Teachers Behaving Badly
Students aren't the only ones being sent to the principal.
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Detention! - Coaches behave badly, athletes behave badly, even students act inappropriately sometimes — but teachers? Yikes! From one Ohio music teacher’s racist Facebook Halloween posts to a North Carolina biology teacher fired for having students share needles, teachers across the nation are landing themselves in detention. Take a look at some of the most shocking offenses, which landed teachers in the principal’s office. —Dominique Zonyéé (Photo: Digital Vision/Getty Images)
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David Spondike - Firestone High School music teacher David Spondike was angry with Black trick-or-treaters, so he took to his Facebook page to vent his racially charged frustrations. Spondike posted a series of messages on Sunday riddled with the n-word. Akron, Ohio, school officials released a statement calling his behavior “unprofessional and unbecoming” and placed Spondike on paid leave on Monday.(Photo: David Spondike via Facebook)
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Miyoshi McMillan - An experiment gone wrong? Overhills High School biology teacher Miyoshi McMillan was fired after an Oct. 24 experiment in which she let students prick themselves with lancing needles and then reused the same needles with other students. "I believe it's really been blown up and it's been a character strike against me," McMillan told ABC News. (Photo: ABC 11)
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Richard Como and Jim Donato - Racist Coastville, Pennsylvania, schools superintendent Richard Cuomo and athletic director Jim Donato captured their ignorance on school issued cellphone. In a series of text conversations the two school officials referred to students as the n-word and used other racial epithets. The messages were discovered in September during an investigation into the school disctrict. Both Donato and Como resigned.(Photo: Courtesy of Coatesville School District)
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Bridget Geiger and Sharon Jones - Mount Olive, New Jersey, physical education teachers Bridget Geiger and Sharon Jones were fired and stripped of their tenure in 2013 after they were brought up on six administrative charges for calling Black students Negroes in 2012.(Photo: evirgen/Getty Images)
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Minerva Zanca - Minerva Zanca, the principal of Pan American International High School in Queens, made headlines in July for allegedly targeting several Black teachers. According to reports Zanca referred to the teachers as “gorillas” and made comments about their “big lips” and “nappy hair.” While the Department of Education is still investigating the claims, a petition demanding she be fired surfaced online. (Photo: Courtesy of Pan American International High School Yearbook)
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LaTangela Williams - Selma, Alabama, High School health teacher LaTangela Williams was indicted on several counts in June including electronic solicitation of a child and enticing a minor for immoral purposes. Williams allegedly had inappropriate sexual relationships with two of her students. She is one of many teachers accused of having sexual relationships with students.(Photo: Courtesy of Selma Police Department)
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Amy Michelle Walter - Cosby High School teacher Anna Michelle Walter was already exposed on Twitter for having a relationship with a student when she was outed for hooking up with another. She was charged with sexual battery — for which she received a 12-month prison sentence for hooking up with her student Justin Foster, a minor, in 2012.(Photo: Courtesy of Chesterfield Counter Police Department)