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Another Teacher in Hot Water Over Facebook Post

New Jersey woman calls her students 'future criminals'

By Luke Kelly-Clyne,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 2, 2011 11:29 AM CDT

(Newser) – Attention Facebook users, and especially teachers: When you post something, please try to remember other people can read it. For one first-grade teacher in Patterson, New Jersey, the obvious warning did not come soon enough. She gave the entire community an uncensored look into her innermost thoughts when she wrote on her page that she felt like a "warden" watching over a class of "future criminals," reports WPIX-11.

The teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave while the district conducts an investigation, but her absence isn't doing much to ease parents' anger. "I can't believe she says something like that, for the world to see, and she's now on a paid vacation," said one mother. "I will yank my son out of here if she comes back," said another. Just yesterday, we learned about a Chicago teacher in trouble for mocking a 7-year-old's hair in a post. Click for that.

In this March 22, 2011 photo, employees work in the Canadian offices of Facebook in Toronto.
In this March 22, 2011 photo, employees work in the Canadian offices of Facebook in Toronto.   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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SPHeroid
Apr 3, 2011 5:58 PM CDT
This teacher of first graders probably has twenty-five kids or so in her class... Want to bet at least one them does some jail or prison time?....
xs10tl
Apr 3, 2011 4:49 PM CDT
Robin Quivers said it best about 15 years ago and I never forgot: "Whenever a teacher is about to do something they think is clever....they should just STOP immediately."
floridavet
Apr 3, 2011 8:41 AM CDT
Gee, another teacher simply expresses "truth" and all the liberal whiners get their whities in a tighty...

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