Let’s see … Swensson joined the Carmel Clay school district in 2007… and this incident happened in the spring of 2007 at Warren Central.

Is that a coincidence?

Did Warren Central issue him his walking papers?

It makes you think… why would he make a lateral move from Warren Central to CCS?

Oh, maybe because he covered up a sex scandal? I’m beginning to think this guy is some kind of creeper. *Shiver*

Upon becoming Superintendent of CCS in January, Swensson commented: “We are duty bound to strive for the highest standards, so that we might set new standards of excellence and achievement on our journey forward together. I look forward to all that we will accomplish.”

It’s been a great journey so far… Seems Swensson is a master at “well-kept secrets.”

Here’s the story!

School district: Sixth graders had sex in class

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6180780

(2007) March 16 update: The superintendent of Warren Township Schools met with concerned parents this week.

Indianapolis – For months it’s been a well-kept secret. But now Warren Township Schools confirm a disturbing case of sex in the classroom. The illicit activity has parents concerned and a district at a loss for words.
Shop class gives students a chance to learn outside of the book. But at Warren Township’s Raymond Park Middle School, two students engaged in illicit acts in view of goggled eyes.

13 Investigates was tipped off by a disturbed resident who writes:

“…during school hours in a classroom with an experienced teacher present, two sixth graders completed the act of intercourse…at least ten students were witnesses. No disciplinary actions were taken against the teacher… All teachers were told to keep quiet.”

Middle school students having sex in a busy classroom while a teacher is present? Warren Township Associate Superintendent Jeff Swensson confirmed it’s true. It’s been kept under wraps since November.

The principal at Raymond Park Middle School would not speak to us about the incident or parents concerns. The superintendent in charge of middle schools in the district also backed out of an on-camera interview and instead provided a three-sentence statement:

“Two students were involved in inappropriate conduct in a lab class last semester. We have investigated the matter and taken appropriate action. The school corporation considers the matter closed and will have no further comment.”

Associate Superintendent Jeff Swensson told Eyewitness News off camera the teacher didn’t know what was going on because another student acted as a “look-out.” But once the teacher discovered the behavior, immediate action was taken. Swensson says the students involved were recommended for expulsion. But he did not say whether the board followed that recommendation.

Warren Township School Police were not aware of the incident and say no report was made even though the children were recommended for expulsion.

We sought comment from all seven Warren Township School Board Members about how this case was handled. No one was available to speak with us.

The house was a two story place in a big yard that backed up to the US 31 overpass (the one that crossed the rail road tracks). White clapboard on the top, brick on the bottom, next door to the place with the geese (maybe sheep, too). There’s another church directly across the street from it today. I used to fly kites in that field before it became a strip mall and subdivision.

I’d wager our families know each other. Weird huh? Ok, enough of my clogging up your comments section!

Re: West Clay. My late father also said the neighborhood looked like a movie set. Which it kind of does. (Side old school note: much of West Clay was built by the father of a guy I went to high school with.) I’d love to see what you put together.

My kindergarten was in Carmel because it was close to where she worked, and to where my grandparents lived until just a few years ago. (An old Farm-style house on Rohrer road, with US 31 running through the backyard — the death of many a Fitzgerald family dog.)

I’d bet money you’d know exactly which house it was if I described it further.

As for aesthetics, I’m sure you’ve noted that Carmel’s municipal leaders have made a strong push in the direction of New Urbanism in recent years. The downtown is a perfect example, which seem to be following the lead of communities like the Village of West Clay.

My video-shooting partner and I actually shot a lot of footage out in West Clay recently, and interviewed the developer. West Clay is an odd mix of progressive thinking about how to responsibly develop brand new urban developments, and total class exclusivity that makes it feel a bit like Disney World.

We hope to get something cut together soon. I’ll have to let you know when it’s done. I’d love to hear what you think.

As a city, I find it far more aesthetically pleasing that when I was growing up there. But it seems the flip side of the push for excellence (not inherently a bad thing) is a dismissive attitude toward anyone else who dares question them. That attitude existed when I went to school there, and it only seems to have gotten worse.

As for the soft-scented rich girls… that never seemed to happen for me. Any dating I did ended up being with, well, township kids. (Marion County areas outside the old, pre-Univgov city limits of Indianapolis, for those of you who don’t speak Hoosier.)

Carmel is such a strange place. We township kids in Indianapolis grew up listening to jokes by our parents about Carmel Housewives, who, fairly or not, came to typify the kinds of uppity white-flighters that made Hamilton County one of the fastest growing counties in the country until recently.

For my part, I dreamed of the soft-scented rich girls that lay locked behind the doors of all those enormous mansions. Carmel never seemed real to me.

With its abundance of old landowners and nouveau riche, it’s about the last place I can think of that would be keen on taking a hard look at itself. Maybe that’s not fair. But I will say the whiffs you’re getting of a cover-up don’t exactly surprise me.