Tameka Gatewood, kindergarten teacher at Rainshaven Elementary School [Memphis City Schools], Memphis, Tennessee, "suspended without pay for comments she made about her students on her Facebook page" WLBT: Teacher suspended for FB comments about kindergartners (Oct 25 2012) In reference to two students insulting each other, [Tameka] Gatewood posted the following to her Facebook page:"How bout I blasted both of them. The girl in my class hair is nappy almost every day and the boy wears dirty clothes, face nasty and can't even read. They didn't bother nobody else when I got through with them."The students she is referring to – are kindergartners.Another post reads, "If another parent tell me it's my job to teach their children, it's gonna be po po time.""Po po" is slang for police.In another post, she offers an alternative to turning the other cheek."What do you think you're supposed to do? Bang! Bang! Shoot 'em up dammit! Just kidding!! For real tho - slap their (expletive deleted) back then Bang! Bang! Shoot 'em up dammit," Gatewood posted on Facebook. WAFB: Teacher suspended for FB comments about kindergartners (Oct 25 2012) A Memphis kindergarten teacher is suspended without pay for comments she made about her students on her Facebook page. Memphis City Schools parents were shocked when they saw the Facebook posts of Rainshaven Elementary School teacher Tameka Gatewood....Weeks after Action News 5 alerted the district to Gatewood's posts, the district suspended her without pay pending the outcome of a tenure hearing. A review of her personnel file shows she was reprimanded multiple times for insubordination early in her career with MCS. In a 2002 letter to personnel, the principal at Sharpe Elementary School, where Gatewood worked at the time, pleaded with the district to remove Gatewood from her clerical job. The letter said, "How many times does a person have to be insubordinate before action is taken?"Six years later, Gatewood became an MCS teacher.Tags:
