document: Teacher suspended for calling her students '' `` future criminals '' '' A teacher was suspended after parents complained that she allegedly described her students as '' `` future criminals '' '' on her Facebook page . The first-grade teacher , who is in charge of six and seven-year-olds and who has not been named , wrote about feeling like '' `` a warden . '' '' She was suspended with pay after several parents , having seen the posts on Wednesday , turned up at School 21 in Paterson , New Jersey , and demanded their children be taken out of her class , according to board president Theodore Best . Mr Best said : '' `` You ca n't simply fire someone for what they have on a Facebook page . But if that spills over and affects the classroom then you can take action . '' `` The reason why she was suspended was because the incident created serious problems at the school that impeded the functioning of the building . '' `` This is not first time I 've heard something like this from a teacher . '' `` Overall , I think we have really good teachers . '' `` But there 's also a significant population of teachers here to collect the pay check and do n't have the best interests of the students in mind . '' '' The school 's superintendent Donnie Evans added : '' `` It 's a personnel matter and we 've taken action . There is an investigation underway . '' '' The school is in a neighbourhood plagued with poverty , crime and single-parent households . But the Rev. Barry Graham , assistant pastor at Canaan Baptist Church , which is close to the school , said : '' `` There might be others who share the sentiments of the online remarks but all I 've dealt with have shown no signs like that . '' `` But we ca n't have anyone with that attitude teaching our children . '' '' New Jersey Education Association , the statewide teachers '' '' union , is said to be providing the Paterson teacher with a lawyer , northjersey.com reports . The controversy comes just weeks after a high school English teacher from outside Philadelphia was suspended for a profanity-laced blog in which she called her young charges '' `` disengaged , lazy whiners . '' ''
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