Posted on 12/21/2007 9:30:24 PM PST by ECM
A confidential, nationwide list of 24,500 teachers who have been punished for a wide array of offenses was made available to the public Friday by a Florida newspaper.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune created a searchable database of the teachers' names after waiting for years to gain access to the list. The paper began seeking the material as part of its earlier reporting on teacher sexual misconduct in Florida. It obtained the list from the Florida Department of Education.
The list, gathered and maintained by the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification, does not provide any information on why any of the teachers were disciplined. Sexual misconduct, financial misconduct, criminal convictions and other misbehavior all can bring disciplinary actions against teacher licenses.
A nationwide Associated Press investigation earlier this year sought five years of state disciplinary actions against teachers and the reasons behind them. In the years the AP studied, 2001 to 2005, roughly one-quarter of all disciplinary actions against teachers involved sexual misconduct.
The AP's seven-month investigation found 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered or sanctioned following allegations of sexual misconduct.
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This list is worthless for us to evaluate innocence or guilt unless it includes photographs.
Unfortunately pics aren’t my department, but maybe tomorrow when the morning shift comes in they can oblige :)
Well, we’ll instantly presume all the men to be guilty along with the females over 30. We need only review the photographic evidence of the females accused under 30. :-)
lol... nice...
PING
Wonder how many would make the list if it were of teachers that can’t teach or even pass a nominal test on the subject they teach?
The percentage of teachers who are worthless would be staggering.
Thanks for the ping!
confidential list, eh?!!!
ttiwwp
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is there a link to the list?
I’ll ping this to the Another Reason list.
I had agreed to do the Public Education list to help out republican professor and mcvey, who were having difficulty managing it because of time constraints.
SoftballMominVA and gabz have since graciously offered to take over the managing of the list so I passed it on.
If anyone sees anything that they think would qualify for that ping list, including issues related to colleges, please notify them, as well as being added or dropped from the list.
Interesting but of little usefulness.
So there are child predators out there, and some are within the government schools. I don’t think that was news to anyone.
There’s a new reason to homeschool every day. If we did this kind of pinging for a career, can you imagine what state of mind we’d be in?
Anybody know their kids' teacher's birth date? Right.
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I wonder how many could pass the GED for high school drop outs.
I have previously posted that I think all government teachers should take and pass Calculus I for math and science majors. Few need it for what they teach, but it would guarantee that they were smart enough to deserve the pay check and very generous benefits they are receiving.
It would be income. I’d take it.
Very small percentage would continue as teachers if a calculus test were mandatory.
Quite obvious if ya look at our kids math scores when compared to the rest of the industrialized world.
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