Teacher and Students and Dope and Liquor

(Bossier City, Louisiana) A 35-year-old teacher at Elm Grove Middle School, Stephenie Simmons, was arrested this past week for allegedly providing alcohol to students and smoking marijuana with them. The students were 14 through 17 years old.

Simmons faces eight counts of unlawful purchase of alcoholic beverages on behalf of persons under 21 and six counts of contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

A complaint on March 29 led to an investigation which was conducted by Capt. Danny Dison, the Bossier Parish schools director of security, Bossier sheriff’s spokesman Ed Baswell said.

Simmons was placed on administrative leave the next day, pending the outcome of the investigation, Baswell said.

Dison's investigation showed Simmons consumed marijuana in the company of 15- and 16-year-olds in summer 2006 at a house on Oriole Street in Bossier City, Baswell said.

The investigation also determined that Simmons, who teaches seventh-graders and had eight years of experience, had on several occasions, purchased and provided alcoholic beverages to numerous juveniles ranging in age from 14 to 17, Baswell said.

Simmons was booked into the Bossier Maximum Security Facility. Also, she has resigned her teaching position.