Murfreesboro, TENNESSEE

INVESTIGATION

November 1, 2008 - A 36-year-old Blackman High School honors English teacher May have used text messages and Web sites to engage in sexual communications with at least two female students. The teacher may before a grand jury and could lead to criminal charges.

On Thursday, Rutherford County schools Director Harry Gill Jr. suspended the teacher while police investigate. That was after the sheriff's office contacted Angel McCloud, county schools attorney, about their investigation Wednesday night.

No charges have been filed.

Fort Edward, NEW YORK

PAID TIME OFF FOR BAD BEHAVIOR

Dec 21, 2007 - School officials did not alert police when Ann Lilac, a special education teacher Fort Edward Union Free School, was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol at school. She was escorted home and was suspended with pay for two days.

Police, however, were contacted and asked if they would be able to provide an alcho-sensor test, if it should happen again. School Board meeting is being scheduled during which district leaders will discuss the incident in executive session.

Charlotte, NORTH CAROLINA

ARRESTED: August 9, 2007 - Amanda Maria Athey, 27, was arrested, charged with three counts of indecent liberties and one count of sexual activity between a teacher and student

EARLIER STORIES:August 7, 2007 - An English teacher at Hopewell High School has been suspended, accused of a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The teacher had not been charged by police.

the student's father told police earlier this month that he had evidence of the relationship between his daughter and the teacher. He told authorities he recorded his daughter’s phone conversations with the teacher and found that the two were talking about their sexual relationship.

The search warrant also states that since the relationship began, the girl “has become withdrawn from the family and started cutting herself severely.”

The father found e-mail and taped the conversations.

In one conversation, the pair talked about having had sex the last time the teacher visited the teenager's home, the court documents say. In another, the student told the teacher her parents might help her through her financial troubles. The teacher responded that the parents would not give her money because of the relationship.

RESIGNED: August 7 - She resigned. Police are continuing their investigation. No charges have been filed.

ARRESTED: August 8 - She was arrested. (See link at top.)

LICENSE ACTION: January 2008 License Surrender. Reason: Inappropriate relationship with student - sexual. N.C. Board of Education.

Marksville, LOUISIANA

June 1, 2007 - Emile Lemoine, 41, a Marksville High School teacher, was arrested and charged with simple rape, oral sexual battery and sexual battery a student of the school accused him of assault.

The young man, now 19, graduated this year. Lemoine has been suspended.

Ellsworth, WISCONSIN

You cannot make this stuff up.

May 30, 2007 -Two teachers have been placed on paid leave while investigations continue into gun deliveries to the school.

Scott McLeod and William Lewis are both licensed gun dealers, both denied they had done anything wrong. Neither has been charged with a crime.

School Superintendent Kaler said agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) told him they believed guns were shipped to the school on more than one occasion.

[Police Chief Greg] Place described the firearms delivered to the school only as "long guns" and said they were packaged and new. He said that he had never heard of guns being delivered to a school, "not in my 20-some years of law enforcement here," but said his department and the ATF were investigating.

TT - UPS delivered the new, long guns.

Madison, TENNESSEE

Jan 30, 2007 - Margaret Thompson, a teacher at Neely’s Bend Middle School, has been suspended while authorities investigate reportedly inappropriate photos of her next to photos of students on her MySpace page.

Richmond, VIRGINIA

Dec 12, 2006 - You've seen him on YouTube as the butt-printing artist, "Stan Murmur," who smears his backside and genitals with paint and presses himself against canvas.

He's Stephen Murmer, an art teacher Monacan High School who was suspended from his teaching job. His students described his suspension as "stupid," "ignorant" and "kinda retarded."

Update: Jan 10, 2007 - Murmer is fired.

Largo, FLORIDA

Nov 14, 2006 - Described as "The offense [was so] brazen, so egregious that Pinellas School Board member Linda Lerner almost laughed as she read the account aloud."

Sharion Thurman, 56, Gibbs High School teacher "with a long history of work troubles" had falsified hundreds of student ballots in an attempt to get her niece elected homecoming queen in September. Despite a 20-year record includes numerous reprimands for poor judgment, insubordination, misconduct and disparaging remarks, she was given a 25-day unpaid suspension. Once the sponsor of the student council and junior class, Thurman has been removed from all school activities

The Tampa Tribune points to other questionable board discipline actions. But surely board member Linda Lerner's quote is a clue.

Mar 18 - Thurman is still certified to teach in Florida. Letter to the editor about the suspension and what it says about the Board of Education. Thurman got EducationWonks' Wanker of the Day Award.