Today In The USA

Damian Brown, 26, was a teacher at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana elementary school.

At least for a little while.

Turns out that Damian was arrested just two hours into his first day on the job Tuesday.

Seems he supposedly has a problem with numbers. Social security numbers to be exact.

The cops say that Damian put three different social security numbers on his applications.

Unfortunately at least one of them was in use by someone else.

Oh well, Damian probably isn’t the first school teacher to have problems with numbers….

(Vicki Rae Smith)

Every school day administrators, teachers and support personnel are called upon to break up fights between students.

When is the last time you read or heard of a school administrator alleged to have set up a hallway brawl between two students?

That is exactly what the cops and district attorney allege Vicki Rae Smith, 50, the former principal of Houston Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, did on April 2, 2009.

It is alleged that Smith encouraged a 10-year-old boy and an 11-year-old boy to duke it out in the hallway and stopped the brawl only when two visitors to the school spotted the alleged fight. It is further alleged that Smith went as far as to remove one boy from class in order that he could participate in the fight.

Smith has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor. She was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Tuesday and was released on a $1,000 bond about an hour later.

Smith was initially reassigned as a “principal on special assignment” in the school district’s Special Education Department and susequently suspended with pay following her arrest.

Smith has been a principal for the last 12 years, and has been employed by the school system since August 1981.

Smith’s attorneys have entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf and stated the allegations are false and that Smith intends to do everything that she can to defend herself.

Read about it at Principal arrested over brawl and a followup report at TPS explains timeline behind principal’s investigation

And then there is Curtis Jamar Pickard, 17, a student at Greenbrier High School in Evan, Georgia who has been busted for allegedly using a camera equipped cell phone to upskirt a 33-year-old female teacher.

Pickard’s budding upskirting career came to a crashing halt on Tuesday when numerous students told the school safety officer that Pickard had used his cell phone to upskirt the teacher on Monday. It was further alleged that Pickard showed the clandestine pictures to others.

On Tuesday, young Mr. Picard was cuffed and stuffed into the Columbia County Detention Center on a charge of unlawful eavesdropping or surveillance and was subsequently released on $2,600 bond.

Reportedly when the officer checked Pickard’s cell phone it was found to contain pictures of what the teacher subsequently identified as her legs, undies and stuff.

The school safety officer then called in the cops and as they say, the rest is history…

Read it at Greenbrier High student arrested after lewd teacher photos found or at GGreenbrier High School Student Arrested For Taking Upskirt Pictures Of Teacher and wonder if this little incident will cause them to kick Curtis off the honor roll.