A Palm Beach County middle school teacher who was accused by three 11-year-old girls of touching their hair, massaging and tickling has been banned from teaching in Florida again.
Russell Vacherlon, 64, opted to surrender his teaching license rather than fight an effort by the Education Practices Commission to discipline him. The action became final last month, the website shows.
Vacherlon, a keyboarding teacher at Christa McAuliffe Middle, west of Boynton Beach, was charged with misdemeanor battery in 2019 and remained in a school district job with no student contact for 18 months. He agreed to a pretrial intervention in May 2021 where the charges were dropped if he resigned from his teaching job, agreed to pay a $100 fine and performed 25 hours of community service.
