like to think that when my child goes to school teachers are not undoing my work
Why do our children have cell phones? None of us did.
Don't you know? Because there could be an emergency! They might need to take pics of their boobies, etc. and send them! What a fool you are.
She needs to be back in the class room!!!! It took over 2 weeks for her to be replaced, some classes still no aid!! I doubt she is the first teacher to pick something up that a student misplaced, the student should be happy she got it back, if another kid picked it up it would be history!
Nooo, they have cell phones so people's children can keep up with other people's children. Just like they see mommy and daddy doing with the neighbors! And so they can check in as to their whereabouts while mommy and daddy are at work (you know, so they can pay for the cell phones!!!).
.........while mommy and daddy are at work (you know, so they can pay for the cell phones!!!).
I was just going to say that! A little less crap purchased = a little less need for a two income family = a little more time together.
A little more time together = a little less facebook = American apocalypse! Ooops
Way too many misspellings and use of !!!!!!!! in these posts. Every sentence does not need to end in a !
I wonder what half the people are saying in these comments. Are you guys serious?
I have removed a comment for libel. If you "know" some fact previously undisclosed, call FEN so I can check it out. I have also removed a comment for obscenity; there simply is no excuse.--ed.
She is a good role model, really to whom, the favorites. She is only good to those she likes. All others, she is totally unfair and does not treat them as a "Special Ed" teacher with all her years of schooling and experience should. As for students not receiving the help they need, there are plenty of other teachers at Huntley High School that are good role models and would be totally willing to help your child succeed. What comes around goes around, karma does bite you in the butt eventually. This teacher has no right teaching in a high school environment and after this should never teach again.
She hasn't been found guilty yet, xxxxxxxx.
Ed,
The fact that you deleted from my post I read in an article from Huntley Patch. It lead me to believe the police stated items had been deleted.
FEN ain't Patch. Patch's story was (naturally) a reprint from the Crystal Lake Northwest Herald. And the really interesting thing is that NWH's source story seems to have been deleted, at least online. Hmmm.--ed.
Glad you fact check. Sorry!
I expect the trial to provide complete information.--ed.
I don't buy the 'tried to find out whose it was and then just got busy and left it in purse for 3 weeks' defense.
First, bring it to the office.
Second, in trying to find out whose phone it was (before bringing it to the office), try the contact list, call the 'home' number, etc.
Thank you. I read the exact same article. She or one of her children or husband for that matter deleted items from the phone. It was 2 items! She is a sneak and a terrible role model. She would do it again if given the chance. How did the stuff get deleted if she had forgotten about it? Come on people let's use alittle common sense here. She knowingly stole it and deleted the items most likely to try to sell it. What a sorry excuse for a teacher and parent! Pathetic!
EXACTLY!!!! This isn't the first time she has been caught taking something that didn't belong to her.
Please explain what any of this has to do with the fact that this teacher is guilty of theft? She removed personal information from the students device. Hmm..... now tell me she didn't do that and it just happened while sitting in her purse for over a week.
No she doesn't. As a parent and tax payer I do not want somone like this teacher around my child. She is a terrible role model!
Well said. I totally agree!
There are plenty of other teachers/aides to help your daughter in this district. This pathetic excuse of a teacher isn't the only one who can educate your daughter. Look into it.
Oh yes WE do! Dip ****! Please explain to all of us then how all of those items were deleted then? Common sense says she was trying to make a quick buck! What LOSER!
And all the people said AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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