Tyrico Tyler, a former middle-school history teacher and "teacher of the year" winner from San Diego, was sentenced to "two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a charge of possessing child pornography" in this AP story.

Go ahead and delude yourself that your kids' public school is a "good school" or has "good teachers".

Just in case you thought this was isolated, check out these recent headlines: 
 

• Teacher to face 'up-skirting' charge
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• Teacher faces sex charges
  Toranto - Four sex-related criminal charges have been laid against a Brampton high-school teacher alleged to have developed an online relationship with a...
   
• Birth certificate shows boy in teacher-sex case is 13
  Cedar Rapids - That would be too old for a statutory rape charge against Peterson. Statutory rape charges have not been filed in the case yet...
   
• Nebraska teacher accused of fleeing to Mexico with teen is silent
  Three days after her capture, a Nebraska middle school teacher appeared in court for the first time to face federal charges that she fled to Mexico to have... 
     
• Document: Boy in Teacher Sex Case Is 13
  The lawyer for Kelsey Peterson, 25, suggested earlier this week that the boy might be 16 or older — too old for a statutory rape charge against Peterson...
   
• Teacher on Thai child porn charge
  UK - A teacher has been charged in Thailand with distributing hundreds of child porn photographs over the internet. Paul Cornelius Jones, 39, originally from...
   
• Former substitute teacher given 7 months on molestation charge
  Fort Pierce - A former substitute teacher at Manatee Elementary School in Port St. Lucie was sentenced this morning to 225 days...