TEACHER: Resignation welcomed

In the absence of appropriate action-taking by local public school officials regarding Jeff Kantola, a certified social deviate, it is a relief that for whatever reasons, he has now resigned from being allowed a job where he could easily continue with what is already a noteworthy part of his own behavioral history.

Kantola was evidently “vetted” into a position of expected ability to apply self-control, no matter what the circumstances might be, by some who hold the same attitude as does Lake City High School music teacher Tim Sandford, “that what is in the past has (both) no connection to the classroom or the safety of the students.”

According to the Tuesday Coeur d’Alene Press article, Kantola’s license to be professionally involved with even adults was revoked due to his disrespect and abuse of his chiropractic patients. He then significantly refused to the terms of his own professional suspension order and received long-term treatment from “a therapist experienced in treating sexual problems” and he was specifically “not allowed to treat female patients without a female chaperone present.”

Hello, Tim Sandford and LCHS administration. Just how does this make a documented abnormal adult person at all suitable to be in unrestricted and supervisory contact with…teenagers? One who can even “officially” grade their response to any of his teaching? A so-called professional person who has already sexually exposed himself to adults, for his own sexual gratification, then refused to apply himself, with even professional help, to functionally be able or willing to normalize and eradicate this deviance; this calculated, physical advantage-taking of others.

Seems that some LCHS teachers are “rallying around” this issue without being sufficiently mature themselves, to pay attention to a core responsibility they all share and for which they are accepting wages. That is the safety and security of all of the youth, that while they are teaching them, they should be caring for them, and not the practicing “nice guy” who behind closed doors has already displayed himself as something else.

DON KOCH

Coeur d’Alene