Well, it's a lesson in stupidity

Dream Demon has a post up you just have to read. It starts with a teacher, Donna Sanders. She teaches special ed. I'm thinking she might be in more need of a 'special education' than her students are. As a parent, and a teacher- we just sort of expect that she'd have more brains than her actions proved she had.

And, while we're talking about people with the mentality of a primate- Women in Crime Inc has a case proving the need to keep sexual predators on the other side of the prison bars... for life.

Teach of the Year... never

Timothy Allen Rhodes isn't likely to be getting the Teacher of the Year Award from his now former employee Pleasant Plains Elementary, especially since he was charged Thursday with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and third-degree sex offense.

The school system's policy is to place employees facing criminal charges on administrative leave, but Herndon said he could not confirm Rhodes' employment status because it is a personnel matter.

According to Baltimore County police, the girl and her mother contacted police on April 11, after the girl told her mother she'd been abused and indicated that she wanted to change schools. Citing student privacy concerns, Herndon declined to say whether the girl attends Pleasant Plains Elementary.

Rhodes' wife watched the girl before and after school to help the victim's mother, who was going to school, police said.

Police say the abuse occurred between 20 to 30 times, and also included Rhodes showing the girl porn, in order to "instruct her on sexual acts he desired".

That "A" will cost you

Isaac Nathan Tillis had a 16 year old student with less than desirable grades, so to fix the problem, he offered a less than desirable solution:

Isaac Nathan Tillis was arrested after repeatedly telling student she could earn an "A" if she gave him oral sex. He lured the girl into a teacher's lounge bathroom on Wednesday, but once inside police and the girl sprung a trap.

The 16-year-old was wearing a hidden listening device, which recorded Tillis' proposition after he dropped his pants, police say. The 29-year-old teacher had also scribbled his request on a hall pass, an arrest report states.

And to think- I got offended when my teachers suggested I earn my grade by doing extra work.

Teacher made rounds...

Those now taking a closer look at Kelsey Peterson, the teacher who fled to Mexico with her younger to the point of being illegal boyfriend to avoid having to deal with any of the icky legal trouble she was facing, have been hit with a bolt of lightening.... it isn't the first time this woman was using the school yearbook as a dating service.

Back in August, the rumor around Lexington Middle School was that 25-year-old math teacher Kelsey Peterson had a boyfriend a 13-year-old former student. People had complained to administrators three months earlier that Peterson spent too much time hanging out with the kids. When new complaints reached administrators linking her to the student in August, her principal gave her a verbal warning, but that was it.

Love the last line... 'that was it'. No official punishment, no turning to the police to help investigate a potential criminal act. Nothing, other than a little bitty warning.

And to think she didn't learn her lesson, I suppose we should be shocked. Or, for those of us with more than half a brain- we ought to be demanding a better explanation from the principal as to exactly WTF is wrong with this picture.

Experts who study sexual misconduct by teachers says district officials should have seen a bad situation when they first fielded complaints, and done more.

"If a school district has reason to give warning, you conduct an investigation," said Robert Shoop, director of Kansas State University's Cargill Center for Ethical Leadership. "You don't just say 'Be a good person,' and then go about your business as if nothing has ever happened. You have to pay attention to what's going on."

Amazingly, it doesn't take experts to know that a grown woman, fielding the student roster for anyone who may be boyfriend material, has a serious problem. Not just legally- but mentally.

Of course, I'm sure the school will attempt to do their very best at fluffing this case to the point that all blame shift away from them... schools are good at that, with all the practice they have. But, maybe, perhaps just once they ought to sit down and consider practicing something more meaningful- like actually protecting children from the predators they employ.

On another related note, it seems that the victim, who shouldn't have been in the country to start with, might have earned his entire family visas.

A 13-year-old illegal immigrant who fled to his native Mexico with his schoolteacher amid a sex scandal may be able to return to the United States under a new visa the government began granting the week before he vanished.

The visa helps illegal immigrants who are victims of sex crimes. If the boy, who has spent most of his life in Lexington, Neb., qualifies, he could stay legally in the United States for four years and eventually apply for permanent residency. It also would extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18, if they applied for it.

Hopefully the left wing crowd which believes in rewarding those who break our country's immigration laws with citizenships, and offering sex offenders cushy treatment programs rather than actual punishment don't pay too much attention to this new information. I can just imagine them now, lining up to match illegal alien children with pedophile teachers... after all, it'd be a win win for everyone in their minds.

Primate Migration

It seems that even someone with a teaching degree can hold less intelligence than a pot of boiling water, as was proved most recently by teacher, coach and female predator Kelsey Peterson.

First the 20 something teacher began a sexual relationship with a student from the school she taught at. Then she professed her "love" for him during frequent exchanges of notes, she would have topped her irresponsible and predatory behavior by just running away with him after school officials and police began investigating... but it seems that just running away wasn't enough.

She had to, as police now believe, migrate to Mexico- possibly with 13 year old boy in toe.

The multistate search for a troubled 13-year-old boy and his 25-year-old middle school teacher — on the run after police began investigating a relationship between the two — has moved across the border to Mexico.

A police investigator says the white Pontiac owned by the middle school teacher crossed the California border into Mexico around 11 a.m. Tuesday.

When Fernando Rodriguez called his aunt over the weekend, he asked her whether a visa or passport was required to travel to Mexico, according to court documents.

I will never fail to be amazes at the complete stupidity that some women seem to have.

25 Magicly turns to 5

When Philip Underwood-Sheppard was sentenced to jail for sexually abusing at least 9 children, his victims were relived to know that he would be busy for the next 25 years. Busy sitting in a cell and not being around children that is. But now things may be changing for the former teacher who was convicted of nine counts of indecent exposure, seven counts of child molestation and one count of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature.

His 25 year sentence might really just be five years long, since it seems he was up for parole already.

"If somebody gives somebody a 25-year sentence, it shouldn't mean they're eligible for parole in four. It should mean 25," says Beaufort County Solicitor Duffie Stone.

Stone is fed up with a system that considers some sex crimes against children nonviolent offenses, opening the door for convicted sex offenders like Underwood-Sheppard to serve only a quarter of their sentence.

Although this predator didn't show up for his most recent hearing, he'll still be eligible for his next hearing... which comes in about a year.

"Here you have a kid with the courage to come forward and go to the police station at the age of nine to report what happened. Yet every year we're going to have to deal with this," the mother says.

"The biggest crime here is not only have these children been victimized, they have been victimized again by having to go to these parole hearings," Stone told WIS News 10.

To make sure that doesn't happen, stone says parole should be abolished to make sure there is truth in sentencing.

And he says prison overcrowding should not be used as an excuse not to do it.

"Prison overcrowding has been the argument all along. I can not remember a time when our prisons weren't overcrowded. Obviously parole hasn't worked, that hasn't changed anything," Stone said.