Pasco County Teacher Fired Over Facebook Use

Cruikshank reportedly tried to punish the students by barring them from a field trip, and asked other students to help compile a list of their classmates who made the critical remarks about her. The teacher denied those allegations.

Board Vice Chairwoman Cynthia Armstrong said that a review of the testimony from Cruikshank’s appeal hearing before the school board in July convinced her that the superintendent’s recommendation should be upheld.

“The one thing that really stood out in my mind is a teacher is a professional and needs to act as a professional and needs to recognize she is the professional in the room and the students are under her care,” said Armstrong, who is a former teacher. “I don’t think that happened.”

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