Before You Click, Guess How Many Teachers Have Been Arrested This Year

[DeSwiss]

Teacher Arrested News

SchoolTeacherNews.com
July 30, 2008

This page consists of news reports of teachers and school administrators being charged with sexual indescretions. The most recent incidents are at the BOTTOM of the page. These are the scandals since January 15, 2008.

All 302 of them.

These accusations are reported and linked here from other news sources. Schoolteachernews.com does not purport to believe any of these stories until the accused is convicted of any crime. Schoolteachernews.com believes in the concept of innocent until proven guilty. As such we take no responsibility for the published reports of other news sources.

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- Oops, there's another one. Make that 303: http://www.wach.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=167245">Aiken math teacher arrested on several charges

Sheesh.....
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DeSwiss


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[Deja Q]

1. I'd pay them to come to my place; teach me a thing or two...

Just don't misconstrue my matriculation as meekly soliciting prostitution...

[DeSwiss]

6. You may want to click....

...a few article links before you committ. Just sayin'.....

[lonestarnot]

2. Damn!

[TomInTib]

3. I was going large, and thinking of gross....

Going big, 144.

I wasn't even close.

Tom

[DeSwiss]

7. Its the inflation. n/t

[panader0]

4. Where were these teachers when I was in high school?

Miss Luchsinger, I loved you.

[TomInTib]

8. When I was a child...

I never was able to go to school....

But my Mother would bring out this Woman, to teach me a lot of stuff...

Her name was Elizabeth Glasscock.

Made me crazy.

Tom

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I think it speaks to a lot of things.

The good ones getting out and the marginal ones being hired. A lot of people acting out from stress, and yes, some false accusations by young people who might want to "get back" at teachers for bad grades and disciplinary actions. It's likely a mix of all that and more.

It's hard being a teacher these days.

[DeSwiss]

10. And yet....

...with all the publicity that this problem has received, you'd think it'd slow down to a trickle.

- Instead, it seems to be "growing....."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. Could be some...

"McMartin Pre-School" thinking going on here. One thing my teacher friends have been quite clear about is that in a lot of school situations involving their kids, parents immediately go to a lawyer. It's a bloodthirsty situation when their special little woojums gets his or her ass in a sling.

[deadmessengers]

20. Yes, but that's a two-way street

With zero-tolerance abuse running rampant in public schools all over the US, I can't really blame parents for lawyering up. After all, lawyers are the ones writing (or at least vetting) the absurd rules that students and parents are expected to follow, and governments keep a small army of lawyers on the payroll for CYA purposes.

That having been said, I have personally never had to sic an attorney on any of my daughter's schools, but there was one incident where I sent a letter to her school's principal regarding an ongoing bullying issue that strongly implied that I was preparing to do so. Suddenly the clouds parted, the sun shone down, and the principal, who previously wouldn't even deign to return our calls, was somehow motivated to help us with our problem. Of course, I'm sure it didn't hurt that the letter was sent certified mail, with open copy to the district superintendent, a couple of members of the county school board, and the school district's general counsel.

[dsc]

9. There are about 3.3 million teachers in this country

which means that 33000 would be one percent with 330 being one one hundredth of one percent. That is one out of every 10000 teachers. That is a very good record.

[DeSwiss]

11. Reported. n/t

[dsc]

12. presumedly the same under reporting would apply to everyone else

and our rates are lower than the general population.

[rpannier]

15. The list is not restricted to the US and that should have been mentioned someplace either by the OP

or in the article

16. Glen Waverly, Australia Theage.com.au
51. Auckland, New Zealand nzherald.co.nz
56. Montreal, Canada canada.com
81. Dargaville, New Zealand nzherald.co.nz

and I found these international ones through a cursory check

[dsc]

17. so it is even fewer

We are getting close to it being more likely to win the lottery than have a teacher arrested.

[Mojambo]

14. Put more money into developing artificial intelligence and we can have robot teachers

Robots don't diddle little kids.

Problem solved!

[rpannier]

16. Before we all get into a tizzy and whip out our torches and pitchforks and start bludgeoning school

teachers in the village square:

The list is international.

I found these through a fairly cursory check:

16. Glen Waverly, Australia Theage.com.au
51. Auckland, New Zealand nzherald.co.nz
56. Montreal, Canada canada.com
81. Dargaville, New Zealand nzherald.co.nz

[LostInAnomie]

18. I love how the teaching profession gets singled out.

Like someone upthread said, the 303 equates to about one one hundredth of a percent. Compare that to the rest of society and that is a great record, especially when you consider that teachers are around students everyday.

I wonder why no other profession gets singled out like teachers.

[rpannier]

19. What about Clergy

Part of it is the trust factor.
I entrust my daughters to teachers and I like the idea that my children's teachers are above that.

But, it also goes deeper.
Regardless of what anyone tells you, education is NOT something that has been valued in American society.
Look at the charactures of teachers in books written between 179-1860...Ichabod Crane being the classic example.

Traditionally, most education took place in the home -- school education was, for the most part, utilitarian. Add, subtract, read and write.You put 7 year olds in the same class as 17 year olds and the school year was the middle of August until planting season began.

Teachers have been perceived as having a cushy jon. 9 months a year, long summer vacation and they work about 7 hours a day. That's the perception that many have about teaching.

Teachers have a strong union and conservatives (and conservative enablers) hate unions.
When I was growing up and going to school in the late 60's - early 70's I heard people deriding public school teachers -- they're only in it for the money.

'Real teachers' according to these clowns, were the private school teachers. Why? Because they made less money, so therefore they must love doing their job more.

Yet, that idiotic line of reasoning does not extend to them. ie Stock brokers. If they really loved their job, they'd work for less money.
They're good a f*cking with other people and their professions, but don't you dare criticze them or their motives.

[Peregrine]

21. Last year I got accused

I'm a Middle School science teacher. Last May, one of my 6th grade girls started spreading a rumor that I was having sex with another 6th grade girl. One Friday afternoon, the security guard came to my room and said the principal needed me and that he'd watch my class.

Well when I went to the office it was the principal, assistant principal, dean and counselor. On the phone was the vice president (I work for a charter) of Education (the owner's wife). I was asked whether I had sex with a particular student, if I knew the student who was spreading the rumor. The principal and exec believed I was innocent, but I was sent home for 5 days (paid) while they investigated. You'd think that 5 days off would be fun, but everyday I expected news vans to pull up to the house. Apparently the rumor monger was jealous because she thought that the other girl was my favorite. Which was ironic because the rumor monger was my best and favorite student. She was trying to hurt the other girl with the rumor.

I was real lucky. The rumor monger's father was apologetic and knew that his daughter had lied. Nonetheless, he could have made things ugly in an attempt to protect his daughter. The girl was suspended for 10 days and placed on home-bound until the end of the year when the principal would decide what to do. He could send her to the school board for expulsion, ask the father to move her to another school, or nothing further.

I've actually suggested that the principal not do anything further. This coming school year (in 2 weeks, damn it) she wouldn't be in my class anyway.

I was real lucky--the father was on my side, the girl confessed after a day. These things can turn real ugly, real fast.