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Educator's apparent suicide may be linked to online teacher ratings
- 09-27-2010
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Los Angeles Daily News
A South Gate elementary school was in mourning today because one of its teachers was found dead in the Angeles National Forest of an apparent suicide, possibly because he had scored low on a disputed teacher rating report made public online. Rigoberto Ruelas, 39, a teacher at Miramonte Elementary School, was last seen last Sunday dropping off a present for his sister's birthday, according to the South Gate Police Department. Ruelas' body was found just before 9 a.m. Sunday in the forest, said Deputy Jeff Gordon of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau. Friends, coworkers, students and parents gathered outside the school Sunday night at a makeshift memorial, and crisis counselors were to be at the school this morning. "He went above and beyond teaching these kids," one unidentified man told KCAL9. (more…)
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