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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| Union tells lawmakers investigating teacher misconduct that sometimes educators are victims too. |
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By Jo Ingles - October 24, 2007 |
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Groups representing Ohio's teachers are urging the state's lawmakers to be careful when creating new legislation meant to keep misbehaving teachers out of the classroom. Lawmakers are concerned after reading a series in the Columbus Dispatch outlining situations throughout the state where teachers who have had sex with students are kept in their jobs for a variety of reasons. The largest group representing teachers in Ohio says it agrees teachers who've been convicted of serious crimes should not be put in positions where they could endanger students. But the organization's Rachelle Johnson says it's important to remember that allegations are not the same as convictions.
Johnson says it will be difficult for Ohio to attract the best and brightest to the teaching profession if the state creates an environment where personal and public lives of teachers are destroyed over allegations, without fair and thorough investigations. |
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Rachelle Johnson (:29) 
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