Teacher Mooned Colleague's At Staff Meeting, Smoked Pot

[matcom]

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BROOKSVILLE - Susan Bartlett's fellow teachers at Pine Grove Elementary School tolerated her behavior for months, even as it grew more bizarre.

A kitchen manager said Bartlett, 34, dropped a joint and reeked of marijuana smoke when she walked in on her at the school one morning in May 2004, according to Bartlett's personnel file. But the employee, Debra McDow, didn't report the incident until October because she said she feared getting in trouble.

Another colleague remembered Bartlett yelling, and wrote that she was "out of control not only at her students but at other staff members." Still other school employees wrote to district officials that Bartlett frequently burped loudly to disrupt meetings.

But in September, Bartlett's colleagues decided she finally crossed the line.

According to district records, she mooned her colleagues at a staff meeting and later refused to take a drug test, prompting officials to terminate her in November.

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/01/Hernando/Teacher_s_bizarre_beh.shtml

[Maestro]

1. How strange.

The lady needs some serious lithium or an ass-kickin'. Not sure which.

[WildClarySage]

2. That pattern of increasingly odd behavior

reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine who was eventually diagnosed with a brain tumor and passed away last year. I sometimes wonder now if we'd called her on her wierdness sooner, if she would have been diagnosed sooner and would be alive today.