As I mentioned, I am putting up a few snips that were of interest to me from the criminal case transcript of Joelle Ogletree's trial. The witness, Michelle Warren, who was guidance counselor, at the time, shed some light on whether sleepovers with students were a normal occurrence. I thought it was interesting that she herself did a lockin at the school with both boys and girls.  This is from page 94 (PDF here- to read, please right click and save to your own computer.)

Q. Would you think it would be a good idea to have boys and girls together at that age for a sleep over?

A. That would be hard for me to say, sir, because when I did the theater, we had a lock-in and I had boys and girls at at the high school  and we worked all night on our play. It wasn't necessarily a sleep over. It was, we went in there and worked. So I had boys and girls together.

Q. So it's not unusual at Glen Rose High School for good teachers who care about their students to socialize and to interact with their students outside of the classroom?

A. No, sir.

Q. And it was encouraged, in fact, at Glen Rose School District for teachers to be hands on, to care about their students, and to use unique and innovative ways to help students learn and to mentor them; is that correct?

A. Yes.

Q. And one of the things you used was a lock-in; is that correct?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. And that was fairly common there at the school district, was it not?

A. I don't know if it was necessarily common, but it had been done before.

Q. Did you get in trouble with the school?

A. No

Q.... when you did that?

A. No, sir

Q. Was the administration aware of it?

A. Yes, sir, they were.

Q. They didn't have any problem with you doing that with boys and girls?

A. No, sir, they didn't have a problem. We were at the school.

She goes on to say that she learned the indictments against Ogletree from the newspaper.