Wake Teacher Suspended Over Facebook Posts

Written by Patrick Johnson
NCNN


(APEX) - A middle school teacher in Apex has been suspended after writing negative comments on her Facebook page.
Melissa Hussain is an eighth-grade teacher at West Lake Middle School. Her comments included criticism of the Bible, Southern Culture, and her students. Parents discovered Hussain had written it was a hate crime for students to leave a Bible on her desk. Wake County schools spokesman Greg Thomas says parents objected to comments on Hussain's page.

"The facebook page included comments from friends calling the students 'bigoted and stupid,'" NCNN reporter Mike Raley reports. "Hussain has been suspended with pay pending a full investigation."

Hussain wrote that she would punish students who anonymously left a Bible on her desk.

Hussain's Facebook page does not mention her religious affiliation.

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