[Dilbert San Diego]

Wow. Lots more have been banned from teaching because of sex crimes than due to drug crimes or other crimes.

Any impropriety or illegality is troubling. But you wonder, can we do anything to judge the content of the character, or any other screening, to keep bad apples away from our children; to keep them out of the teaching profession?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Eighty-eight teachers over the last decade have been permanently removed from Colorado classrooms for sexual improprieties – the vast majority violating young victims from their own schools."

88 perps in one state in one decade - it seems that far outpaces the rate of abuse within the Catholic clergy. Yet we rarely hear about it, we rarely see stories about the problem of sex abuse in public schools. Where are the headlines? Where are the $500 million lawsuits?

[metmom]

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[hal ogen]

Oh, those fun-loving “educators”. I guess whatever they are doing it is “for the children”. Anyone who doesn’t home-school is not using good judgement.