David Feil was sentenced Monday to 10 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for child sex exploitation, a felony, which will be followed by 10 years of a sex offender , court records show.

Feil took a deal and pleaded guilty in March to two counts of child sex exploitation, dropping four felony charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust from his case,Ěýaccording to court records.

Douglas County School District received a Safe2Tell tip in March 2025 from a student in Feil’s class at Roxborough Intermediate School about the man sending students inappropriate videos and connecting with children on social media, police said. The students nicknamed Feil “Mr. Pedophile,” according to his arrest affidavit.

Feil had previously received a written warning about having personal relationships with students, but continued to interact with them on social media and message them outside of class, the affidavit stated.

The man was hired at Roxborough Intermediate School in 2015, became a sixth-grade classroom teacher in 2017 and was fired in 2025.

“Feil’s actions followed a clear pattern of grooming, manipulation, and abuse of trust,” 23rd Judicial District Deputy District Attorney Brynn Chase . “He targeted vulnerable students, blurred boundaries over time, and worked to keep them silent. Thanks to the bravery of these victims, his exploitation of students has been put to an end.”

Douglas County District Court Judge Daniel Warhola called Feil’s behavior “unacceptable in this community and to this court,” during Monday’s sentencing hearing, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Every district is required to adopt a cellphone policy by July 1, 2026, which means families have a narrow window to weigh in on a critical choice: classrooms defined by distraction, or ones where students can fully engage and learn.

What does getting it wrong look like? Restricting phones only during class time. It feels reasonable, but it is not.

As executive director of Stand for Children Colorado, I work closely with families, educators, and school leaders across the state. The message I hear consistently is clear: cellphones are undermining learning and students’ ability to focus, connect and engage with one another in ways that are impossible to ignore. In fact, 72% of U.S. high school teachers say phone distraction is a major problem, according to a Pew Research Center survey.

Colorado now has a rare opportunity to get this right.

This moment comes as schools grapple with rising anxiety, addictive algorithms and lost instructional time. Phones are not just a distraction; they pull students into constant comparison, notifications, and social pressure throughout the day. Students lose an estimated 43 minutes of learning time each day to their phones, according to Common Sense Media research.

Kids ages 13 and older pick up their phone over 100 times a day on average, Common Sense Media reported. Instruction is constantly interrupted. Social media conflicts spill into hallways and lunchrooms. Teachers spend valuable time policing phones instead of teaching.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Where districts have taken a clear, consistent approach — requiring phones to be off and away for the entire school day, including lunch and passing periods — the results are striking.

Schools with these policies report more instructional time, fewer behavioral disruptions, stronger student engagement, and improved peer relationships.

And it¶¶Ňőap not just the educators who are noticing the positive changes.

During a recent Stand community information session on phone-free schools, we heard from Bianca, a ninth grader in Boulder Valley School District, where schools have had a bell-to-bell phone-free policy since January 2025. Bianca told us: “I am able to study better. I am able to listen to teachers better without knowing that someone next to me is using their phone or playing video games. My mental and physical self have both changed tremendously over the course of a year in a phone-free school. I have strong friendships with both students and teachers.” She also said that being off phones for most of the day has reduced cyber-bullying. Some districts are considering policies that restrict phones only during instructional time.

The concern I hear more than any other from parents is, what if there’s an emergency and I can’t reach my child? School safety experts who train for and respond to these situations say phones can actually make students less safe. One superintendent described watching parents flood the school driveway during a lockdown, blocking emergency vehicles from getting in. No one wants to cut off communications. Schools have trained staff and protocols for reaching families safely. Students need to be fully present and attentive when it matters most.

That same principle applies throughout the school day. While it may feel like a reasonable compromise to allow phones outside of instructional time, inconsistent policies create ongoing disruption. As Jonathan Haidt, author of the best-selling “The Anxious Generation,” notes: Scientific studies show even short interruptions can derail learning and require significant time to recover. When phones reappear throughout the day, the cycle of distraction, social comparison, and emotional disruption never fully stops.

Districts seeing success have three things in common: phones are off and away all day, expectations are clearly communicated to students and families, and rules are consistently enforced with immediate consequences. And consequences shouldn’t be punitive. Suspensions and expulsions do not belong in a phone policy. Taking the phone and requiring a parent to pick it up does.

Don’t let your district settle for an “instructional time only” policy. If you believe your child deserves a classroom focused on learning, not distraction, and a school environment that supports mental health and real human connection, speak up.

Call your school board member. Email your superintendent. Show up at a meeting. Rally your community — like the over 300 people who recently emailed Douglas County school officials urging them to include high schools in the district’s bell-to-bell phone free policy. Tell them you support districtwide bell-to-bell for all schools.

Colorado has a chance to lead on this issue — not just to improve academic performance, but to improve mental health, make our schools safer, and help students rediscover what it means to feel present and connected. But that will only happen if leaders have the courage to go all in on something that has a track record of success from schools around Colorado, the country and the world.

Krista Spurgin is the executive director of Stand for Children Colorado, a nonprofit advancing solutions that increase opportunities for families, historically furthest from privilege, through meaningful partnerships with families, educators, schools, and policymakers.

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Most of the job reductions — as many as 123 full-time equivalent positions — will be made among school support staff, such as people who work in special education, gifted and talented, and language supports, as well as administrative health liaisons and high school administrative support, according to Cherry Creek Schools’ .

“These decisions are not easy, but they are necessary to ensure the long-term strength and stability of our district,” Perry wrote in an email to parents. “By reducing costs and strengthening accountability, we are staying focused on what matters most — educating students and delivering on our promise of excellence for all. ”

Cherry Creek Schools has a $840 million budget and is projected to have a $15.4 million deficit this year, in large part because of declining enrollment.

The district will also cut 36 full-time central personnel positions, such as in transportation, maintenance, IT, communications and human resources.

Nearly $9 million of the reductions will come from other parts of the district’s budget, including overtime pay, professional development and a reduction in contracts, according to the district’s website.

At least two of the contracts that Cherry Creek Schools expects to eliminate are related to the district’s ongoing investigations into former Superintendent Christopher Smith and his wife, Brenda Smith, the district’s chief human resources officer.

Cherry Creek Schools’ investigation is focused on the Smiths’ ties to , which hasĚýreceived nearly $3 million in contracts from the district.

The district’s list of contracts being eliminated from its budget includes one worth $850,000 with Education Accelerated and a second worth $350,000 with a Washington, D.C.-based real estate firm called that has ties to Education Accelerated, according to the district’s website.

The budget cuts largely come as K-12 districts across Colorado are tightening their belts amid declining enrollment. Statewide, enrollment fell by more than 10,000 students this academic year — the largest decrease since 2020.

The decrease is largely driven by fewer people having babies and housing costs shifting where families live, but districts also saw enrollment drop more than expected this year because fewer immigrant students are attending schools amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.

Jeffco Public Schools, the state’s second-largest district, is slashing $45 million in spending, including cutting 139 full-time positions in its central office. Most of those cuts were made via retirements and other turnover, but at least 50 people will be laid off at the end of the school year.

, which serves Adams and Broomfield counties, cut at least 150 jobs in 2025 because of budget pressures.

James Christopher “Jim” Thomure, 57, of Centennial was arrested in June 2024 after he sexually assaulted and propositioned a 17-year-old student who was finishing an exam in his classroom in May 2024, according to police reports.

Thomure pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, a felony, and misdemeanor child abuse in January. The district attorney’s office dismissed one count of child sex assault as part of the plea agreement.

The victim read a statement during Thomure’s sentencing hearing Friday and described feeling guilty after the assault and Thomure’s arrest and worrying about how it was impacting him. She convinced herself he thought it was a terrible mistake and regretted it, she said.

“However, this consideration and care was once again not extended when he chose not to plead guilty at the first plea hearing,” she said. “It was not extended when he made that choice knowing I would have to endure a trial over a crime we both know was committed.”

She described being weighed down with anxiety during her high school graduation, carrying the secret of what happened as she was expected to praise him while talking to her classmates.

“The experience has stayed with me for years. I am proud that I chose to stand with myself, with others who have spoken out, who are afraid to speak out or are unsure if they should,” she said.

In addition to 300 days in jail, Thomure was sentenced to eight years of intensive probation for sex offenders as part of the plea agreement.

“This man violated the trust placed in him as an educator and caused lasting harm to a young victim,” said Danielle Jaramillo, chief deputy district attorney. “Our office will continue to hold accountable those who exploit and prey on children.”

Thomure’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the sentencing.

The changes, which were approved by the district’s Board of Education on Tuesday, will be implemented over a four-year period, beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, according to a news release.

The three schools targeted for closure are , and .

“These recommendations reflect thoughtful, long-term planning,” Superintendent Jeni Gotto said in a statement. “Our goal is to align facilities and enrollment in a way that strengthens academic programming, preserves student opportunity and ensures sustainability for years to come.”

The district’s first step is to close the Westminster Academy of International Studies later this year and have students move to to form a PK-6 International Focus Program. The academy’s seventh- and eighth-graders will go to the new Uplands Discovery Campus, according to the news release.

and are merging to form the Uplands Discovery Campus. Flynn students will attend school at Shaw Heights starting in the fall until the new campus opens in 2028, according to the

The other changes by Westminster include:

• and will no longer serve seventh- and eighth-graders starting in the 2027-2028 academic year. Fairview students in those grades will move to , while TKP students will go to .
• ĚýMesa Elementary will close in two years. A boundary committee will determine where students go for the 2028-29 school year, but not all pupils affected by the closure will attend Uplands Discovery Campus, according to the news release.
• Ěý will no longer teach seventh- and eighth-graders. Instead, those students will move to Uplands Discovery Campus in the 2028-29 academic year.
• Hidden Lake Secondary School will close in 2029. The educational program will relocate to the former Mesa Elementary building.

K-12 enrollment is falling statewide, mostly because fewer Coloradans are having children. Housing prices are also shifting where families live in metro Denver. The drop in students is hitting districts financially as they receive less per-pupil funding from the state when they have fewer students in their classrooms.

Other districts have also closed schools because of falling enrollment, including Denver Public Schools and Jeffco Public Schools. The Douglas County School District will shut downĚýthree elementary schools this summer.

Westminster Public Schools enrolls 7,590 students as of the 2025-26 academic year, according to state data.

Teacher absences forced schools to delay and cancel classes in Denver, Boulder, Aurora, Commerce City and Glenwood Springs, and students initiated their own walkouts. Dozens of restaurants and cafes closed across metro Denver. spoke out. An afternoon at Denver’s La Alma-Lincoln Park drew more than a thousand people.

Denver resident Kenneth Daniels, 46, and his 14-year-old daughter Violet were among the crowd gathered on the park’s grassy field at 2 p.m. Daniels, who owns Drop to Pop Records and Curio, closed his store for the day for the protest. The past few weeks have sparked feelings of horror and disgust, he said.

He and his daughter have been to several other protests, and Violet said attending helped her feel connected to the community.

“I feel happy to share their support for wanting a better future, and I’ve seen people who are from my school as well, trying to end this fascist regime,” she said.

A crowd marching past the Colorado Capitol around noon chanted “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!” Marchers carried signs calling out the recent shootings of civilians by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Hundreds of Denver-area students participated.

“Get ICE out of here,” said Charles Easley, 18, who had seen flyers posted around Northfield High School and decided to join in. Teachers, coaches, and school staffers were there, too.

“Even kids can tell this is wrong,” said Levi Caufman, 17, another student from Northfield High, referring to the stepped-up ICE tactics in Minneapolis.

The demonstrations were the latest amid widespread outrage following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, which have heightened concern over the Trump administration’s tactics in enforcing immigration laws.

Pretti, an intensive care nurse, was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent on Saturday after a group of federal officers tackled him to the ground while he was filming ICE actions in Minneapolis.ĚýAn ICE officer shot and killed , a mother of three born and raised in Colorado, after a confrontation in the Minneapolis streets on Jan. 7.

Protesters at the Capitol marched through downtown to join the demonstration at La Alma-Lincoln Park, sparking expletive-laden chants against Trump and ICE. Organizers passed out food and water to the crowd as advocates from different metro Denver groups addressed the crowd.

“Are we great yet? Cause I just feel embarrassed,” one sign read. Other signs urged people to love their neighbors or likened ICE to the gestapo.

Kelsang Virya with community group Mutual Aid Monday called for the release of all children in immigration detention centers as she spoke to the crowd, referring to the arrest of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father who are now being held in a federal facility in Dilley, Texas.

“Now is the time we must join our neighbors and fight back against a fascist government,” Virya said.

Teachers across metro Denver called out of work on Friday as part of the protests, with district officials reporting more than 1,000 teachers and other staffers saying they would not work on Friday. Another 497 teachers at called out, district officials said.

Mapleton Public Schools officials in Adams County told students they could not participate in walkouts in a Thursday letter, but did not stop them when at least 400 did walk out on Friday at Skyview and Global campuses.

“Our kids did participate in protests and nobody did stop them,” district spokesperson Melissa Johnson said. “We do support their First Amendment rights.”

District officials were concerned about students leaving campus unsupervised, but school administrators were able to monitor the protests to ensure pupils’ safety, she said.

Denver school officials announced two-hour delays at George Washington, North, South, East high schools and Joe Shoemaker and McMeen elementary schools because of staffing shortages. Early childhood education and other programs were canceled.

The and the Boulder Valley Education Association notified teachers that Friday was not “an authorized day of action,” officials said.

Aurora Public Schools and Commerce City-based Adams 14 canceled all classes because of staffing shortages.

“We always seek to keep schools open to provide critical learning, social-emotional support, mental health resources, and healthy meals for our students,” Aurora Public School officials said in a statement. “However, after closely monitoring the number of staff absences across the district for tomorrow, we have determined that APS will not have enough staffing capacity to safely operate schools.”

Adams 14 Superintendent Karla Loría declared that, because of high student and staff absences, Friday would become a “teacher and staff work day” with no classes.

In contrast, Cherry Creek Schools, the fourth-largest district in the state, didn’t have a large number of staff absent on Friday, and district spokeswoman Lauren Snell said operations were “as normal as usual.” Douglas County School District officials also reported no impact, with no school closures or delays. In Mapleton Public Schools, 66 teachers called out, and district officials were able to fill most of the absences with substitutes, Johnson said.

More than a dozen Denver-area restaurants planned to close on Friday, and owners of other restaurants said they would donate a percentage of their profits to local immigrant rights organizations. The point, Sap Sua Vietnamese restaurant chef and co-owner Ni Nguyen told the Denver Post this week, “is to grind the economy to a halt.”

Denver Police instituted rolling road closures throughout the downtown area on Friday afternoon because of demonstration and march activity, .

Colorado officials also pushed back on ICE this week, with U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper demanding ICE reforms as part of a proposed government spending package to avert a partial federal government shutdown and Denver officials supporting Minnesota’s lawsuit challenging ICE operations. Bennet on Friday condemned the Department of Homeland Security policies, and “Donald Trump’s immigration troops,” in a speech on the Senate floor.

“Alex Pretti was killed by his own government, and then his government immediately began to lie about him and what had happened,” Bennet said. “He did not attack the agents. He did not threaten them, and at no point did he pull a gun in the video of that horrific scene. It’s clear that an agent disarmed him before any shots were fired. Multiple agents held him to the ground. Three of them beat him. No reasonable person would have believed he posed any threat to the agents or anyone else at the scene, but the agents still shot him.”

Professional sports figures also commented on ICE on social media.

Nuggets coach David Adelman, who worked in Minneapolis for five years, told a reporter he watched drone images of what “looked like a war zone” and wondered how to explain what is happening to his children.Ěý decried “utterly senseless acts of violence,” referring to the killings of Good and Pretti, on X.com. “… their lives are just taken from them,” Johnson said in the post. “It¶¶Ňőap sad, and it hurts.”

Denver Broncos football guard also called for the abolition of ICE in a since-deleted post on Instagram.

BREAKING: Denver star Quinn Meinerz is calling for President Donald Trump to ABOLISH ICE.

Quinn posted this after Minnesota resident Alex Pretti was shot by US federal agents on Saturday.

Meinerz was one of one of first athletes to call for ICE to be abolished.

Wow.

— MLFootball (@MLFootball)

The device exploded in a technology office at Mammoth Heights Elementary School at 9500 Stonegate Pkwy, Douglas County School District spokesperson Paula Hans said in an email.

That office space is not used by students, and the one staff member in the room was not injured, Hans said.

The explosion set off the fire alarm and evacuated the school. South Metro Fire Rescue crews responded and determined it was safe for students and staff to return to the building, Hans said.

The incident left a small burn mark on the office floor, she added.

crews responded to a hazardous materials call at the school at 10:58 a.m. and said there was no threat to the community.

James “Jim” Christopher Thomure, 57, of Centennial was arrested in June 2024 after a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office investigation found he sexually assaulted a student while the two were alone in a classroom together.

Thomure, who began working at the Douglas County School District in 1999, was put on administrative leave after his arrest and resigned in July 2024.

Thomure pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, a felony, and misdemeanor child abuse during a court hearing Wednesday. One count of child sex assault was dismissed as part of the plea agreement.

Thomure is free on a $20,000 bail, according to court records. His sentencing is set for April 3.

Gonzales, who represents north, west and parts of downtown Denver, is one of the legislature’s most progressive members. The fate of her U.S. Senate candidacy will depend on how much the rising tide of Democratic discontent has reached Colorado — and whether the swell can sink one of the state’s most established politicians.

“We have seen so many communities being impacted by (President) Donald Trump’s corporate cronies treating our government like a piggy bank for their bottom lines, while millions of American families, and certainly families all across the state, are just trying to make ends meet,” Gonzales said in an interview ahead of her formal announcement. “And there has not been a response from the Democratic Party to be able to ensure that we are fighting back, using all the tools we have available to us.”

She’ll take on Hickenlooper in the Democratic primary in June as he pursues his second — and what would be his final — term in the U.S. Senate. Hickenlooper is a former two-term Denver mayor, two-term governor and one-time presidential candidate with near-universal name recognition in the state and formidable financial resources. What’s more, his supporters have been trying to fortify him against a primary challenge since the late summer.

The race will test whether that prominence is a bulwark or an albatross. Polls show Democratic voters are unhappy with the party’s direction and, in Colorado, half-hearted in their support of Hickenlooper and other politicians.

In a statement Monday morning, Hickenlooper spokesperson Jess Cohen did not directly address Gonzales’ candidacy.

“Senator Hickenlooper is focused on delivering for Colorado,” Cohen wrote. “He helped defeat the Trump and MAGA plan to auction off our public lands and is relentlessly fighting to lower costs for working families. John Hickenlooper has spent his time as mayor, as governor and as U.S. senator uniting us, and now fighting against the illegal chaos and outright corruption that has come to define MAGA and our President.”

Gonzales represents a credible threat to Hickenlooper, said Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver.

“This is a state senator, this is someone who has a following and can raise money,” he said Monday. “I still don’t get the impression that Hickenlooper is in a whole lot of trouble in the primary, but I think this is more emblematic of a lot of the Democratic base’s frustration with many centrist incumbents.”

Buoyed by progressive wins

If she beats Hickenlooper, Gonzales would be in pole position to become Colorado’s first female U.S. senator. Gonzales, 42, said her decision, which has been rumored for weeks, was solidified after last month’s elections.

In New York City, “Zohran (Mamdani) is a demonstration of what can happen when you reengage people who either have been tokenized or forgotten altogether by the Democratic Party,” she said. The left-wing state lawmaker’s laser focus on affordability helped him become mayor-elect of America’s largest city.

But Mamdami’s win wasn’t as impactful on her decision, she said, as progressive wins on Aurora’s City Council and Denver’s school board, plus the toppling of the Douglas County school board’s conservative majority.

Gonzales framed the race as a choice for a party at a crossroads: more “poll-tested incrementalism,” as she put it, or “a fighter who is clear in her values, who has a track record of taking on big fights and winning.”

Though she’s the most prominent, Gonzales is this year. She joins other candidates who include Karen Breslin, a political science professor and attorney; Brashad Hasley, a Navy veteran and software engineer; and A.J. Zimpfer, an accountant.

Gonzales was born to a big family on an Apache reservation in Arizona, where she spent her early childhood before moving to South Texas. She attended Yale University and, after graduating, moved to Denver to work as an organizer.

She later worked for a prominent immigration law firm before winning a state Senate seat in 2018. Her political resume includes a slew of laws intended to improve tenant protections in housing and to limit what kinds of information can be shared with federal immigration authorities.

Gonzales sponsored gun-control legislation earlier this year that put limits on sales of a swath of semiautomatic firearms, and she served as a primary sponsor of a 2022 bill that enshrined access to abortion services in state law, several weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade. The state’s voters .

As she eyes a seat in a different Senate, Gonzales lists universal health care and universal child care as core policy goals, in a rejoinder to moderate Democrats’ incrementalism.

She blasted Hickenlooper for voting earlier this year to confirm Trump cabinet picks like , the Agriculture secretary whose office recently threatened to withhold funding from Democratic-led states that wouldn’t turn over immigration-related information on food assistance recipients. Hickenlooper has voted to confirm 10 Trump cabinet picks in all, tying with several other senators for the most among Democrats, . (U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet wasn’t far behind, with eight.)

But as Democrats faced pressure from the base not to cave to Republicans, Hickenlooper did not join the handful of Democratic colleagues who supported a stopgap spending measure in May and a November measure that ended this fall’s record-long partial government shutdown.

‘Basically everyone knows him’

Gonzales faces a difficult road against the 73-year-old senator, who returned to elected office in 2020 by dislodging then-U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, the last Republican to hold a major statewide office.

A November poll that showed Hickenlooper’s net favorability slipping — from positive 13 to 5 percentage points — also noted that only 6% of Coloradans didn’t know who he was, pointing to near-universal name recognition, a factor that’s often decisive. He’s also already amassed a significant war chest to buttress his reelection defense: , as of the end of September.

His most prominent Republican opponent thus far is Janak Joshi, who’s lost several successive races, most recently a 2024 congressional primary.

Barring a late Republican entry, Hickenlooper’s most serious threat may well come in the primary election next June, which will be decided by Democratic and unaffiliated voters. If he prevails, he won’t need to hoard cash for the November general election.

It’s unclear if Gonzales can pose a mortal threat to Hickenlooper, said Masket, the DU analyst.

Gonzales will have to work hard to get media attention and can do so by mounting a more confrontational campaign, he said. Hickenlooper is well known, and his name recognition provides a significant advantage, Masket added.

But it will only go so far.

“Basically everyone knows him,” Masket said of Hickenlooper. “But I don’t think many people could point to something he’s done in the last few years in the Senate. At this point, he’s kind of famous for being famous. Obviously, name recognition is huge in a primary, but it¶¶Ňőap not the only thing, especially when incumbents are not that popular.”

The rumors of Gonzales’ coming candidacy have given Hickenlooper’s supporters time to prepare. In September, he raised $100,000 for the state Democratic Party. The party announced the “unprecedented” donation just as a poll circulated that tested both Gonzales and Hickenlooper and touted the former governor’s accomplishments.

A week before, someone registered at least three website addresses related to a prospective Gonzales run. Anyone visiting them was instead redirected to Hickenlooper’s campaign site.

Christen Cassic, a 56-year-old man from Parker, will also serve 10 years of sexual offender intensive supervised probation, which includes monitoring of all electronic devices, according to a news release from the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Cassic was arrested in January and pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child in September, a deal that dropped an indecent exposure charge from his case, according to Douglas County court records.

Cassic started working as a computer science teacher and soccer coach at Rock Canyon High School in 2022 and was also an assistant coach at Legend High School from 2015 to 2023. He is no longer employed by the school district.

On Jan. 14, a fellow teacher at Rock Canyon High School entered a classroom and found Cassic watching pornography with his pants down, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

The following investigation uncovered a “significant” number of pornographic images on a USB drive, including child sexual abuse material, as well as pictures of students taken in class without their knowledge, DA officials wrote in the release.

“This case was a profound breach of trust,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Danielle Jaramillo stated in the release. “Today’s sentence delivers accountability and provides a measure of closure for students and families harmed by his actions.”