NYC Teacher Christine Rubino Fighting to Keep Job After Facebook Rant Calling for Student's Death Actually Happens

A Facebook rant may have cost New York City teacher, Christine Rubino, her job. According to the New York Post, Rubino vented her frustration with unruly fifth grade students by referring to the death of a 12 year old Harlem student, the day before she drowned on a class trip to the beach last June. Rubino wrote on her Facebook page wall, "After today, I’m thinking the beach is a good trip for my class. I hate their guts," Rubino wrote on her BlackBerry, moments after leaving PS 203 in the Flatlands neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, a Facebook friend asked,"Wouldn’t you throw a life jacket to little Kwami?""No, I wouldn’t for a million dollars," Rubino answered, according to the NY Post. Well, the little girl did drown and now the teacher is fighting for her job.

I recently wrote about Coal Mountain Elementary School principal Debbie Napier Smith holding a gun in a picture on her Facebook page. I also wrote about two students who were suspended and one expelled from Chapel Hill Middle School in Douglas County after calling a teacher a "rapist, pedophile and bipolar" on their Facebook pages. Why is there such a terrible double standard across school districts in the U.S. on how to set a privacy policy on Facebook? Debbie Napier Smith should have been held to a higher standard, in the same vein as Christine Rubino and the students at Chapel Hill Elementary?

Rubino, who seems to have been a teacher at the school for 15 years, maintains that though the comments were insensitive and uttered "out of pure anger," dmits she made the insensitive comments "out of pure anger" at her students’ rowdy behavior last June 23, her comments were made in private and unseen by students or parents.

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