July is a a great month to be a teacher. Most are having fun with their family and resting up before the new school year begins.
Others educators are trying to smuggle drugs into prison.
In New York, a highly regarded principal is accused of trying to sneak heroin to her incarcerated son, reports CBS News.
If all things are relative, maybe cheating on a standardized test isn't so bad.
Principal Sadie Silver, whose Brooklyn students have made dramatic improvements on standardized tests, was arrested along with her boyfriend on drug possession charges while the couple visited her son, who is doing time on weapons charges at a maximum-security prison.
No drugs were found on Silver, but she is charged with the same crimes as her boyfriend, Michael Acosta, who was caught in the prison screening room with two small balloons of heroin and painkillers.
Silver and Acosta are also charged with endangering the welfare of a child for taking Silver's young daughter along with them on the alleged smuggling run.
The New York City school system said Silver has been given a new job "away from the classroom."
I didn't know principals were in the classroom, but public education seems to have changed since I was part of it.
Silver, who had been principal since 2006, admitted two years ago to using her position to get her brother a job with a school vendor.
She may have been reassigned, but she still makes $130,000 a year. That sounds like a lot, but good lawyers are expensive.
More news I ran across after returning from a long vacation:
- Sheriff buys black-and-white inmate jumpsuits because orange has become cool
- Pastor accused of child sex crimes kills self in front of deputies
- Security guard poses as cop, sexually assaults illegal immigrants
- Border patrol agent points gun at head of Boy Scout for taking photo
- NYC approves 'poor door' for luxury apartment building
- Vet locked inside empty VA clinic for at least 3 hours
- Queen's racehorse fails drug test
- George Harrison memorial tree killed by beetles
- Boy banned from doughnut shop for asking woman if she was pregnant
- UN schools complain Palestinians hide rockets in schools full of children
- Plug pulled on underwater gas station/climate change art installation
- Millions of flies hatch, terrorize Wisconsin
- Most fake Obamacare applications are approved
- Darth Vader outpolling all 2016 presidential candidates
