Teacher Uses Cocaine In Classroom

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Students Report Watching Teacher Use Cocaine In Class

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A substitute teacher was arrested Thursday after students reported watching him use what appeared to be cocaine during a seventh-grade science class, authorities said.

Terry John Kappila, 45, of Jacksonville, was charged with felony cocaine possession. He was being held at Duval County jail.

Twenty-two students allegedly saw Kappila sniffing a white powder at a computer desk during class, police told The Florida Times-Union for its Friday editions. Two of the students left the classroom to report the alleged drug use, Lake Shore Middle School Principal Iranetta Wright said.

"They said, 'Miss Wright, he is doing something wrong in there,"' Wright told the newspaper. "The students were very alarmed."

Kappila initially told authorities he had been mixing headache powders with coffee, but started inhaling the powders when he couldn't find the cup, according to a police report.

He told police it was cocaine after authorities found a bag of powder at his feet while he was being questioned, the report stated. The powder in the bag tested positive for cocaine, police said.

Kappila only taught at the school for a few days this year, Wright said.

He has been suspended and will not be sent to another Duval County school, according to a spokeswoman for Kelly Educational Staffing, the company that provides substitute teachers for the county's public schools.

[TexKan]

Oficially being the Goody's, Stanback, and BC powder queen. I'm a powder addict with daily tension headaches......(don't I sound like a dream??? LOL )

Above are my credentials.......Here's my take on this - gotta be the most stupid college grad I ever heard of......INHALING aspirin mixed with caffine.......ouch - that would hurt!

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Originally Posted by TexKan

Oficially being the Goody's, Stanback, and BC powder queen. I'm a powder addict with daily tension headaches......(don't I sound like a dream??? LOL )

Above are my credentials.......Here's my take on this - gotta be the most stupid college grad I ever heard of......INHALING aspirin mixed with caffine.......ouch - that would hurt!

I know what you mean TK I get migraines that make me feel like my head is going to explode but I swallow my medication I don't inhale it.

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according to a spokeswoman for Kelly Educational Staffing, the company that provides substitute teachers for the county's public schools.

As near as I know, 443's highly paid administrative staff still manages to manage its own substitute teacher roster; but, knowing now that it can be hired out, I expect 443 will be hiring a new manager over a new Dodge City division of Kelly Educational Staffing.

Ladies and Gentlemen, start your Porsche's.

[TexKan]

Where are the good ole days where honest folks were doin honest jobs? Geesh now the teaches are sleepin with the kids, the subs are doin drugs in class gettin turned in by the kids, the kids are havin sex in the hallway - I'm glad my kids are done with school and I still think if his response was the response of "contracted labor" that the school uses - maybe the school should consider using some "retired" teachers sittin in the class for a day or two with a ruler - just to kind of mentor the "contracted labor" - I'm still fasinated with snortin HA powder - what a story.