Shirley Robinson, a teacher’s aide who had worked at the Mountain Park Elementary School for 11 years, was fired this week for misconduct after she forgot her meth pipe in a classroom bathroom. The cleaning crew at the school discovered the pipe inside of an eyeglass-case that had been placed high on a shelf and out of the reach of students, according to a note to parents from the school’s principal.
According to the Channel 2 News team, Robinson admitted that the pipe was hers and that she used it to smoke crystal meth, but she denies that she used it at school or near the school. She has not been charged with a crime, a fact that police attribute to not having enough drug residue to conduct proper drug testing. The Fulton school system is leaving further investigation of the incident in the hands of the police.
This is a very sad story. A (supposedly) mature, responsible woman smoking crack ! Please don’t tell me that she wasn’t getting high at school; she had to be, it was a meth pipe and she is without question, ADDICTED. She could not possibly make it through her shift without maintaining her “high”. The sad part of this story is the fact that her young impressionable and vulnerable students will eventually find out that she is not the person they know ! She’s a fraud. Once again it’s the kids that suffer. Just like all the collage kids that had their innocents taken from them and now their world will never be the same. Those Mt. Park students will feel cheated and lied to as well.
Shame on her!!
Hi Anita,
Methamphetamine addiction and the illegal manufacture of meth are unfortunately becoming all too common in the world of education. This teacher’s aide is just one of many educational professionals, who have succumbed to this highly addictive drug. The scariest part of this story is that if she did smoke meth inside the school then she has contaminated at least part of that building with toxic chemicals, chemicals that can easily travel through the school’s ventilation system. A similar situation occurred at the Boone Trade School in West Virginia last summer, when the school principal and a teacher smoked meth in it. The school had to be closed for close to a month, because meth lab testing revealed that 4 rooms had been contaminated with meth. It cost Boone county nearly $170,000 to make the school safe enough for students and teachers to re-enter.