What were they thinking?

"Unassuming high school chemistry teacher Walter White discovers he has lung cancer. Desperate to secure his family's financial future and finally free from the fear that had always inhibited him, Walt teams up with former student to turn a used RV into a mobile drug lab."

May 7, 2008 - That is the plot line of "Breaking Bad," an AMC series. You can find the whole episode guide, photos, games and downloads at the site, although why anyone would want to is beyond us.

It was only a question of time before a teacher made the t.v. screen and not as the Mr. Chips hero variety. Sadly, the star of the "Breaking Bad" series was included in an event honoring fifteen law enforcement officials from throughout the U.S. by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) for their extraordinary efforts to recover missing children and resolve child sexual exploitation cases.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children does fantastic work in identifying missing and exploited children, and the fifteen law enforcement officials rightly deserve recognition for their efforts to find missing children and identification and arrest those who would exploit them. A star from a series about a meth-making teacher isn't one of NCMEC's best ideas.
----------------
TT entry when we first heard about the series. Since that time, a Shafter, California, chemistry teacher was arrested, accused of obtaining materials to manufacture methamphetamine in the school lab. A teacher in North Carolina, another in Alabama, and one in Tennessee have all been accused of manufacturing methamphetamine. It isn't a national trend, but it's hardly worth celebrating, not when a high school principal was sentenced for selling it out of his car and his office.

And it's not particularly entertaining when law officers risk their lives to apprehend meth users and manufacturers.