BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Students at Del Oro High School are taking action to stand up for their safety after a band teacher was recently arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student.
PREVIOUS REPORTING: Del Oro High School employee arrested for alleged sexual relationship with student
The teacher, identified as 26-year-old Salvador Fabian, a band coach at the school, was taken into custody and booked into Kern County Jail on multiple charges, including having an unlawful sexual relationship with a minor.
Two Del Oro High School students are hoping friends, classmates, parents, and community outside of the Kern High School District will show up Thursday morning to advocate for safer conditions (Anonymous source).
Along with a friend, one Del Oro senior, who asked not to be named, organized a walkout for Thursday, a day after the news broke.
They hope that the school district will take this as a message to have better hiring practices and perform more in-depth background checks.
“We just thought that it’d be a good idea, because there’s kids who go through this, they don’t have a choice or are not able to speak out about it, and have to live with it for the rest of their life, boys and girls both,” said the student.
Two weeks ago, a teacher at Arvin High School, belonging to the same school district as Del Oro, was sentenced to jail after having sex with a student.
“It’s kind of feeling like it’s a normal thing now, and it’s not,” the high school senior said, “it’s a really disgusting thing.”
She said that she feels uneasy going into her spring semester, after knowing the alleged inappropriate behavior of who her school hired.
“I feel honestly, kind of shaken by it, because I feel like I have to watch out, even for teachers that I feel safe with” she said.
According to the Kern High School District, Fabian has been put on paid administrative leave.
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The students will meet on Thursday, October 30, at 9:10 AM, outside the high school.