If this report is any indication, it’s fascinating how much money people make for teaching people how to do things that they don’t seem all that competent to do.
A Naperville Central High School driver education teacher facing drunken driving and theft charges is due in court this week, according to authorities.
Jeffrey Peterson, 54, and Carla Mooney, 49, took a taxi from a restaurant to their home in the 1300 block of East Gartner Road, Naperville, on May 29, but their credit cards were denied when they tried to pay the driver’s $7.40 fee, Naperville police Sgt. Lou Cammiso said Friday.
The lack of payment led to an argument, and police responded to the home just after 11 p.m., at which time an SUV pulled out of the garage and left, Cammiso said.
When it returned, police said they found Peterson behind the wheel and that he was intoxicated. Peterson was charged with DUI and theft of services. Mooney was charged with theft of services, resisting a peace officer and obstructing identification.
Susan Rice, director of communications for Naperville Unit District 203, said via email that Peterson has been a district employee for 30 years. The Naperville Central website lists him as a driver education teacher and district documents show his fiscal year 2013 salary was $115,960.
Wow. That’s a lot of money just to teach kids how to drive. I’m thinking I may have missed my calling, because I’d love to get paid $115K to teach people how to drive. I hope he at least teaches them that the passing lane is for passing and they shouldn’t hog it the way so many people in Illinois seem so fond of doing.
To give him the benefit of the doubt here, perhaps he was offering his students a real life example of what not to do behind the wheel.