California’s Tracy Vanderhulst, a former “teacher of the year” at Yucaipa High School, has been detained by police on suspicion of having an inappropriate contact with a male student.
On Thursday, May 18, 2023, Vanderhulst was caught after it was discovered that she had been having sex with a student. For more information about the topic at hand, keep reading.
High school teacher Tracy Vanderhulst gets accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student
On May 18, 2023, Tracy Vanderhulst, a teacher at Yucaipa High School, was detained by law enforcement after being accused of having sex with a male student who was 16 years old. She was checked into the San Bernardino County jail, according to a Daily Mail article.
The Yucaipa Police Department disclosed in a statement that Tracy was detained on Thursday night about 11 p.m. after claims of having sex with a juvenile surfaced.
The police have not disclosed the victim’s true identity. He is a 16-year-old student at Yucaipa High, they have said, though.
“Detectives identified Tracy Vanderhulst, a teacher at Yucaipa High School, as the suspect,” they stated. Vanderhulst was detained at the Central Detention Centre in San Bernardino after the investigation was finished for violating PC 261.5(c) in lieu of $30,000 bail.
The cops think the Yucaipa High School teacher Tracy Vanderhulst has multiple victims
Former Yucaipa High School teacher Tracy is suspected of having an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student, but there may be additional victims. Her picture has also been made public by the investigators of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in accordance with the case’s investigations in order to raise awareness of it.
The sheriff’s office also acknowledged in a second statement that “Investigators and the Yucaipa Calimesa Joint Unified School District worked cooperatively to ensure a thorough investigation into this matter was completed.”
For those of you who are uninformed, let us inform you that Vanderhulst received the title of “teacher of the year” at Yucaipa High School in 2017. The head of the school commended her at the time.
Tracy “epitomises the educator so many desire to be—she is the kind and creative teacher from whom we hope our children will grow; the educator who strives to engage all of her students from her intervention classes to her honours classes,” the school’s principal remarked.
When did Yucaipa High School hire Tracy Vanderhulst?
According to a 2013 social media post published on the high school’s official Facebook page, Tracy Vanderhulst started working there that year as a maths instructor.
The Facebook post’s caption read, “T Bird Nation welcomes to our family: Jason Mills (special education), Mark Stafford (special education), Vince Petta (math), Veronica Navarro (science), Marquetta Harrison (special education), Colonel Robert Maldonado (JAFROTC), Jonathan Frisch (English), Tracy Vanderhulst (math), Jason Brush (math), Denise Malagon (instr. aide), Grant Thomson (instr. aide Greetings from the top high school in the IE.
