Update :: Mass. High School Teacher On Leave For Starring In Gay Porn

Kevin Hogan aka Hytch Cawke, on the cover of one of his films.  

An English teacher and crew coach at one of the best schools in Massachusetts has had his gay porn past exposed thanks to Boston’s Fox 25.

Kevin Hogan, who taught at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden since September, has been put on paid leave after Fox has discovered he has starred in gay adult films, such as "Fetish World" and "Just Gone Gay 8." The films were released in 2010 where Hogan went under the name Hytch Cawke, the news station reported.

Hogan was also the chair of the school’s English department.

When reporter Mike Beaudet confronted Hogan about his past, the English teacher seemed caught off guard and simply said, "I don’t know what you’re talking about."

The prestigious school is now conducting its own investigation. In addition, Mystic Valley released a statement saying "We value the health and safety of our students," and that "the school followed our normal hiring practicesThe school did a criminal background check in Massachusetts and California, where Hogan had been residing. In addition, Mystic Valley’s officials said that they received flawless references and that Hogan had been placed at the school by the recruiting company Carney, Sandoe & Associates.

Parents were sent an email by the school, which informed them of the investigation. The news station also admits that Hogan has done nothing illegal.

In a similar case, Shawn Loftis, 36, was a public school substitute teacher at Nautilus Middle School of Miami Beach. Loftis, however, was fired for staring in gay porn under the stage name Collin O’Neal, EDGE reported in an Oct. 3 article.

"Adult performers are often judged to be immoral by American society, with no real basis in fact," said Joanne Cachapero, membership director of the Free Speech Coalition, the lobbying organization for the adult-film industry.

"I saw a video interview with Shawn, where he stated that the judgment of school officials against him was almost like implying that somehow, because of his background, he is some sort of pedophile. I think Shawn is right when he says that."

Loftis argues that teachers do not make a lot of money and that several of them could have secret lives in order to supplement their income. "A woman can be dancing at a bar," Loftis tells EDGE. "She hides it from the school to make extra money on the weekend. Why should anyone know about anybody’s private life?"

3 Teachers Caught on Video Threatening, Harassing Special Needs Students

America’s bullying endemic runs deeper than anyone in any sort of school administrative position of authority seems willing to admit. Over and over again we hear of LGBT students who brought years of harassment to the attention of teachers and principals, only to be ignored until attacks caught on video forced schools to even acknowledge these crimes were being committed.

Over the past year alone we’ve learned of countless students who took their own lives because their schools failed to protect them from horrific torment.

Despite all of these high profile suicides, hate crimes, assaults and lawsuits, bullying continues to fester – and not just from fellow students.

Imagine no one, not even your parents, believing you after you claimed you were bullied at school.
That’s what one student at Bankbridge Regional School in Gloucester County, N.J., says happened to him. So he decided to take things into his own hands and videotape the bully who happened to hold an important position; he was his teacher.

“It makes me feel like I’m trash,” said 15-year-old Julio Artuz.

Julio’s bully, his teacher, threatened to “kick his ass” and threatened to come after him when the boy left school.

But even Julio’s torment was mild compared to the three years of harassment and anguish 14-year-old special needs student Cheyanne was subjected to at the hands of two of her teachers.

“We were shocked,’’ her father tearfully said. “We couldn’t know. We didn’t know.’’

After being told repeatedly by school administrators that his daughter was lying about being harassed and bullied, he outfitted her with a hidden tape recorder under her clothes. For the next four days, she recorded a series of abusive and cutting remarks from a teacher and a teacher’s aide at Miami Trace Middle School in Washington Courthouse, Ohio.

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Cheyanne’s teachers spent years calling her dumb and overweight, refusing to grade her tests – instead giving her failing grades without bothering to read the girl’s answers, and punishing wrong answers in class with forced treadmill sessions or running in place.

What punishment do these teachers – no, lets be honest here – these criminals face? Julio’s teacher remains on paid leave, while one of Cheyanne’s teachers was asked to resign, while the other is expected to be put back in the same classroom next school year.

Deplorable.

If these weren’t special needs students, or LGBT students like we have covered in the past, being subjected to this treatment, these would be considered crimes. When a man threatens to kick a 30-year-old woman’s ass, it is a crime. When a woman forces an elderly man to do something against his will, it is a crime.
These teachers, and all bullies both young and old, should be prosecuted to the absolute fullest extent of the law. Lock these three adults up where they can’t hurt anyone ever again.