An Associated Press investigation identified 2,570 cases from 2001 to 2005 in which teachers were punished or removed from the classroom for sexual misconduct.
Created in 1987, the list contains names of some 37,000 teachers who have had license problems, which includes all misbehavior, not just sexual.
~National Registry Gumbo: "Our inability to think that kids might be in danger, our inability to think that the nicest teacher on the block might be an offender — those things keep us uneducated."
The story doesn't say what percentage of the 37,000 teachers have licensing problems because of sexual criminal behavior that wouldn't be tolerated outside their academic communities. (I'm mistaken assuming that a new legal speciality has grown defending wrongly accused teachers. The school districts' methods of disciplining their employees require no extra-outside defense.)
by way of Daily Weird
Posted by Stubbornson at November 4, 2007 04:38 PM