A substitute teacher in New York,
Cassandre Fiering, has been fired after using her 4th grade students
for dating advice. What seemed to really push it over the edge was
reenacting scenarios with them. In PS 189 (I swear these NY school
names are so strange) she wanted the kids advice with a guy that she
had started dating. She allegedly asked the kids to toilet paper the
guys house and touched the kids while role-playing. She said she kept
things G-rated. “The kids were saying, 'Oh, we're your counselor.'
They were excited to have me listen to their advice. They were saying
all kinds of things, trying to help me because this guy was being a
jerk to me.” Apparently there were only four students in class
because the rest were on a field trip. Translation: the bad kids or
the ones that forgot trip slips.
I have some experience with this. When
I was in the 10th grade my geometry teacher at Fairfax was getting
married. This was an older White lady who was dating an Arab guy. Me
and this one other girl who looked way too much like the first girl I
ever kissed knew that this whole situation was gonna be bad.
So one day she brings a bunch of fliers
(this was the 90's, kids) advertising a garage sale. She was selling
all her shit because she was going to be moving overseas with this
guy. One day she brought one of them ninja looking gimmicks that
Middle eastern women wear. “We can't show our face!” she said
with so much joy. Mind you, this entire time we're not doing any work
in class. 3rd period was listen to teacher talk about her love life.
