Posted June 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Issues: Ethics

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/05/alabama.teacher.sex.salary/index.html

Former teacher Charlene Schmitz is behind bars in a federal detention center in Tallahassee, Florida, serving 10 years for using texts and instant messages to seduce a 14-year-old student.She has been fired from her job as a reading teacher at the high school in Leroy, Alabama.But she is still collecting a paycheck.Schmitz is appealing her federal conviction -- and her firing. State charges filed