Catholic School Suspends Teacher for Angry Website
Updated: Friday, 25 Mar 2011, 5:39 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 24 Mar 2011, 11:03 PM EDT
By ANDREA DAY
MYFOXNY.COM - Elizabeth Cucinotta has been teaching at St. Francis Prep School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, for four years but now has been told to pack her things and get out all because of a website she runs on her own time called burnandrotinhell.com .
Elizabeth, who said she loves her teaching job, created the site with her cousin to give people a place to vent. Users select a category and then post a rant, or in this case, a burn.
"I went to a priest and told him the name of the website on two occasions and I was not given any indication that it was going to be a problem," Elizabeth said.
But just days after she got it up and running she says she was called into the principal's office and suspended with pay. She said the "Bad Teachers" and "Bad Students" categories really got the school fired up.
"That this school would do that I'm appalled," she said. "They just suggested I take them down today, which I won't do."
The school issued this statement to Fox 5: "Miss Cucinotta has been suspended pending an investigation for a potential violation of the school's mission and the teacher's obligation to fulfill that mission."
Some students said they agree.
"Any teacher who would actually have the nerve to do that should not be teaching," one student said. Another pupil said it's like encouraging cyberbullying.
"If you look at terms of use for our site, they are more strict than any website out there," said Elizabeth, who has no plans to shut it down. She said it has gotten thousands of hits.
Fox 5 asked her what she has to say to the administrators who suspended her.
"Burn and rot in hell," she said.
UPDATE: On Friday afternoon, Elizabeth said her bosses at St. Francis told her to expect a letter of termination in the mail.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/catholic-school-suspends-teacher-for-angry-website-20110324
Updated: Friday, 25 Mar 2011, 5:39 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 24 Mar 2011, 11:03 PM EDT
By ANDREA DAY
MYFOXNY.COM - Elizabeth Cucinotta has been teaching at St. Francis Prep School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, for four years but now has been told to pack her things and get out all because of a website she runs on her own time called burnandrotinhell.com .
Elizabeth, who said she loves her teaching job, created the site with her cousin to give people a place to vent. Users select a category and then post a rant, or in this case, a burn.
"I went to a priest and told him the name of the website on two occasions and I was not given any indication that it was going to be a problem," Elizabeth said.
But just days after she got it up and running she says she was called into the principal's office and suspended with pay. She said the "Bad Teachers" and "Bad Students" categories really got the school fired up.
"That this school would do that I'm appalled," she said. "They just suggested I take them down today, which I won't do."
The school issued this statement to Fox 5: "Miss Cucinotta has been suspended pending an investigation for a potential violation of the school's mission and the teacher's obligation to fulfill that mission."
Some students said they agree.
"Any teacher who would actually have the nerve to do that should not be teaching," one student said. Another pupil said it's like encouraging cyberbullying.
"If you look at terms of use for our site, they are more strict than any website out there," said Elizabeth, who has no plans to shut it down. She said it has gotten thousands of hits.
Fox 5 asked her what she has to say to the administrators who suspended her.
"Burn and rot in hell," she said.
UPDATE: On Friday afternoon, Elizabeth said her bosses at St. Francis told her to expect a letter of termination in the mail.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/catholic-school-suspends-teacher-for-angry-website-20110324
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