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Monday, April 19, 2010
Teaching Certificate of Mr. Ralph Derren Mortier
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Camden Allows Another Teacher To Quit! Will They Report It To The DOE!
By Gordon Jackson
KINGSLAND — Police arrested a math teacher at the Camden County High School Ninth-Grade Center Wednesday after finding guns, ammunition and a hunting knife in his vehicle on school property.
Police said school officials called about 8:30 a.m. and said other employees had told them about the weapons.
The teacher, Ralph Mortier, was called to an office and confronted about the weapons. When police accompanied him to his car, they saw a brown leather handgun belt and ammunition in plain view inside the vehicle, police said.
Officers also discovered a black nylon case lying on the back seat that contained a double-barrelled shotgun and shells, police said. A hunting knife and more handgun ammunition were also found in the vehicle.
Mortier, 42, of Kingsland, was charged with possession of weapons on school property and taken to the police department for questioning. He was later released, pending further investigation and presentation of the evidence to a Camden County grand jury.
School officials said Mortier has resigned. Nobody answered the telephone at Mortier’s home, and there was no answering machine.
Gary Blount, deputy superintendent of Camden County schools, said the arrest surprised him.
Mortier worked in the district for at least 12 years and was a tenured teacher who should have known about the district’s zero-tolerance policy for weapons on school property, said Blount, who has also been a Camden County High principal.
“It’s shocking they could bring anything on school grounds,” Blount said. “Every employee of the school should know the policy. No guns. That’s the state law.”
Blount said Mortier was a gun enthusiast but doesn’t believe the teacher intended to threaten or harm anyone. The district recently announced as many as 30 teachers will lose their jobs at the end of the school year because of budget cuts, but Mortier was not one of them.
“I don’t think Ralph would do anything,” he said. “I would not have picked him to do anything like that."
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