What is it about the modern profession of teaching that attracts weirdos? It is not attracting the best and the brightest...
It's pedo heaven:
You're around children 8 hours a day.
You are absolute control.
You are backed by one of largest if not the largest labor unions.
you are a state employee as well so it's almost impossible to fire you and if you appeal on grounds enough, in some districts, they'll "____room" you. ( you still get paid full salary and benefits but you don't teach. You show up to a office each day and you can do whatever you want as long as it's legal.
Teachers often get a pension.
You can retire after 20 years. So you can double dip -- collect your pension WHILE still in the workforce (in some districts)
And if your principal is a pedo as well, many start off as teachers then get promoted as they further their education. Usually a PhD in education or Administration. Nothing relevant to actual subjects -- they will run cover for you. Then even if the parents break the teacher down, they then have to face the phase boss of the principal. and going though that is enough to make the parents quit.
I knew a guy who's daughter had Type I and she was adjusting her insulin pump while in class. The teacher thought it was a phone, the kid told her it was an insulin pump, the teacher literally ripped it out of her hand and leads out of her body and refused to give it back. Well the kid's in tears, runs out of the room and calls her daddy. Daddy comes down and does what any crayon eating exMarine does. He decks the teacher and lays him out. He ends up getting something like 18 months suspended, he lost his 2A rights, and now he has a felony record.
Moral of the story: If fucked up shit like this happens to your kid, have a lawyer on speed dial. And fucking sue.
Alternate moral of the story: The daddy shouldn't have stopped hitting him.