Teacher, teacher

 I'm certain that no teacher who ever endured my Punchinello classroom antics would have done this, but out in California, a teenaged male who disappeared in 2020 has been found living with a teacher.  

A California public school teacher has been arrested after she concealed the disappearance of a teenage boy for two years, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. She's under arrest, so at least her students will have the experience of having a substitute for the near future.

The kid was 15, according to his guardian Katte Smith, when he left home in Rancho Cordova following a fight with others in the family.  “He felt like the grass was greener on the other side,” Smith said. 

That was May, 2020, and he did not turn up until this past March, although the family with whom he lives and the local police tried to locate him.  He showed up at the house and asked to move back in, is what happened.

Last week, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office charged Holga Castillo Olivares, 61, with keeping the boy hidden.  Olivares is a second-grade teacher at the Alice Birney Waldorf-Inspired K-8 School. According to the boy, whose identity is not given in news reports, Olivares is the mother of one of his friends. 

Charges for Olivares include detention of a minor with intent to conceal from a parent (a felony), and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, (a misdemeanor). She spent this past weekend in the Sacramento County Main Jail, ineligible for bail, and will be in court this afternoon.

The hoosegow the teacher called home this weekend

Olivares is on leave, according to the Sacramento City Unified School District, while their investigation continues.

“We felt so robbed of all this time with him. You can’t just hide someone’s kid and think that’s OK,” Ms Smith told station KCRA.

I mean, you have to wonder what kind of teacher, let alone what kind of woman, this Olivares is, to think she can harbor a troubled teen as if he were a runaway Labrador Retriever. I am certain the topic of how wrong that would be came up during one or more of her education classes at whatever college she attended.