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FORT WORTH — Many co
workers and students of a teacher
who resigned amid allegations that
he sold grades have praised his class
room abilities and say they hope that
he won’t be barred from the teach
ing profession.
Dennis Shannon, a 29-year-old
math teacher and coach at Eastern
Hills High School, quit Dec. 4 after
being confronted with the allega
tions, school officials said.
Four students claim to have
bought a grade of 75 for $50 each
and one a grade of 91 for $75.
The Fort Worth school board has
asked the Tarrant County district at
torney’s office to investigate and has
asked the state to revoke Shannon’s
teaching credentials.
Attempts to reach Shannon for
comment were unsuccessful, but his
attorney, Tom Hill, said, “We’re try
ing to resolve the issue in the best in
terest of everybody concerned.
“I don’t know that he’s violated
any law,” he said. “In my view, it isn’t
a criminal case yet.”
Mike Hays, the school’s head base
ball coach, remembered what Shan
non did for a young baseball player
who was barely passing any course.
“That kid has gone from a 2.3
(overall grade-point average) to the
honor roll,” Hays told The Dallas
Morning News.
English teacher Julie Landry, who
taught down the hall from Shannon,
described him as a “good teacher
and a caring one.”
Many of Shannon’s students
agreed.
“He’s the only teacher I’ve ever
had who made math fun and ex
plained it so that 1 understand it,”
said 15-year-old Wendi Cribble, an
A student in Shannon’s algebra class.
Cribble first had Shannon in pre
algebra last year. Even then, she
said, the standing joke in the class
was that Shannon sold grades.
“He would say, ‘Progress reports
are coming out and a lot of failing
notices will lx* going home. That will
lx? $20 for anyone not wanting one
sent home,’ ” Cribble said. “And he
would say, ‘If you want an A that will
be $100.’ But everyone just thought
it was a joke.”
District Attorney Steve Chanev
said an investigation will bemadeto
see if a state law governing educa
tion records has been broken. Con
viction on the misdemeanor charge
carries a possible sentence of one
year in jail and a $ 1,000 fine.
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PARIS — Among the pictures of
Paris High School’s Class of 1969 is
one of Albert Lee Thielman, de
scribed by his former principal as
“about as fine a young man as we
ever had.”
Thielman, a San Marcos resident,
is accused of planting a bomb on an
American Airlines jet bound from
Austin to Dallas-Fort Worth Inter
national Airport on Oct. 30. He was
arrested at a Las Vegas airport on
Dec. 7 and is being held without
bond.
The FBI charges that Thielman
wanted to kill his wife and three chil
dren so he could collect $4 million in
insurance money.
The plane’s 154 passengers and
crew members escaped injury when
the bomb exploded in the baggage
compartment as the aircraft pulled
up to the terminal. In FBI interviews
Thielman denied any involvement.
The FBI, in court affidavits, al
leges Thielman, who worked as a
salesman for a prefabricated home
company, had large gambling debts,
was considering filing for bank
ruptcy, bought more than $30,000
in cocaine in an eight-month period
and spent money on a woman identi
fied as a nude model.
Thielman, 34, is the only child of
Eugene and Dorothy Thielman. He
grew up attending a Presbyterian
church. The elder Thielman taught
math at Paris High School for almost
30 years, while Mrs. Thielman was
the librarian at Paris Junior College.
They declined to comment about
their son’s case.
Thielman’s friends described him
as outgoing and friendly and some
one who reveled in group activities.
ningham said, “This community has
never had the shock that this has
been. He was about as fine a young
man as we ever had in Paris High
School. If there was such a thing as
an ideal youngster, he was it.”
Classmate Bobby Groves said, “He
wanted to be with whatever was
going on. If everybody was doing
something, he wanted to do it, Ux).’’
Others remember him as a
prankster, prone to practical jokes.
"He was never in any serious trou
ble, just a lot of mischief," said for
mer classmate David Phillips.
Thielman is a dedicated Univer
sity of Texas football fan, and some
times he would travel to Dallas for
Texas-Oklahoma weekend.
Thielman left East Texas Suit
University in 1973 without gradual
ing.
“He was ambitious. He wanted to
make something out of himself. He
wanted to go to college, be success
ful,” Taylor said. “The last time we
were talking, he showed no concern
to come back to Paris. He wasn't
down on it like some of them are,
but he didn’t want to come back.
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