Green had the best possible teacher, working as an assistant to John Rennie before taking up his Devon post.

BBC: Building bridges

The 47-year-old assistant teacher also said Beale has regularly provided school supplies and Christmas gifts to needy students.

WSJ: Anti-gun Democrat shoo-in to replace Jackson Jr.

Gary Haines, who describes himself as black and a product of an inner city school system, is training to be a teacher having worked in London as a learning support assistant.

BBC: Kwame Kwei-Armah in his BBC One Casualty role

The same year, Mr Kaczynski worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was widely recognised as a teacher likely to get tenure.

BBC: Profile: Theodore Kaczynski

Erin McLean, the young assistant teacher who had an affair with her former student, had taken off with her children and was nowhere to be found in the Knox County Courthouse.

MSN: A Deadly Triangle