Teacher, school bus driver, caught in underage sex sting

New and disturbing details today about two of the eight men arrested in a weekend underage sex sting; they both work for the Edmonds School District.

The teacher, identified as 33-year-old Bryson Condotta, has been with the Edmonds School District for over a decade.

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He teaches history at Alderwood Middle School, but now he and a district bus driver are on paid administrative leave.

Bad news travels quickly in middle school.

“My first period, we were all talking about it for like half the period,” said 13-year-old Ricardo Romero.

With his mother’s permission, Ricardo -- an 8th grader at Alderwood -- told us about popular history teacher Bryson Condotta, his history teacher last year.

“I found out today so I was surprised that he was the one cause he’s a good teacher, he’s a fun but strict teacher,” said Ricardo.

But Tuesday and for the foreseeable future Condotta’s classroom had a sub.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office says Condotta and Edmonds school bus driver Ian Moore solicited detectives posing as a 15-year-old girl online.

Both men sent sexually explicit text messages, both mentioned what they did for a living, and both showed up to meet the girl.

Moore was still driving an Edmonds school bus and admitted to detectives he planned to have sex with the teen on the bus parked along Admiralty Way.

“It’s a shocking thing to become aware of and everyone is still processing,” said Edmonds-Woodway School District spokesperson Debbie Joyce Jakala.

The school district went on to say the arrests and allegations are deeply disturbing.

“It is clearly something that you don’t want to have happen in any organization, less ours,” continued Jakala.

Parents we talked to want answers but may not get them.

“Someone like that -- I don’t even know how he got a teaching position -- I just don’t understand how they got in there. Same with the bus driver, they’re supposed to do background checks on these people,” William Watson, who was picking up his 8th grade daughter at Alderwood, told us.

The district says both men did pass background checks when they were hired.

Parents at Alderwood received a letter about the situation with Condotta.

He is also a boys’ high school basketball coach for the Everett School District.

Moore works as a substitute driver in Edmonds and has only been employed since spring.

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