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Teacher Sought Dating Advice from Her Fourth Graders

May 23, 2014

Perhaps she should have asked for advice on how to conduct herself professionally instead:

A New York City teacher has been fired after asking for relationship advice about her two boyfriends from fourth graders, investigators say.

Substitute teacher Cassandre Fiering, 45, even had the students role-play conversations with her about how she should talk to the men, who were both in their 30s, according to the kids – who were ages nine and ten.

She allegedly told them that they were her ‘munchkins’ and invited them to dress up like ‘demons’ and scare one of her boyfriends and ‘toilet-paper’ his house.

The bizarre counseling session happened in June 2013 at Public School 189 in the Bronx, New York, DNA Info reports.

A report from the city Department of Education Special Commissioner of Investigation also alleged that she touched one student on the shoulder and touch two others on their thighs.

Ms Fiering says she was stuck with five fourth graders all day with no lesson plan. The rest of the class had gone on a field trip.

She was paid less than $155 for the day.

She disputed the findings of the report and promised to hire a lawyer to fight her firing.

‘The report is blatant lies,’ Ms Fiering, who also works as an actress, told the New York Daily News.

‘We were talking about relationships, it was all theoretical. It was an all-day situation and I was in the room for seven hours without a lesson plan.’

How is not being provided with lesson plans an excuse? I would love to meet a substitute teacher who has never been left without a lesson plan. I doubt they exist. When I was a substitute teacher I was rarely given work, or even an insight into what math skill or science topic they were covering. I don’t understand how you could survive as a substitute teacher without a folder full of per-prepared lessons and activities.

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A New York teacher has been fired after asking her fourth-grade class for love advice and conducting a “role play” in which students pretended to be her boyfriend.

Cassandre Fiering, 45, was dating two men in their 30s and reportedly asked the class to help her choose which one to dump, according to a bizarre school board report quoted by the NY Post.

Investigators claim the substitute teacher, who also works as an actress, asked students aged 9 to 10 years old to dress up as “demons” to scare one of her younger lovers.

“Fiering said that one of the men she was dating was a mechanic and that she wanted the students to be her ‘munchkins’ and to go ‘toilet paper’ the boyfriend’s house,” the report reads.

They also claim she touched two of the students on the thigh and another on the shoulder.

Fiering told the NY Post the allegations were “blatant lies” and she conducted a classroom discussion about relationships before being fired last December.