Should You Search For Criminal History of Your Kid’s New Teacher?

School is a place where you should feel confident about the safety of your kids. They’re there for most of the week, surrounded by friends and concerned adults. However, there just seems to be something odd about that new teacher at school. Are you being paranoid? Perhaps, but if your gut is telling you something is off, you should listen to it, because schools just aren’t as safe as they used to be.

Incidences of sexual harassment by teachers and other members of faculty are rampant throughout the U.S. Some of they may even be on the list of “sexual offenders”, but somehow slipped through the cracks and ended up being your daughter’s basketball coach. A lot of these sexual offenses are often covered-up because of the involvement of minors and because the school wants to avoid a scandal. For the schools to do a criminal background search on their teachers should be easy, yet somehow these offending teachers manage to get passed around through schools with a glittering recommendation. This practice is called, “passing the garbage” and schools do it all the time to get rid of their problematic teachers. It is because of this neglectful behavior that your children might end up having a violent P.E. teacher, a ‘creepy’ chemistry professor, or a math teacher dealing drugs to your kids! A simple public record search can tell you if you children’s faculty have been involved in criminal activities. You can see if they’ve been convicted of sexual offenses, theft, drug offenses, violent crimes, or if they’ve even served some jail time.

Your schools might not care what kind of criminal records their teachers have, but you should! You want your children to be in a safe environment and making sure their teachers are good, decent people is part of that!