Substitute teachers are strangers in the classroom. Strangers to the administration. Strangers to the students. Strangers to other teachers. They're paid visitors and, increasingly, they are sources of major problems.
Mar 27, 2007 - Karen Charron, 58, a substitute in the Ray-Pec School District was arrested for allegedly being under the influence. (It was Raymore-Peculiar Middle School.)
She was serving her second day in the district when a staff member reported a change in the teacher's behavior. Charron was arrested and charged with possession of an open container and endangering the welfare of a child.
The school district said it conducts background checks on all substitute teachers, and it called the behavior "unacceptable."
[TT - Background checks do not predict behavior. They only tell you what the individual did in the past. Doesn't the district require professional or personal references? An interview? Citing background checks, increasingly, is a way for some school authorities to say, "It's not our fault."]
