Security changes at STHS
By Kathryn Reed
Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s board of education on Jan. 12 terminated Larry Brown.
Brown, 63, had been a security guard at South Tahoe High School. He was arrested in November on charges of furnishing marijuana to a juvenile — a 16-year-old female student at the school. He had been on unpaid leave since his arrest.
South Tahoe High now has one full-time security guard and can draw from a pool of others when need be.
Jim Watson, district Human Resources director, said the state budget will determine how many security guards the district employs in the futures. In the past, the district has had three plus the school resource officer whose salary is shared by the police department.
South Lake Tahoe police Officer Aaron Crawford started as the school resource officer this week, with it being a full-time position beginning next week. Officer Scott Willson just retired from the department.
On Jan. 12 Crawford was already tested. He took two boys into custody who had been fighting, according to Principal Ivone Larson.
Larson said she is excited to have Crawford at the school.
I think that we should make it about what it is Larry a bad employee who did wrong, Lets not put blame on every one else. I know that the school admin did all they could to get the problem under control. When we start blaming others it gives STHS a bad name when there are people that go to work there every day and take care of our children. Most of us dont raise our own children and yet the people you are depending on to do this for you are the same people that you are trashing think about it.