Robinson meets Sam, the man behind the punch. He said in 1975, when he found out his 16-year-old daughter had sexual encounters with her high-school music teacher, he went to the principal. When Walker moved schools, he told Robinson about the punch — it made her feel sorry for him. But now she knows what really happened.
Chapter 1: What happened to the music teacher Doug Walker?
And yet you don't recall Jackie telling you anything about what Walker was doing?
No, I don't recall anything specific that she said that would indicate that he was having sex with any of them.
If you had found out, what would you have done? What would the protocol at that time have been?
Well, my protocol would have been to certainly take it to the principal and the superintendent and inform them. And certainly, you know, he would have been dismissed at that time, I would think.
You think he would have been fired?
Yes. Well, there certainly would have been an investigation.
Hmm. I know that five years later in 1987, Allie told the administration what had happened to her. Walker had sex with her on a band trip to Montreal, but the teacher moved. He wasn't fired. Christy was part of that administration, too. It is.
I do find it interesting you say that it would have been cause for dismissal because, you know, in 1987, when it happened to another girl, he was just moved to a different school when Nicky Fork was in charge.
Yeah, well, there was nothing that happened at Arkham District High School that was ever drawn to my attention.
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Chapter 2: How did Anne-Marie Robinson feel about the punch?
In 1987, Peter Samuelson was not told why Doug Walker was leaving Markham District High School and why he was coming to his school.
I just know where he came from and where he went after he was at my school, where I was the head of the music at Stouffville. And I didn't know what had happened.
He means what had really happened. Peter tells me what he knew back then.
He gave me a story that he had taken a trip with his band to Montreal and he had been drinking beer in his room with the students. And that one girl told her parents that he got in trouble for having beer on a high school trip. And my principal didn't really tell me anything.
But then something else about this new music teacher caught Peter Samuelson's attention.
A few times I saw him either going up and hugging a girl or a girl coming over and hugging him. I just told him, I said, Doug, you've got to stop that. And I said, you can't do that. I said, you've got no physical contact. To me, that's a big thing that you don't touch girls. And so I did watch him, but I'm busy teaching myself. I couldn't follow him around all the time.
It was in the two years he was there. Other than that, he was well behaved and he did his job well.
Walker went on to lead four more music departments. Of course, this pattern of moving from school to school all started decades earlier. It all started at Port Credit Secondary School, his first job. Former students say he left before that school year was over. We're about to meet the man who knows why. The man survivors refer to as Punch Daddy. It's late fall 2022. I'm in the driver's seat.
Anne-Marie is the navigator. You go straight. It's been a long drive. We're fueled on fancy lattes and both a bit nervous about where we're headed next.
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Chapter 3: What was the role of the adults in the students' lives?
When they left the principal's office, Sam was fuming. What the teacher had done with his daughter was unforgivable. Sam, his daughter, and the music teacher walked across the school parking lot. Then Sam says, he swung around in fury. His fist met the teacher's face.
Afterwards, I kind of regretted in my own mind that I did that, because that's not the way a human should act. But my emotions just got the best of me, and foolishly, I reacted.
Yeah, it's interesting because I'm an absolute pacifist too and would never condone violence, but you stood up to him and I feel like you saved her by getting her out of it.
And believing her.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
But we now know the teacher's next move was to Anne-Marie's school. Anne-Marie does not blame Sam for that. She only has gratitude. Can I give you a hug?
I've wanted to give you a hug for so long. Thank you for punching that asshole in the face.
Honestly, thank you. You're so welcome. If I could do it again, I would have hit him with both.
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