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By Cara McCoy 
Friday, May 7, 2010 | 11:13 a.m.
Jennifer Gardel
New details have emerged in the case of a Las Vegas High School teacher arrested Wednesday night on charges of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old student.
Both the teacher and the student described to police six different sexual encounters, some of which took place in the school theater room or in her classroom, according to a Metro Police report released Friday by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office.
Jennifer Gardel, 30, was booked on multiple felony counts of sexual misconduct, Clark County School District Police said Wednesday. She was released from the county jail after posting $18,000 bail.
Gardel initially told police she was waiting to have sex with the boy until he turned 18 and told detectives she was “in love” with the teen, who was in two of her classes, the report said. She admitted the two sent text messages of a sexual nature back and forth, the report said, but she told police they had only kissed.
Police then interviewed the boy, who described sexual encounters at Gardel’s home, in the sound booth of the high school theater and in Gardel’s classroom. He told detectives the first sexual encounter was in January and that the relationship continued until the last week of April.
The detectives then re-interviewed Gardel, who admitted to the sexual encounters, the report said.
Gardel taught Spanish and theater, school police said.
School police detectives began investigating after someone reported the relationship to police earlier this week, authorities said.
School District officials said earlier this week that Gardel had been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. She began teaching in 2007.
Phone calls to a number listed for Gardel went unanswered. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had a lawyer.
You know, there are worse things going on in our schools than a 17-year-old kid getting some 'private' instruction from a 30-something Cougar.
As long as he didn't knock her up and she didn't give him The Clap, I say let them be. That Tabu subject of student/teacher sex has been going on since the idea of school was invented.
Nothing to see here, guys and gals.
Not the hottest teacher....but hey, strange is strange.
Wow... she had no regard for her career. Amazing.
How does that old saying go, something to the effect of don't something in your own back yard.
Guess the school district will have to hire swab dabbers.
@Doc_Holliday:
If your son does choose to do so, please tell him not to go around telling others. That will only lead to the phys ed teachers downfall. It takes all the fun out of it when you screw up someones life, kind of like the young lover of Miss Gardel did to her.
This is happening all over the country. Go to www.schoolteachernews.com and click on the Scandal page. This year they have documented over 200 of these types of incidents. They also have a map of where the incidents have taken place. In 2009 they found 464 of these kinds of cases.
Was she teaching sex ED.?
i thought she taught french not spanish.
AT THE VERY LEAST SHE SHOULD BE BARRED FROM TEACHING.