Every incident happened off campus, behind closed doors. No supervisor saw a thing
A former student alleged a teacher at Palm Springs Unified School District sexually abused him while he attended high school in the late 1970s.
A California appeals court has now ruled the district is not to blame. The Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District affirmed the lower court's judgment for the district on September 29, 2026, in a decision certified for publication on October 21, 2026. The central question: did anyone in a position of authority at the district know - or have reason to know - what the teacher was doing?
The answer, the court found, was no.
The former student was 16 and a junior at Palm Springs High School during the 1978-1979 school year. He was enrolled in the teacher's science class and served as her teacher's aide.
According to the decision, the student testified that the teacher sexually abused him on three occasions - each time at her home, roughly a quarter mile from the school. The first happened during the lunch hour, after the teacher asked him to help move a table. The second came about two weeks later, when she suggested an off-campus lunch but took him to her home instead. The third took place one evening during a parent-teacher conference at the student's home, when the teacher and the student left to order pizzas and went to her house to wait.
That third night ended differently. The student's mother became suspicious, confronted the teacher, and...
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