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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 05:35 PM Mar 2017

(Not Florida) Substitute teacher drinks boxed wine in classroom, vomits in front of students

Administrators at Brookland-Cayce High School say they found Judith Elizabeth Richards-Gartee, 52, vomiting on the ground in front of students in her classroom around 9:45 Friday morning.

After getting sight of the unsuitable scene, officials pulled the woman — who was unable to walk — away from the area in a wheelchair and to a school resource officer, TheState.com reported.

That’s when a Lexington county deputy discovered the box of wine hanging out of her handbag.

Investigators allege that Judith Richards-Gartee, 52, “had a box of wine in her bag that was opened” and that students reported she was “consuming the wine during class.” She was then taken into the nurse's office and later brought to a nearby medical center.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sc-teacher-charged-drunk-class-vomiting-ground-article-1.2998997


Which one of you was this? CONFESS!

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(Not Florida) Substitute teacher drinks boxed wine in classroom, vomits in front of students (Original Post) Blue_Tires Mar 2017 OP
Sounds like the students learned a valuable lesson many a good man Mar 2017 #1
Also, a cautionary tale about career choices.... Coventina Mar 2017 #10
she was a Devos hire Angry Dragon Mar 2017 #2
How vulgar Warpy Mar 2017 #3
True story - the guy who taught the "State Required Class" at my high school... Initech Mar 2017 #7
Boxed wine? guillaumeb Mar 2017 #4
Can't shatter. ;-) WinkyDink Mar 2017 #6
Especially when one falls. guillaumeb Mar 2017 #9
Teaching high school is tough! WinkyDink Mar 2017 #5
sad Skittles Mar 2017 #8
That was a big handbag. Those 5L boxes fill a tote bag. So I've heard. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2017 #11

Warpy

(111,106 posts)
3. How vulgar
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 05:43 PM
Mar 2017

Cheap boxed wine and she didn't even aim for the trash can. Disgusting!

I can certainly see why a substitute teacher would want to drink. The better ones sip clear gin or vodka and no one is the wiser.

Initech

(100,013 posts)
7. True story - the guy who taught the "State Required Class" at my high school...
Wed Mar 15, 2017, 06:27 PM
Mar 2017

Regularly drank Irish coffees in class and kept mini bottles of Jameson in his desk. And the SRC is required for high school students in California, and the class teaches sex and drug education (it used to have driver's education as well). And he would regularly show anti drug and anti drinking and driving movies. So the irony here is off the charts.

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