Former Jamestown teacher one of 2 to get teaching license revoked

Benjamin Marshall lost his teaching license Tuesday.

Until he resigned last April, Marshall was the Jamestown C-1 School District's vocational agriculture teacher.

Missouri's state Board of Education on Tuesday also revoked Hope Herd's teaching certificate. She taught agricultural education at the Everton R-3 School District in Dade County, northwest of Springfield, until April 2009.

Both were accused of inappropriate relationships with students, and their licenses were revoked under the state board's authority to revoke a teaching license based on "evidence of the certificate holder's incompetence, immorality or neglect of duty."

Marshall, of Jamestown, pleaded guilty June 21 in Moniteau County to third-degree sexual misconduct and third-degree assault, both misdemeanors.