Mill Creek Police launched an investigation into Everett Public Schools teacher Kevin Kukla in April 2024 after a custodian found Kukla receiving a back massage from a student in his locked classroom. Although the teacher and student, then 18, denied they were romantically involved, years of text messages between the two reference kissing, loving and missing each other, and being afraid someone saw them lying in the back of the teacher’s car.
The police investigation ended after a detective found there wasn’t enough evidence to prove a physical relationship between the two. Kukla resigned from his position in June 2024 amid the school district’s third-party investigation, which he refused to participate in.
Later that year, Kukla found another job as an adjunct instructor at Shoreline Community College, just north of Seattle.
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