The Higher Standard

“Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.” James 3:1

Anoop Shankar is a former West Virginia University and Virginia Commonwealth University medical professor. He allegedly provided false information to immigration authorities, forged signatures of professors in fake recommendation letters, used fake credentials to claim the university job, and misused his university purchasing card.
Shankar taught at WVU from 2008 to 2014.
Federal agents believe that he left the United States in 2014 and started living in the United Arab Emirates, while Interpol recently said that he traveled to India.
The investigation began in 2015 when Homeland Security Investigations Pittsburgh and authorities in West Virginia initiated investigations against him on suspicion of defrauding WVU of about $617,000 in salary paid to him. Shankar is also allegedly
submitted false expenses of travels, took false ownership of various medical articles, and lied about his medical degrees.
Detectives said that Shankar lied about possessing a doctorate degree in epidemiology and medical statistics from Mahatma Gandhi University and that he had undertaken medical residency at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

The Lord Jesus was a teacher and he has high expectations of teachers.

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Brooks Adams

“It was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers” – Ephesians 4:11