Controversial Jim Ned CISD Teacher Indicted

UPDATE 10/10/2008 - Kaleb Tierce has been indicted on three counts related to inappropriate contact with students while employed by Jim Ned CISD in Tuscola, Texas. More to be posted as this latest development unfolds

Local media article released 30 minutes after our story

Teachers get in trouble for having sex with students. But a West Texas teacher is in trouble — with the cops, no less — for assigning a book in which someone has sex.

Of course, the character was having sex with bodies of people he killed. This might explain the uproar and why the teacher's career could be deader than a sexed-up corpse.

The fact that a teacher can get trouble over fictional necrophilia is a tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's talent and the dull life of small town Texas.

The case against (former) Jim Ned CISD teacher Kaleb Tierce unfolded haphazardly over the past year, according to published reports (Read the Abilene story last, because it's long and confusing and stands on its own as inadvertently funny newspapering.)

Tierce was put on leave and his teaching contract was not renewed by Jim Ned CISD officials in Tuscola, a town located 15 miles south of Abilene that's best known as the home of Colt McCoy, record-setting quarterback of the University of Texas Longhorns.