Teacher Reinstated After Selling Cocaine to Undercover Cop

Education is a vital key to our children's success. Without they will most likely subject to a life violence and crime, drug abuse, landing them in jail. Education promotes, knowledge, wisdom, work ethics, discipline, all major assets needed to be productive in today's society. My motto is; School is the place you go to learn, money is the thing you got to earn, a good education is what you need, and when you apply all this you will succeed. We send our children to school say that they will be educated and successful but what about the educators?

Teachers have to also go to school to learn how to become an educator. We call this furthering education. Attending college to obtain a degree or degrees permitting them to teach in a school. Not only do they have to have a degree but also they must have a background check done and a drug-screening test done. If they fail either the background check or the drug screening they can not be allowed to teach. Which makes sense because we can't let just anyone teach our children. They have to be credible, dependable, reliable, honest, decent, reputable, and able minded to educate. What happens when a teacher violates that code of conduct and commits a crime? Should they be forgiven and allowed to continue teaching? What if there were personal circumstances that caused that teacher to make a bad judgement?

A teacher experiences back to back tragedy. First his baby dies and then his wife dies. So the teachers decides to start selling drugs. Not sure if he did it to cover the funeral costs pay off debt left behind from his wife, or just to keep his mind occupied as he suffered and mourned. All I know is that he got caught selling cocaine to an undercover police officer. This is a felony cocaine is a very powerful drug. I'm pretty sure he pled guilty of the charges and completed his punishment. Now he wants to go back to teaching.

Should he be allowed to teach our children. How can he teach them about integrity and respect? How can they trust him how can the parents trust him? He's supposed to teach them how to become productive members of society and yet he becomes a drug dealer and because of traumatic circumstances someone had compassion on him and allowed him to be reinstated to teach. So now he has shown that it's ok to be convicted of a crime if you're actions were bought on because of tragic events. We want our children to become leaders, and doctors and lawyers and we expect them to conduct themselves in an orderly fashion at all times. Teachers are supposed to set an example.

The fact that he was reinstated to teach is not the only thing that troubles me. The fact that he's so easily able to obtain any job startles me. Do you know how many people there are people who have felony and or drug related convictions that can not get a job?

Here we have someone who was a professional who stepped out of his profession and became a drug dealer/felon. What about people who will never be able to be a professional, because they have a felony? What message are we sending? I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve a second chance but what about the people who can't even get a first chance? I understand that he was going through a lot and may have been a little out of his mind but what about the people who've had to sell drugs to take care of their families? People who were angry and acted on impulse should we excuse them for their behavior?

If society continues to ignore peoples wrong doing or overlook them because of certain circumstances that evolved around the problem then we're going to have a very mixed up and troubled generation to deal with. Especially in a day where drugs, sex, and gun violence are some of the leading causes for troubled youth. If we allow leaders to mimic the behaviors of the followers then it'll just be the blind leading the blind and eventually everyone is going to fall into a ditch. Myra Smith