document: New Jersey District Suspends Teacher Over Facebook Post A first-grade teacher in Paterson , N.J. , was suspended on Thursday after she posted on her Facebook page that she felt like a warden overseeing future criminals , district officials said . The teacher , who has not been publicly identified , was suspended with pay from her position at School 21 after parents complained to the school and asked that their children be removed from her class , district officials told The Record of North Jersey . Terry Corallo , a spokeswoman for the Paterson district , e-mailed a statement on Friday confirming that the teacher was on paid administrative leave , adding that `` this matter is a personnel issue that is under investigation . '' On Friday , the teacher declined through her lawyer , Nancy Oxfeld , to comment . Ms. Oxfeld said any comments that the teacher had made on Facebook were done on her own time and to her friends . `` My feeling is that if you 're concerned about children , you 're concerned about what goes on in the classroom , not about policing your employee 's private comments to others , '' Ms. Oxfeld said . Ms. Oxfeld , who was contacted through the New Jersey Education Association , declined to give her client 's name . Word of the Facebook comment spread across Paterson and beyond , and spurred e-mail exchanges , water-cooler gossip and more postings on Facebook . Irene Sterling , president of the Paterson Education Fund , a nonprofit group that supports the local school community , said parents were angry about the teacher 's comments because anyone , including her own students , could have read the negative characterizations . She said it highlighted a lack of commitment by some teachers . `` It 's horrible , '' she said . `` And unfortunately , I do n't think she 's the only teacher in Paterson who thinks that way . '' The Paterson district , with 28,000 students and 2,425 teachers , has long been one of New Jersey 's most troubled school systems ; it was taken over by the state in 1991 because of fiscal mismanagement and poor academic performance . In a similar episode , a high school English teacher in Doylestown , Pa. , was suspended recently after she called students `` disengaged , lazy whiners '' on her blog . Jonathan Zimmerman , a New York University history professor who has written about education , said teachers , like other professionals , had responsibilities . He compared the episodes to a doctor talking loudly about cases on a crowded train . `` It seems to me with professional responsibility comes a duty to exercise discretion , '' he said .
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