When parents’ complaints and evidence of inappropriate behavior began stacking up against a San Ramon Valley High teacher, he was fired — but only after the school district agreed in writing not to give anyone asking about him a “negative impression.”

Now a pair of former students will receive combined settlements of $7 million from the district, having stepped forward last year to accuse former theater arts teacher Ryan Weible of child sexual abuse.

The two, whose attorneys announced the settlement this week, accused the former teacher of sexually abusing them between 2010 and 2012 on campus grounds after grooming them with jewelry and other gifts, according to their lawsuit filed in the Contra Costa County Superior Court.

While he was employed, Weible had been accused of hugging femal

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