{"id":92775,"date":"2011-05-12T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=92775"},"modified":"2011-05-15T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T23:20:44","slug":"teacher-resigns-after-arrest-for-indecency-with-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=92775","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Resigns After Arrest for Indecency with a Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/05\/12\/teacher-resigns-after-arrest-for-indecency-with-a-child\/robert-craig-varnell\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/05\/Robert-Craig-Varnell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Robert Craig Varnell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-93113\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview High School teacher resigned Thursday following his arrest in Upshur County on charges of sexual assault and indecency with a child, Longview ISD officials said. Robert Craig Varnell, 54, was a high school science teacher and one of the district&#8217;s University Interscholastic League coordinators. He was booked in the Upshur County Jail at 12:25 a.m. Thursday, charged with indecency with a child and sexual assault, according to the jail website. He is being held on bonds totaling $500,000. An arrest warrant was issued by a Gregg County agency, but Varnell was arrested in Upshur County. He lives in Diana. Varnell sent a handwritten note to the district to resign. Varnell started working for Longview ISD in fall 2009 and was in his second year as a teacher. Prior to working for Longview ISD, he taught at LeTourneau University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; A Longview High School teacher resigned Thursday following his arrest in Upshur County on charges of sexual assault and indecency with a child, Longview ISD officials said. Robert Craig Varnell, 54, was a high school science teacher and one of the district&#8217;s University Interscholastic League coordinators. He was booked in the Upshur County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=92775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teacher Resigns After Arrest for Indecency with a Child<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 08:47:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92775"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93306,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92775\/revisions\/93306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}