The DeKalb County Board of Education voted Monday night to accept a tribunal’s recommendation to terminate the employment of a Champion Theme Middle School teacher accused of allowing students to have sex in school.
Quentin Wright, 25, a basketball coach and math and science teacher at Champion, was charged in May with four counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A parent came forward with text messages showing Wright had arranged for her 14-year-old to use the storage closet for a tryst with another student.
Michael Walker, executive legal counsel for the school district, said the investigation so far has come across 10 students with knowledge of the goings on, and at least four known to have used the room for sexual activity.
Walker said Wright admitted to a district police department detective that he allowed students to use the storage room for sex, that he gave a condom to one student ahead of a sexual encounter in the room and that he purchased condoms for other students.
In one instance, two students were holed up in the storage closet more than 90 minutes while Wright was in his classroom, Walker said.
Wright has submitted a letter of resignation on May 19, but it was refused by school superintendent Michael Thurmond. That set into process the tribunal to make a decision on the matter.
Information from the tribunal’s investigation also was sent to the Professional Standards Commission, which could strip Wright of his license to teach.
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