Teacher Says He Regrets Using Pot
A Fresno High School substitute teacher charged with smoking marijuana with students in his class wrote a letter to the local newspaper saying that five years of pot smoking had made him “mentally powerless.”
Chris Bochin, 22, said he set the worst example for students. “It was the worst thing I’ve ever done, but in a way, the resultant shame and embarrassment I felt might just save my life in the long run,” Bochin wrote to the Fresno Bee.
Bochin, who pleaded not guilty to felony charges of furnishing marijuana to minors and misdemeanor charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors, also wrote an apology letter to his class that Principal Bob Reyes planned to read to students.
Bochin was arrested March 9 after allegedly smoking marijuana with five ninth-graders in an earth science class. The students were suspended.
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