A former special education teacher at San Antonio’s Highlands High School has been arrested on child pornography charges.<\/p>\n
Carl Alan Atnip, 48, was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury on Aug. 27 on 12 counts of possession of child pornography, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n
He was taken into custody Wednesday after a traffic stop. An officer cited Atnip for speeding and discovered that a judge had issued a warrant for his arrest on the child porn charges,<\/p>\n
the San Antonio Police Department said.<\/p>\n
The San Antonio Independent School District confirmed that Atnip was a teacher in the special education program at Highlands High, on the Southeast Side, from October 2021 to August 2023.<\/p>\n
Atnip’s profile on the job listing site BeBee<\/a> says he “facilitated a life skills workforce curriculum” at the high school, “which involved coordinating practical, real-world activities.”<\/p>\n He previously taught English at Erlin Junior High School in Taiwan, according to the job profile and social media pages. The school serves students in Changhua County in west-central Taiwan.<\/p>\n In a video posted on Atnip’s public YouTube page<\/a> in 2015, he told viewers he moved from San Antonio to Taiwan to be closer to his wife’s family. He said he taught seventh grade English and was available for private tutoring.<\/p>\n Dozens more videos posted to the YouTube page between 2012 and 2015 show Atnip interacting with students at Erlin Junior High. He filmed a tour of the building and of class projects, which included a school newscast in English.<\/p>\n His job profile says he worked as a teacher at the Bexar County Juvenile Justice Center and at IDEA Ewing Halsell,<\/p>\n a public charter school on the South Side. SAISD, which provides teachers for the juvenile justice center, said it had no record that Atnip taught there.<\/p>\n IDEA Public Schools, a network of K-12 charter schools, said it had no record of having employed Atnip.<\/p>\n Atnip was booked into the Bexar County jail Wednesday. He remained in custody Thursday, having failed to post a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n Subscribe<\/p>\n There’s more to San Antonio with the Express-News. Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.<\/a><\/p>\n