Bad Bad Teacher

We are reworking Categories on Bad Bad Teacher with a goal of enhancing our readers’ ease of use.

We are now including in all posts the state in which the referenced teacher works or worked.

When the teacher’s specialty (i.e. Art, English etc) is known that too is categorized.

We have categories for “Elementary Schools” and “Middle Schools”, Junior High Schools” and “High Schools” although there is no hard and fast rule as to what differentiates one from the other. We simply go with what was reported in the news media in the school’s locale.

Since teachers often double as coaches, counselors and in other roles when we are aware of multiple roles of teachers we will include them in multiple categories.

The “Hall of Shame” category contains only those teachers who have either pleaded guilty or have been found guilty by a judge or jury.

The category “School Staff” includes school personnel for which no other category exists.

“Language Arts” teachers are included in the category “English Teachers”.

The category “Science Teachers” designates teachers in biology, chemistry, physics and other scientific areas of education.

The category “Guards and Officers” includes private security guards, law enforcement officers working at schools, school resource officers and so forth.

“Principals and Assistants” is also used for school personnel whose job title contains the word “dean”, “administrator” and so forth.

The category “Teachers - Miscellaneous” is used when we can not determine the specialty of the individual who is the subject of our coverage.

“High Profile Cases” is a category for those cases which are receiving national news media coverage, which are the most frequently viewed on Bad Bad Teacher or both. The inclusion or exclusion of a specific case from this category is a purely subjective decision on the part of the Webmaster.

“Deleted Posts” are those posts which were subsequently determined to be non-applicable to this site.

On July 13, 2007 we added additional categories including:

“Church Schools” and “Private Schools”.

“Not Guilty” - Cases where the accused was found not guilty, charges were dropped and so forth after one or more posts mentioning the case were published here.

We added several categories to denote the nature of the accused, the alleged victim and in some instances the nature of the offense. These are as follows:

FE-CP - Cases with female school employee and child pornography
FE-FV - Cases with female school employee and female victim(s)
FE-IS-FV - Cases with female school employee and internet sting with female target
FE-IS-MV - Cases with female school employee and internet sting with male target
FE-MV - Cases with female school employee and male victim(s)
FE-UNKNOWN - Cases with female school employee when sex of victim(s) unknown

ME-CP - Cases with male school employee and child pornography
ME-FV - Cases with male school employee and female victim(s)
ME-IS-FV - Cases with male school employee and internet sting with female target
ME-IS-MV - Cases with male school employee and internet sting with male target
ME-MV - Cases with male school employee and male victim(s)
ME-UNKNOWN - Cases with male school employee when sex of victim(s) unknown