Sunday Ronald Jodwalis was arrested for DUI after police observed him eating the wrapper of a sandwich and stumbling around with a reported blood-alcohol level of 0.31, nearly four times what is considered legal in Florida. On Tuesday he was back teaching at Venice Middle School. The fourth drunk driving arrest for the 52-year-old has not kept him from working but failing to report a previous DUI arrest may cost him his job.
According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune the Department of Education is looking into whether or not Jodwalis reported a 2009 DUI conviction. Failure to report an arrest is more damaging to a school employee’s job status than the arrest itself many times. Just recently a teacher’s aide was fired for not reporting her arrest on charges of drug possession and DUI.