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SLO High School coach Jeff Brandow fired amid sexual misconduct allegations

August 16, 2023

Jeff Brandow

By KAREN VELIE

Amid sexual misconduct allegations, the San Luis Obsipo Unified School District Board vote unanimously to fire head basketball coach and history teacher Jeff Brandow during a closed session meeting on Tuesday.

Rather than directly terminating Brandow, the board elected to place the coach on permanent unpaid leave. Brandow now has 30 days to appeal the board’s decision.

During Tuesday’s meeting, District Superintendent Eric Prater said the district took a significant step toward accountability before the open meeting on Tuesday, but did not describe the action. He said he could not comment on the details because of employee privacy issues and the ongoing investigation.

The mother and the sister of the underage student at the center of the San Luis Obispo High School sexual misconduct investigation accused school officials of protecting the Brandow instead of their daughter during the same meeting.

Watch a video of the mother and the sister of the alleged victim chastising school officials for protecting the Brandow at the expense of their daughter.


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Brandow will sue and get a significant settlement. Prater will get a raise and add to his $250,000/yr retirement.


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I’m thinking that teachers need to provide their own malpractice insurance for events like this. I understand that there could be insurance provided by the district but these events have become a money grab by lawyers, parents and ? . Self policing is more effective if the ratepayers work together instead of protecting the exception. Other professionals have insurance, certainly teachers are entrusted professionals that have lasting impacts on our children. Over 66% of our property taxes go to the cost of education, a staggering amount of money in California. How much of that goes to insurance, legal expenses and damage settlements? Our taxes would better serve our children if nefarious activities were not a part of the budget.


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Only the idiots in government could come up with a term like “permanent unpaid leave”.


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Wait a minute..is that so he can get another job and harm more children? Me thinks so..


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Jeez, must be some folks up in Atascadero getting pretty worried. Imagine if there was a story on that athletic department.


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All that knew and said nothing should also go !!!


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-What could cause so many administrators to delay taking action? Reporting and taking action expeditiously should be the norm. I agree public announcements should not be made until an investigation was completed, but this was clear.


-Are there protocols that prevent administrators from taking swifter action?


-I hope to see the community, students included, rally around not only the victim but his wife and kids. They don’t deserve any of this.


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Fire em all! Everyone single one of the sick individuals that played any part in this whatsoever. Sweeping change needs to be had immediately.


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Never going to happen. They didn’t even fire Brandow!


They would be firing themselves! They all knew, including the School Board Members.


Remember this was 9 years in the making. Prater, Pinkerton, O’Conner, Dickinson and all the Vice Principles and Administrators need to be held accountable for doing nothing since the first reported incident. Worse than that, they told the people that reported it to not say anything.


Parents, students and everyone else need to write a letter to the School Board and show up at the next meeting. September 5th!


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Responsible adults need to run for, and take over, the school board. Then clean house from top to bottom. Fire them for cause, seek prosecution, take their pensions.


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Finally this creep got the axe. Now the rest of jackals involved need to go.


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Putting Brandow on unpaid leave protects him from this incident effecting his credential. He will be able to get a job somewhere else with new students unaware of his predatory behavior. Once again Prater and the other district administration protect Brandow. Text book Cronyism. Sick.


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That’s what I was wondering…why not just terminate? There’s cause. It’s not like he could sue for wrongful termination.


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Prater and O’Conner are so incompetent, that they tied their own hands by not doing anything for so long. It’s unbelievable how inept these two are at running an organization. Prosecute them, initiate civil actions, take their pensions. It’s far past time for accountability.


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From the advertisements on this page it looks as though a class action lawsuit is brewing. Time to pony up taxpayers. Hopefully Brandon gets a pretty huge lien against all future income of his next teaching and coaching job.


Prater _ time to man up and stop being a piece of shit.


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