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.
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Anita Himburg
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!!
Meth Lab Homes
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 $170,000 to make the school safe enough for students and teachers to re-enter.
Jehovah 6000
That is ridiculous. Meth that is exhaled by smoking does NOT contaminate a space. The chemicals used to manufacture it can if they are spilled or absorbed into couch`s, or left open constantly. Meth in it`s cooked form is much less toxic than the raw chemicals used to make it. I really wonder about the overboard scare tactics on this site. Of course meth is horrible, but simply smoked, can only harm the smoker really. There is NO way it cost 170,000$`s to clean up a room or two where people had been simply smoking meth. That is impossible. There are plenty of toxic chemicals and residues already existing in the buildings of schools.
Meth Lab Homes
I wish you were right, Jehovah, but that’s not what the studies show. A well known study conducted in Thorton, Colorado by Dr. John Martyny (Associate Professor at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center ), Shawn Arbuckle ( Industial Hygiene Program Coordinator at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center), Dr. Charles McCammon, Jr (Senior Industrial Hygienist at the Tri County Health Department), and Nicola Erb (Epidemiologist at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center) showed that, in fact, smoking methamphetamine does cause contamination. The more frequently it is smoked within a structure, the more contaminated it becomes. Additionally the study reports that “it is likely that children present within that structure will be exposed to airborne methamphetamine during the smoke and to surface methamphetamine after the smoke”.