US school teachers caught playing '****, marry, kill' about students
Six US teachers have escaped with a reprimand after a video surfaced of the group appearing to make lewd comments about their students at a local bar.
In the YouTube clip the group, believed to be Michigan educators from Bangor Public School, appeared to be discussing which pupils they would sleep with, marry, or kill.
The concept is a "game" where one is given three names with the task of selecting which they would hypothetically sleep with, marry, or kill.
One of the women in the group is asked about a particular student and responds, saying: “Ooh, I would f**k [pupil’s name].”
Another in the group said: “Oh I would f**king kill [pupil’s name].”
A man can be heard talking about a girl he would "marry" because she could "keep secrets" and never told when he was "wasted on the school bus".
An autistic boy was also ridiculed when sexual comments were made about him.
The six-minute video appears to have been taken at the Bangor Tavern Bar and Grill by a person not connected to the group.
At one point someone can be heard asking in disbelief: “Are they school teachers?”
It is believed the clip circulated across the small town weeks before it was uploaded to YouTube.
The school staff were reprimanded, but not stood down, after the another staffer viewed the footage and filed a complaint. A school secretary reportedly seen in the video later resigned over the incident.
The mother of the autistic student, who was mentioned in the footage, demanded an apology.
"I think they should be held to higher standards and it doesn’t matter how angry you are, how you need to let off steam, you can’t talk about children this way," she said.
Bangor Police Chief Tommy Simpson told local news WZZM 13 while he did not see anything in the video that warranted charges to be issued, the matter was being investigated by the school internally.
"There was a member of the school staff that filed a complaint because she felt threatened by the video," Mr Simpson said.
Two of the employees were reportedly given written reprimands, while four others were given verbal warnings.
Outraged parents who attended a school meeting this week, following release of the leaked video, pressured each of the staffers involved in the video should resign.
"When I hear off-campus or off-duty conduct, we can't regulate what teachers, school staff, bus drivers do, unless it has an adverse effect on the school setting," school attorney Robert Huber told Newschannel 3.
