Her written comments to students were indecipherable. Eventually she was arrested for drug possession. It was part of her teachers union contract. Often, as a way to save time and money, an administrator will cut a deal with the union in which he agrees to give a bad teacher a satisfactory rating in return for union help in transferring the teacher to another district. The problem teacher gets quietly passed along to someone else.
Administrators call it the dance of the lemons or passing the trash.
We had one teacher who put a student s head down the toilet. He simply got moved to another school. Robert C. Devaney is another case in point. In November 1981 Devaney abruptly resigned as a special education teacher at North Providence High School in Rhode Island after a student complained that he had made sexual overtures. But Devaney got good references and began teaching elsewhere, skipping from job to job as his sexual misconduct caught up to him but always leaving with a good reference.