Patricia Kent resigned as a teacher in 1996 and had her teaching license suspended in 1998 for having overly familiar and physically intimate personal relationships with students. Kent maintains she did nothing wrong.
A campaign banner for Patricia Kent, who ran a write-in campaign for Washington County clerk/auditor.This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.Patricia Kent, a write-in candidate who lost her bid for the Washington County clerk/auditor’s position last week, ignited a firestorm of criticism for her comments about how drag shows were grooming children for immoral purposes.
Kent resigned from her teaching job in 1996 after her “relationship with her young female students became a matter of public knowledge in the school community” and disrupted her “ability to teach,” according to a document outlining the findings of the Utah Professional Practices Advisory Commission .
On Jan. 15, 1998, however, the State Board of Education revoked Kent’s teaching certificate for unprofessional conduct as evidenced by overly familiar and physically intimate personal relationships with students and inappropriate discussions of religion and other topics. Upon Kent’s appeal, Steven Laing, then the state superintendent of public instruction, upheld the board’s revocation.
She also takes umbrage at the allegation she wrote inappropriate notes to students. Kent said one mother’s daughter had written letters to her and she had written cards to the student “telling her to hang in there… And I’ve signed everything my whole life, ‘Love Patricia,’” which she said some might view as inappropriate. “You can’t love anybody anymore unless there’s something wrong,” she added.
Kent, a longtime political activist who is the national chair of the Independent American Party, has been embroiled in several controversies over the past several years.
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