Convicted felon taught first grade for a year on a counterfeit teaching certificate.
July 9, 2008 - Susan Bell, 51, a first grade teacher at 
Suncoast School for Innovative Studies, was arrested and charged with identity theft, fraud and using a counterfeit teaching certificate.
Bell used another woman's teaching certificate to win a job at the Suncoast School for Innovative Studies, a charter school where she taught for about a year before she was outed. Bell then falsified a resume and took a job at the Brickhouse Academy in November, according to reports.
Full Name: Susan Davidson Bell
Sarasota Herald-Tribune (July 10) Police say 2 schools hired felon to teach
"It's not the first time she's done something like this," said Detective Jack Carter.They didn't hire her.
Bell has been charged at least nine other times with fraud and larceny. In fact, she was convicted in 2002 after she gave Sarasota County School District officials forged recommendation letters and a phony teaching certificate when she applied for a job at Opportunity High School.
TT - A little frightening. She could have been a sex offender. And it makes you wonder what kind of background checks they do at those schools that don't include fingerprints that surely would have identified her.
