Post by Kordax on Jun 30, 2007 7:48:36 GMT -5
How many times have you read about predator teachers having sexual relations with their pupils? Or how many times have you read about educrats dealing/using illegal drugs in classrooms, on skool property or on the streets? Kiting checks, stealing skool property, phonying up credentials, threatening parents/students, engaging in prostitution -- criminal teachers ply their chosen illegal deviancies just like rank & file non-teaching criminals, BUT, suppose educrats in charge of Tennessee skools all across the state engaged in a systematic cover-up of rogue teachers' criminal behaviors?
Betrayal of the public trust?
Undeserving of the billions of annual taxpayer dollars they administer without adequate controls?
www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/NEWS04/706300362
A student accused Kenneth T. Anderson, a science teacher, of fathering her baby girl while he was employed in Metro. Authorities cleared him in that case, but the school district ultimately fired him, citing poor classroom performance.
Anderson, now 38, promptly went to work in two other districts despite his questionable record. It wasn't until he was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student at Smyrna High School that school officials took steps to yank his teaching licenses and bar him from the classroom for good.
Anderson's case and others spotlight weaknesses in how Tennessee monitors its educators. Unlike other states, Tennessee has no independent agency dedicated to regulating teacher licensing and ethics. For the past two years, state lawmakers tried to create one, but the bills failed to gain momentum.
Relying on individual school districts to investigate their teachers makes some advocates uncomfortable because politics can come into play.
A district interested in hiding unethical acts could skew the investigation, said Terri Miller, president of a national organization called SESAME, Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation.
When criminal teachers are dismissed for cause, most often the skool system that terminated them will not properly inform other systems where the scumbag is seeking another teaching position -- they refuse to have an iota of concern for the students who will instantly be unnnecessarily placed in at-risk environments once a known criminal is enabled to preside over a new classroom.....
Betrayal of the public trust?
Undeserving of the billions of annual taxpayer dollars they administer without adequate controls?
www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070630/NEWS04/706300362
A student accused Kenneth T. Anderson, a science teacher, of fathering her baby girl while he was employed in Metro. Authorities cleared him in that case, but the school district ultimately fired him, citing poor classroom performance.
Anderson, now 38, promptly went to work in two other districts despite his questionable record. It wasn't until he was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student at Smyrna High School that school officials took steps to yank his teaching licenses and bar him from the classroom for good.
Anderson's case and others spotlight weaknesses in how Tennessee monitors its educators. Unlike other states, Tennessee has no independent agency dedicated to regulating teacher licensing and ethics. For the past two years, state lawmakers tried to create one, but the bills failed to gain momentum.
Relying on individual school districts to investigate their teachers makes some advocates uncomfortable because politics can come into play.
A district interested in hiding unethical acts could skew the investigation, said Terri Miller, president of a national organization called SESAME, Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation.
When criminal teachers are dismissed for cause, most often the skool system that terminated them will not properly inform other systems where the scumbag is seeking another teaching position -- they refuse to have an iota of concern for the students who will instantly be unnnecessarily placed in at-risk environments once a known criminal is enabled to preside over a new classroom.....