Summary July 10, 2007Follow links for updated information.
Pleaded Guilty - Sex obsessed teacher
In Texas, Kumi Houston, 48, pleaded guilty to improper acts with a student for allowing a 12-year-old boy to, ah, act improperly. It's pathetic when a woman that age acts like a sex-obsessed teenager. FEMALE
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Pleaded Guilty - Lesbian sex
Idaho teacher Lauren Palmer, 22, pleaded guilty to injury to a child. She was found in a car with female student. She'll be sentenced in August. FEMALE
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Pleaded Guilty
Renee Smith, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of corrupting another with drugs and two counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor. She agreed to give up her teaching license and will be classified as a sexual offender. She AGREED to give up her teaching license, which prompted one poster at the news site to remark that it should be mandatory. However, it's Ohio, and there's no guarantee. She'll be classed as a sex offender. FEMALE
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Pleaded Guilty to Importuning
For asking a neighborhood boy for sex, Titus Wayne Loux, 71, isn't going to find it easy to find anyone to mow his lawn again. (Ohio)
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Another Trial
Our ever-favorite Ann Greenberg, 34, the Kentucky teacher who called a state trooper to buy drugs and then pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and conspiracy to obtain marijuana (less than 8 ounces) has another court date. This one is for perjury for her testimony to the grand jury. No doubt, after that, she'll STILL go back to her teaching job. FEMALE
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ARRESTED - Manslaughter
A horrible tragedy resulted in the arrest of Mirenda Frazier, 30, a teacher's aide who was charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence in the death of a 19-month-old child who was left on a transportation van for more than seven hours. (Mississippi)
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ARRESTED - Sex with Student
Forty times. At least that's what the student remembered and he ought to know. Christy Brown, 33, was arrested for sex with the 17-year-old boy after being found in a parked car with the boy. She was his English teacher. FEMALE
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SENTENCED - Mail fraud
A one-time USC Marshall School of Business lecturer, Barry Landreth, 37, was sentenced after pleading to mail fraud in connection with a real estate scheme that victimized several of his students. The judge - bless him - rejected the 41 months plea time and sentenced Landreth to six years.
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SENTENCED (Sorta)
If you consider six years' probation for having sex with two boys, serious sentencing. Sadly, it is something of the norm for Indiana where Amber Marshall, 25, was a teacher's aide. There's hope though that since charges are still pending in another county, the prosecutor there wouldn't think to drop four class B felony charges of sexual intercourse with a minor. FEMALE
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COLORADO COVERUP
How else can you explain why the Colorado Department of Education receives 2,000 - 3,000 reports of arrested teachers EACH YEAR in Colorado, but doesn't inform the schools where the teachers are employed? The rationale is that the information is personal and confidential. They do, however, notify the school when the teacher is convicted, which can take months (or years as we have found out.)
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ANOTHER COURT DATE
For Tammie "Liberty" Lee Reed - the Colorado teacher who was arrested five times for drugs but still managed to get probation and - don't laugh outloud - community service. (As if a methamphetamine-addicted woman will be welcome at the local hospital fund raiser.) She'll be going back to court for lying to a judge about traveling to an out-of-state wedding. Once the lawyer, prosector and judge finish trying to dismiss each other from the new trial. FEMALE
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BAD HIRING DECISIONS $$$$$
Tenure not only keeps incompetents in classrooms for decades, cheating children out an education, it also costs taxpayers millions for those Bad Hiring Decisions when districts pay out millions in buyouts. At Missouri State University, they've spent $700,000 alone in the last five years to buy out nine employees. Including this one. LINK
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IT'S JUST MONEY $$$$$
Taxpayer money, which makes you wonder why taxpayers in an Arkansas school district would tolerate plans for a $6 million tax increase for a new middle school when enrollment has dropped to the extent that they aren't rehiring to replace four teachers? But it's the $1.9 million "athletic facilities" that ought to ring someone's bell. Just because you're low-income, doesn't mean you should pay for the education of non-citizens, or what looks like imported students. The demographic just doesn't fit.
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