The average length of suspension is said to be about nine months, during which time teachers are often not told the details of what is alleged against them - "nine months of hell" as one delegate put it.

BBC: Call for redress for innocent teachers

Now if we could just figure out exactly what it is that makes some folks mad as hell or at least mad enough to camp on the sidewalk for weeks at a time.

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