yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing.
Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
I was talking to a student today--a Iraq War vet, 32 years old, really nice single father with a somewhat troublesome son--who told me that he had decided not to go into a teacher certification program here in PA because he had had a DUI conviction back when he was a youngster, and that in PA, if you have a DUI on your record, you can't get a teaching certificate.
So the question: does that rule make sense to you?
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2 words - FOC NO !! Hell everyone has done stupid things in their youth... ask W and he was POTUS !! Coke is a lot worse than EtOH. So a DUI can't be a teacher... when they're so short of good ones ! double
He might be a great example to reach kids who are tempted since he's "Been there" !! Encourage him to go for it and if they ask... write it off as the 'testosterone factor' !
#593825 - 04/25/1301:57 AMRe: What do you think?
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yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing.
Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
Yeah, you can get it expunged, but I'm told that it's not cheap. I asked the chair of our ed. dept., who had been superintendent of a local school district for about 20 years, and he says that someone with a DUI on the record won't even be admitted into the ed. program. So it has to be expunged early--at whatever cost.
It's right up there with the case of a student in a university not too far from here, who uploaded up to her MySpace (a couple of years ago!) page a picture of herself holding two of those big red cups with amber-colored liquid in them. She got immediately dropped from the ed. program.
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#593843 - 04/25/1310:28 AMRe: What do you think?
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Mike ZigMeister
Registered: 09/02/01
Posts: 3406
Loc: SW Illinois
Illinois will not issue you a teaching certificate with a DUI on record. Strangely, if you are 'certificated'/ teaching and happen to get a DUI, you may get a 'reprimand' from your employer (district), or you may get nothing at all, it depends. In one of our neighboring districts a driver education/PE high school teacher received a DUI. He was taken off his driver ed duties and given PE classes full time. No other disciplinary actions were taken by the school board.