NYC Spanish teacher in trouble for sucking companion’s nipple during Zoom class
Get a room — or just wait till class ends.
A New York City high school Spanish teacher is in hot water for sucking on a companion’s nipple as students watched on a video Zoom class.
Amanda Fletcher, a 14-year veteran teacher started fooling around in full view of her Columbia Secondary School students during a class last September, a Department of Education report said.
“While she was supposed to be teaching a class, Fletcher … engaged in a clearly inappropriate and unprofessional act,” Anastasia Coleman, a top schools investigations official, said in the Oct. 29 Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District report.
Video clips captured by her students showed Fletcher “rocked her head back and forth” as she sucked on the unidentified companion’s nipple, then “gyrated her shoulders and smiled,” the report said.
Fletcher, 37, then returned to teaching and helped students complete a worksheet.
Before the funny business on Sept. 30 – about two weeks after city schools resumed for remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic – students could see Fletcher scarfing spaghetti and her shirtless companion walk around in the background for several minutes.
The report urged that Fletcher, 37, face unspecified disciplinary action but it’s not clear if she was punished. It did say she was reassigned during the probe.
The investigation was launched after a student at the high-performing school in Morningside Heights and her mother complained about the Sept. 30 incident. They submitted several clips of Fletcher that were circulated by students on the social media site Snapchat.
Fletcher, who lives in Washington Heights, refused to cooperate with the investigation and couldn’t be reached for comment.
The report also suggested school supervisors ensure teachers keep others out of view of students during remote classes and avoid “activities that might prevent an educator from maintaining total focus on the classroom.”
In a now defunct profile on the school’s web site, Fletecher says she teaches various levels of Spanish, including an Advanced Placement class.
She says she was raised in Indiana and attended DePauw University before studying overseas in Spain and Latin America.
“I love travel, cooking, and games, and I am committed to refining and examining my own practices as a foreign language teacher,” Fletcher said on the profile.
The Zoom app should not be considered as a tool for teaching children. The teacher should not be blamed for using such app, but for presenting her malice actions to the entire humanity.