TAVARES, Fla. – A Lake County, Florida teacher who repeatedly sexually harassed co-workers and verbally threatened students will get a check for $60,000 from his school district to go away for good.

The Lake County School Board approved the settlement for former teacher John Anselmo after an administrative law judge ordered his reinstatement with back pay in an appeal of his termination from a district virtual school last July, WFTV reports.

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The judge ruled the district could have fired Anselmo on at least three different occasions, but reprimanded him instead, and later moved to fire him, which equates to double jeopardy for the same offense.

“The school board made a big mistake. If they wanted to fire him, they should’ve done it the first instance instead of posing some lesser sanction and then coming back to fire him,” WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said.

The Daily Commercial reports Lake County board members initially didn’t want to agree to the $60,000 payout, but were persuaded by the district’s attorney, who said it would cost up to three times more to fight the case.

The $60,000 settlement includes the $45,000 in back pay ordered by the judge.

“It would seem to me that the settlement would be the prudent thing to do to resolve it,” district attorney Steve Johnson told the news site. “We recommend it because it is the best deal.”

Anselmo started his career in Lake County schools in 2007, and has racked up numerous complaints for his conduct in and out of school.

“Womanizing, arrogant, self-indulged,” is how former co-worker Joanne Ryan described Anselmo.

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Ryan told WFTV he once locked her in a closet when they worked together.

“He was spooky, it was spooky,” she said. “He was very different, everything he did was different.”

Last spring, Anselmo approached a female elementary teacher at Office Depot and allegedly verbally attacked her in front of her teen daughter, mostly about her work with him years prior.

Anselmo allegedly pointed at the woman’s breasts and stated “fakey, fakey, fakey,” threatened to beat up the woman’s husband, and later showed up at the man’s work, prompting the business to call police, according to court documents cited by the Daily Commercial.

A few weeks later, Anselmo allegedly got into it with students at Lake Technical College, and threatened to “kick their asses,” though the students were unsure why and confused by his confrontation.

Days later, the former teacher allegedly approached a colleague at Target who testified against him in the school board’s investigation and verbally assaulted them.

That person told police they felt “threatened, afraid and intimidated by the incident,” the news site reports.

Anselmo was also ordered to submit to a fitness for duty psychological evaluation, and did not pass, though the judge ruled that evaluation was “insufficiently comprehensive and, therefore, unpersuasive,” the Daily Commercial reports.

At least one of Anselmo’s alleged victims talked to WFTV after the judge ordered his reinstatement and was flabbergasted by decision. Many likely have the same reaction to the payout.

“I makes me sick,” said Anselmo’s former teaching assistant, who did not want to be identified.

“He doesn’t deserve to be called a teacher. He doesn’t deserve to be an educator. Our children don’t deserve for him to be back in the classroom,” she said.

The settlement means Anselmo will resign his position and agrees not to pursue any legal action against the school district.

His lawyer, Jamison Jessup, alleges the settlement says something about the allegations against his client.

“My client has always maintained the school district had engaged in unlawful employment school practices,” he said. “It speaks volumes to the merits of the case.”

Anselmo worked at several different schools in the district – mostly because of transfers tied to behavioral issues – including Triangle Elementary School, Eustis Middle School and most recently Lake Virtual School, the Orlando Sentinel reports.