Arkansas Teacher Put on Paid Leave Following Prostitution Conviction

The Blaze ^ | 2/19/11 | Meredith Jessup

[Revolting cat!]

If you wanna be happy 
For the rest of your life,
Never make a pretty woman your wife,
So from my personal point of view, 
Get an ugly girl to marry you.

[cycjec]

It does seem to be a confluence of various delerious
socil trend. Single mother, etc. One notices the
officer that arrested her faces no consequences.

[cycjec]

This is Arkansas, the pay may be quite low and she might
not have full time work. NYC Board of Education requires,
or until recently required [I’m not entirely current] that
teachers on such leave report daily to some office.

[Trillian]

Well.. I guess it was a good thing that she wasn’t an english teacher or sex ed teacher ;)

[kcvl]

Teacher’s pay is lower in Arkansas than New York, of course, but so is the cost of living. She didn’t have a problem playing games on her cell phone or shopping for new clothes. Her actions have nothing to do with how much she was paid/ or spent. That is just an excuse.

[Salvation]

Too often, problem teachers are allowed to leave quietly. That can mean future abuse for another student and another school district.

“They might deal with it internally, suspending the person or having the person move on. So their license is never investigated,” says Charol Shakeshaft, a leading expert in teacher sex abuse who heads the educational leadership department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

It’s a dynamic so common it has its own nicknames—“passing the trash” or the “mobile molester.”

Laws in several states require that even an allegation of sexual misconduct be reported to the state departments that oversee teacher licenses. But there’s no consistent enforcement, so such laws are easy to ignore.

School officials fear public embarrassment as much as the perpetrators do, Shakeshaft says. They want to avoid the fallout from going up against a popular teacher. They also don’t want to get sued by teachers or victims, and they don’t want to face a challenge from a strong union.

[glock rocks]

Yah, it’s all fun and games, until someone chews an arm off...