Bad Bad Teacher

Last Updated: 06/28/08

(1) Q. Why are you doing this?
A. Please see About Badbadteacher.com for the answer.

(2) Q. What geographic areas are included in your reports?
A. Primarily the United States, however as of July 1st, 2008 we are going to expand our coverage by including noteworthy international cases.

(3) Q. What types are schools are included?
A. K-12, public, private, charter, daycare/learning center and specialized training schools.

(4) Q. Do you report only on teachers accused of crimes?
A. No. We report on ALL school personnel accused of crimes including school board members.

(5) Q. Do you report on crimes involving school personnel but not involving student victims?
A. No. We only report on cases involving teacher-student relationships.

(6) Q. Do you report on crimes wherein the accused and victim are from different schools?
A. Yes. A person victimizing students at one school may have victimized at others.

(7) Q. What if the accused is later found not guilty or charges are dropped?
A. If we are aware of it, we will post it.

(8) Q. From where do you get your information?
A. News media reports, reader tips and lots of searching.

(9) Q. If you have made a mistake will you correct it?
A. Certainly. Just let us know where we are mistaken.

(10) Q. If someone asks will you remove a particular post?
A. No, unless what we posted is factually wrong, should not have been posted at all or in cases where a person found not guilty or against whom charges were dropped specifically asks us to delete coverage of their case.

(11) Q. Why is BadBadTeacher.com written across graphics?
A. Because we got tired of having other sites copy graphics from badbadteacher.com without asking and using the graphics on their sites.

(12) Q. How can readers contact you?
A. Via e-mail at webmaster@badbadteacher.com

(13) Q. Why don’t your archives extend farther into the past? Your site may encourage victims from long past abuses to come forward before the Statute of Limitations expires.
A. Our archives cover the time the site has been online, since the Spring of 2007. We cover current cases but lack the means to provide similar coverage of cases prior to when we went online. Usually we are struggling just to keep up with current cases.

(14) Q. Can you have a search engine to find certain teachers from certain schools? That’ll be exceptionally helpful in seeing how the corresponding school board dealt with the “bad teacher”.
A. The system support searches such as this. In the search box type the last name of the teacher, followed by a single space, followed by the plus sign and followed with the school name inside double quotes, e.g. teachername + “school name”.

(15) Q. Some of the ads displayed on this site are clearly in bad taste. What can and will you do about it?
A. While we have some control over ads displayed on this site, the vast majority are so called “third party” ads over which we have little or no control. Ad brokers purchase blocks of “ad slots” from the advertising networks of which we are part and the ad brokers select the ads displayed in the bulk ad slots they purchased. When we spot a particularly offense ad we try to prevent its subsequent display but have met with little success.