Word: grading
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...theme of Karr's résumé. In the spring of 2000, while studying early-childhood education at the University of North Alabama, Karr became a student teacher at the Kilby Professional Laboratory School. But school administrators soon called him in to discuss complaints about his behavior with fifth-grade girls. Karr failed to show for the meeting. Shortly thereafter, he dropped out of North Alabama, just weeks before graduation...
...five years on the run in Europe, Central America and Asia, working as a teacher wherever he could and eventually landing in Bangkok. When police moved in last week, he was living in a shabby ninth-floor hotel room. He had just started yet another job, as a second-grade teacher...
...That currently embarrassed administrator is Banchong Chompowong, assistant director of the English immersion program at Bangkok Christian College, where 100 expatriate teachers see to the education of more than 5,000 boys. Karr worked at the school for two weeks in June as a first-grade English teacher. He seemed both polite and articulate, says Chompowong, but was fired at the end of his two-week trial for being a tad too strict...
...Convent, an elite elementary and high school a short drive from the Christian college - where parents who drive late-model BMWs shell out $7,400 a semester to get their daughters educated - had hired Karr for a two- or three- week trial period earlier this year as a grade-school English teacher. "We were just seeing if he passed our standards," a senior school official who declined to be identified told TIME. "He didn't, so I fired him." She recalled that officials at Bangkok Christian College had called earlier this year to follow up on a reference Karr...
...accompanied home by the U.S. officials who raided his shabby quarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. Doubts about the veracity of his confession have only multiplied since he volunteered it to the world on Thursday. But it's probably safe to assume that Karr's fruitless quest to become a grade-school teacher has finally come...