Parents - Who's Teaching your Children?

After reading this story from neighboring Tennessee, let us know about reported or known abuses by teachers or favors provided to unworthy teachers in your communities. While the majority of teachers are worthy of praise and are critical to our communities, rogue teachers like rogue police officers undermine the public trust. We can only safeguard this trust, aid our faithful teachers, and protect our students by shining the light of truth on these "bad apples" and refusing to tolerate them in our children's classrooms or locker rooms.
Stix Reports: If you area parent, you should be concerned about who is teaching your children. And Blue Collar Muse has a great case of who teaches our children, and why parents should be involved in their children's schools.

Lynn Lang, TN's State Board of Education & What We are Teaching Our Kids
Education is supposed to be about learning and knowledge. Today's education seems to be about far more than that, however. From participating in the "Who gets a seat in the Lifeboat?" scenario to curricula dealing with homosexuality, moral issues are taking up more time in schools. Unfortunately, educators often come down on the wrong side of the matter. How refreshing, then, to read about coaches shunned by the schools for their part in what became a criminal case. It would be if that had been what happened!

Lynn Lang and Milton Kirk were football coaches in Memphis, TN. An outstanding player of theirs was being recruited by top flight NCAA programs around the country. In 1999 and 2000 Lang received $150,000 in cash from Logan Young, a University of Alabama booster, to steer him to Alabama. Milton Kirk was to get a cut. When he didn't he blew the whistle on Lang. Milton Kirk pled guilty; was permanently banned from coaching and suspended from teaching for three years. He is currently teaching again. . . . [Read More]

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