Texas Substitute Teacher Arrested After Coming to Class Drunk

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Texas Substitute Teacher Arrested After Coming to Class Drunk
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

RICHARDSON, Texas —

A substitute middle school teacher suspected of being drunk in class was too intoxicated to complete a sobriety test and was arrested, authorities said.

Thomas Brownlee, 56, was in a classroom Tuesday with students and another staff member for about 20 minutes, Richardson school district spokesman Tim Clark said. Another teacher suspected Brownlee was drunk and told a campus police officer.

A Dallas police report states that Brownlee "had slurred speech, breath smelling of an alcoholic beverage and bloodshot eyes."

The officer stopped issuing a sobriety test out of concern for Brownlee's safety, according to the report.

Brownlee was charged with public intoxication, police said.

A telephone listing for Brownlee was disconnected.

Clark said students were never alone with Brownlee, and that the district had used him as a substitute teacher before without incident.

Woops

He had to be FAR gone if they stopped the test.

back in the UK when i was at school we had a teacher who used to drink in class, he'd make a little pile of books on his desk, then be slugging away, he drank himself to death in the end, shame cause he was a great teacher till it got the grip on him,

I had a grade school teacher (around 1962) who used to always complain of headaches. She was an arts teacher and taught in the auditorium. She drank vodka all day long and would get headaches so she would explain the need to go lay down behind the curtain. Of course, she would always have young boys in the class go back there and massage her shoulders.

This was how it went down back in those days. Today, she'd be wisked off to jail in seconds flat.

And there was the teacher in St. Gabriel, La. who made a young boy unplug the toilet with his hand since his oversized bm stopped up the commode. This was in the news yesterday. She told him if he did it again he would be unstopping it with his teeth.

She was led away in handcuffs.

Can't find the link.

Sh!t happens.

One of the vice-principals duties in my school in the early 60's was to pour my teacher out of bed, get him dressed and seated at his desk in the schoolroom. Not much teaching got done on those days.

Windy Ridge

Lots of us could tell these kinds of stories, myself included. Alcoholism doesn't care whether you have a teaching certificate, M.D. behind your name, Rev. in front of your name, or you're on skid row.

Shit happens!
oh, my ribs!