JAMES ISLAND, S.C. – South Carolina charter school teacher Rachel Tisdale will be trading in the classroom for the courtroom after state investigators recently charged the 33-year-old with helping her students cheat by granting them early access to state test books and questions.

WCIV-TV reports the alleged cheating occurred at James Island Charter High School from 2008 to 2013, a violation of mandatory test security laws.

Former Principal Bob Bohnstengel told WCIV-TV that information about the alleged cheating first surfaced last May, during an end-of-course test for ninth-graders.

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“A student in class reported to their teacher that the questions on the test they were taking were similar, if not the same, as a review sheet they have recently completed,” Bohnstengel said. “That teacher became concerned and then reported it to us.”

The news traveled to Charleston County School District officials, who presumably oversee the charter school, and eventually to state investigators, who began looking into the matter last June.

If the allegations are correct, then Tisdale began established her cheating ring during her fourth year as a professional educator.

Tisdale was arrested last week and released on her own recognizance. There’s no indication when the case will go to trial.

This drama is just the latest cheating scandal to emerge. Some 140 teachers and school administrators in Philadelphia stand accused of helping students cheat on standardized tests back in 2009.

A similar scandal  is being investigated in school districts throughout Ohio. The biggest school cheating scandal, of course, occurred in Atlanta. Defendants in that case are scheduled to stand trial in May.

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Americans obviously need to have a national conversation about steps that need to be taken to ensure only moral, competent individuals are being allowed entry into the teaching profession. Between the growing number of cheaters and the disgusting number of sexual predators in our classrooms, it’s apparent that too many educators simply lack the moral fiber to be around children.