I Love Educators

We need more teachers like this:

VENTURA, California (AP) -- A teacher who kept a 40 mm shell on his desk as a paperweight blew off part of his hand when he apparently used the object to try to squash a bug, authorities say.

The 5-inch-long shell exploded Monday while Robert Colla was teaching 20 to 25 students at an adult education class.

And this:

A charter school teacher in Albany is out of the classroom and in the courtroom.

Police say Mark Holley gave a 10-year-old New Covenant student a wedgie during a summer school program sometime between July and August 2005.

The 41-year-old is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.