It's been kind of a disturbing couple weeks in education news. What with teachers patting down students and coaches spiking drinks and schools suspending kids for hairstyles, it sort of makes you rethink the whole homeschool idea. And now in Houston, a pre-K teacher is under investigation for calling four- and five-year-olds "stupid" and telling them she could be mean to them. And in case you think the kids might be fabricating that one, this teacher was caught on tape. 

Who set up the wire and the sting operation? One parent, worried about the stories she was hearing, hid a tape recorder in her daughter's backpack. The teacher was recorded using the insults, apparently irate because one student came into the classroom too slowly. Oh, and she was just suspended in December for a day when the principal found evidence she slapped a student. Call me crazy, but I'd kinda hope she wouldn't be returning to the class after the slapping incident. We can only hope the audio evidence makes a stronger case for that.