Crystal Defanti, a 5th grade teacher at Isabelle Jackson Elementary School in Pleasant Grove, California sent her students off for the summer with a special DVD that she had created for them.
The disk contained scenes that she filmed throughout the year that were meant to highlight their accomplishments and serve as a memento. Things turned decidedly ugly when she discovered that at the end of the little project piece was six minutes of footage of a very personal nature.
It seems that she had used the disk previously to film a little sexual dalliance in the privacy of her own home. She is shown having sex on a couch. She apparently didn’t realize that it was there until after she dispersed the DVD to all of her 10-year-old students, who had taken it home to share with their family members.
Frantically she started calling her 2009 roster of parents, crying and begging forgiveness. She enlisted their help in quickly notifying all of the families in hopes they would not have already viewed her little summer gift to them.
The Northern California school board believes that it was an honest mistake and they are not considering dismissal at this time, citing the fact that her record is otherwise unblemished. The board does plan some form of disciplinary action.