I know all 3 boys in this case.  One of which is my cousin.  I firmly believe she did it! She did it, she did it!! (Edited for personal attack innuendo-salon)

I completely back the Administration's decision to ban her from all Glen Rose Schools. (edited for personal attack innuendo-salon).

I don't think she did it. If it is your cousin you should go give him a Madea smackdown for ruining someone's career.

I thought your cousin was the one that confessed at church camp he lied about it.

Well, consider that it's a TV show! Remember how Ogletree showed the 80 page TEA (Texas Education Agency) hearing in which not only was Ogletree given back her teaching licence but the boy's statements were found to be *fabricated*. If you really want to understand this more, I suggest you go read the entire, publicly avaiable transcript of the hearing.  (Another way to get to the transcript is by searching on the site, put in the keyword Ogletree and choose this.

SOAH DOCKET NO. 701-06-1196.EC TEA/DIVISION OF EDUCATOR CERTIFICATION AND STANDARDS, Petitioner VS. JOELLE OGLETREE, Respondent § BEFORE THE STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS PROPOSAL FOR DECISION

I think the motive is fairly obvious.  These "kids" likely started out telling stories amongst each other, each attempting to outdo the other.  She's a young, attractive woman and no doubt the fantasy of more than a few of the students.  Eventually an adult gets wind of the stories and starts to inquire.  They're caught in a lie and are not likely to embarass themselves or their prominent families within the community by confessing to making up the stories.  While most people caught in a lie will eventually come clean, there are those who are so narcissicistic as to feel their self-image cannot survive such a confession.  (OJ Simpson anyone?)

The fact that Ms. Ogletree doesn't offer up a motive during the Dr Phil show is likely due to advice from her attorney to not speculate about their motive.  Dr. Phil kept asking about her lack of anger towards these kids, probably more because it would make for better tv than demonstrate and indication or her guilt/innocence.  She's doing exactly what he eventually tells most people in disputes to do, focus on those things you can to manage/solve the situation and leave the emotions at the door.

Slightly off topic, but the hilarious part of this show was when Dr Phil asked if it was ok to bring out Matt so she could face him on national tv.  She hesitated and Dr Phil pushed asking why she wouldn't want to do that.  She said she didn't want it to be a screaming match and Dr Phil says, "won't happen on my show." Then he repeats basically the same thing.  Then he throws to commercial break and the tease before break is for a Dr Phil show next week and the group of people are shouting and pointing fingers at each other as Dr Phil sits there.  Too funny.

Heh. Yeah, that made me laugh, too. I mean, Ogletree obviously didn't know Phil was going to have one of her accusers facing off with her, sitting within spitting distance and I thought it was very classy of her to be concerned that she not be expected to react Jerry-Springer style. And Ole Phil Says "Won't happen" as he cuts to break and 2 seconds later, there's mama and daughter in law shouting at each other about whose baby this kid is. Yuh-huh. And Mr. My-Show-Is-Restraint-Personified sure did want to see a big cat and dog fight. Maybe he's used to people who cannot control themselves.

If what happened was so bad for these boys, why did 1 include playing I Never in french class as one of his favorit high school memories?  Seems like he would want to leave it alone instead of bringing it up again as a senior.

kbloom1,

How can anyone know someone's motive,  that could only be pure speculation. Most of us can come up with some plauseable reasons, only the boys know for sure.

As per your other concerns, I  hope you checked out the official findings on the webpage suggested by "salon".  If there had been a finding of something "crossing the line", although not criminal, her license could still have been revoked, or at least she could have been given an "inscribed reprimand" on her certificate.  She wasn't.

joe - I don't remember if it was the yearbook or the paper

mimi - I don't think he is there anymore...it was Harris

Update: Ogletree has got a court date for her case against GRISD.

Ah. So that explains why there have been so many people from the UK the last day or so looking at this. Look at the picture link in the menu at left that has a pic of both Matt and Chayce. It will take you to a bunch of entries that have the scanned reports of the criminal trial as well as the ALJ/TEA hearing. The criminal trial was declared a mistrial, but the DA never filed charges again, instead it was dropped, with jeopardy. The ALJ hearing judge said that the evidence was fabricated. If you really want to know more detail than just an hour or two on a Dr Phil show, spend some time to read the evidence and explanations.

In doing some disk cleanup, I have moved the PDFs that are the criminal trial and the ALJ reports. The new links are these.

ChayceW

Closing Arguments

DougOgletreeTeacher

JO's Dress

Matt B

Matt B Rooster

Matt Testimony Day 1

Matt Testimony Day 2

Mistrial

Money Spent

Notes and *I Never*

Plagiarism

Sam F

2004 Criminal

Sleep Over

TEA/ALJ Hearing

Warren Matt Actor

Warren Poem Document

MP3-Piano

I have just watched this am I have no doubt she is innocent!

I have watched Dr Phils show. I live in Belgium, I am Belgian, and I don't know any of the persons in this issue. However, I believe she's innocent and I hope that these out-of-control allegations will never have a similar effect in Europe. It is the responsibility of a school that it should be a safe place and therefore no malicious practices can be tolerated, but focussing on one person, thereby using "non-optimal" interrogation techniques on young kids is not done. This is also the responsibility of the school.

Amazing to me how familiar people are from around the world with this case. And you're right, the Ogletree family has spent a lot of money to try to clear her name, it's really a shame.