Mike Duda

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The Haslett Board of Education on Monday night referred to its policy committee the task of developing new policies to address issues arising from a 2007 drunk-shaming incident that came to the public’s attention recently.

While officials of the Haslett Public Schools continue to claim they are unable to take any action against teachers involved in a June 2007 drunk-shaming incident, a Michigan State University law professor, who is also a Haslett parent, disagrees.

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — The room where the Haslett Board of Education meets has 116 seats, the majority of which sit empty during most of their bimonthly meetings. But Monday night was no ordinary school board meeting — it was the first meeting after revelations of drunk shaming, drug use and alleged sexual assault by a group of teachers divided this upscale mid-Michigan community near East Lansing.

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — An incident of “drunk shaming” and drug use among teachers from the Haslett Public Schools has drawn the attention of the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, a spokesman says. “We were already involved and watching.”

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP — A police report that details an evening of troubling incidents among a group of Haslett Public Schools teachers involving drug use and “drunk shaming” is prompting questions about the teachers’ behavior and institutional accountability in this suburban community near East Lansing.

LANSING — Haslett Community Schools Superintendent Mike Duda is taking heat for what some community members call cultural insensitivity and racism in a PowerPoint presentation he gave to teachers, staff and board members on Tuesday.