Jury orders Miami-Dade School Board @MDCPS to pay $6 million to former student of ex-Palmetto High creative writing teacher Jason Edward Meyers, accused of harassing and sexually abusing a string of female students #BecauseMiami: miamiherald.com/article2547451… 
“The verdict found Meyers ‘posed a substantial risk of sexual abuse or harassment to female students,’ yet the @MDCPS district was ‘deliberately indifferent’ in how it handled the accusations.” #BecauseMiami
The lawsuit claimed that the principal and administrators at Michael M. Krop High were notified in 2008 and 2011 that Meyers was having sex with underage students, but no investigation was done — instead, he was transferred to Palmetto in 2011. #BecauseMiami
This $6 million judgement is actually the SECOND federal lawsuit in the Meyers sex abuse saga — an earlier suit from another former student against @MDCPS settled for $1.1 million #BecauseMiami miamiherald.com/news/local/edu…
Meyers is accused of “sexually charged relationships with 8 students at the 2 schools during his 14 years as @MDCPS teacher” — he was arrested in February 2016 for sexual battery of a minor involving one of the Palmetto students and is still awaiting trial miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…
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