Substitute Teacher Passes Out in Classroom While High

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A substitute art teacher in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania gave the best D.A.R.E. presentation ever this week. Christopher Chiapetta, 26, did some heroin around 6 a.m. Wednesday morning before showing up to work. Around noon, he passed out in front of 11 students while teaching.

The school resource police officer, Sgt. Mike Hudson, was walking the hallways of Bellevue Middle / Senior High when he noticed something in Chiapetta's classroom was “off.” This was after Chiapetta had just taken a "ten-minute break" and asked another teacher to briefly watch the class. When school administrators finally managed to wake Chiapetta, he denied being under the influence. He only confessed when police found four baggies of heroin in his pocket and marijuana in his car.

Like any good educator, Sgt. Hudson is encouraging students to make the most out of the awful “teaching moment”:

“Unfortunately, it was a very realistic show and tell where you can preach the message to students, but they got to see live, firsthand the effects of a drug addiction problem.”
Chiapetta faces multiple drug and child endangerment charges.

Talk about giving the kids some real world life lessons

 

[Harls]

Hey, you know what's a great idea? Heroin at 6AM before teaching a bunch of kids! Nothing will go wrong here!

 

[Wolfwood]

He looks so cheerful in his booking photo.

http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/local/police-substitute-teacher-admits-doing-heroin-teac/nbQyT/

 

[Victarion]

Those ears were made for pullin'.

 

[KevanG]

"four baggies of heroin in his pocket and marijuana in his car." Did he not find that one would be enough or did he think that he might need more to get through the day?

 

[Ultimatehero]

YAY!

And this just goes to show the school system is falling down everywhere. Though, I did have an awesome religion teacher who every student knew he grew pot in his backyard - that did make him a lot cooler than us. So, I say this guy should actually get a raise since students (comically) will listen to him more than the Ned Flanders type of teacher. (Catholic school, so it was a high school course - not sunday school).

 

[Teelie]

I don't think he's the right kind of person to be teaching kids anything. Even assuming you think it's acceptable to use heroin, the guy passed out in the middle of a classroom. That's not good. It's just stupid and dangerous. Would you be cheering this assclown on if he was driving down the highway at the time instead? Or operating dangerous machinery?

A teacher doesn't have to be Ned but he doesn't need to be a crackhead either.

 

[Ultimatehero]

I take it that you can't take sarcasm at all Teelie or you'd obviously know that the "yay" was sarcasm.

This guy doesn't have it under control - but, I'd still say teachers who get high and sometimes might be high during a class, teenagers are bound to listen more and learn more from them than the teachers who are up-tight all-learning or talk down to teens as though they're children. Reason being - those kinds of teachers are basically the only ones who talk to teens on the same level.

Teachers I remember having an impact on my life (and were thought to be the coolest teachers by many, all were let go in our senior year - we all tried to get them to stay like in 'Dead Poets Society' and all who graduated consider the school to have sucked after we all left, because these were the teachers who we learned from):
Smoking hot babe English teacher
Smoking hot babe Spanish teacher
Awesome dude history teacher who loved the Simpsons
Kick ass Spanish teacher who knew karate
The usually high religion dude (kind of like Gosling in 'Half Nelson')

Teachers I remember hating:
Up tight History teacher
Always mad Math teacher
Stupid football coach science teacher AGH!!!!

The ones in the middle I've forgotten. The ones I hated, the ones who were just teaching and reprimanding, I just tuned them out while in class and got pink slips from. The ones I remember, are the ones I actually learned from because I paid attention to them because they went outside the norm of being a teacher and just spoke on the same level. Yeah, they were "un-ethical": but, they were the ones who prepared us for college and for life at my school. So if it's "normal" versus "abnormal" teachers - "abnormal" all the way, because of one simple reason - kids listen to them (and it's almost impossible to get a kid to listen to a teacher).

So, while going unconscious during class isn't cool. I'd say a teacher shouldn't be judged solely for using drugs, because chances are (I know how this will sound, but think back to when you were young) it might elevate a teacher in the student's minds and outside of that the teacher might be one of the best in the school despite that. As said, 'Half Nelson,' seriously comes to mind here because that was practically my religion teacher (and actually history teacher too). He was one of the only teachers I ever learned from and saved my faith (I know this will sound corny) in God by telling me that as long as I believed that there is some good, I believed in God (so while I was no longer Catholic, I was religious). They fired him when I graduated because of his drug habits. Every student was really pissed that that happened because he was one of the few who cared and who we did learn from. The "ethical" and "normal" teachers who were left at the end of that school year - were the ones we ignored, so I have no idea what happened after we all left (the "unethical" teachers were fired the same year we graduated). But, I remember being there. Point being - I stand by my statement that I don't care if a teacher is drugged up if it's a good teacher and that that might even make the student pay attention (I know it's odd saying, but youth is typically a time of a feeling rebellion).

 

[Senator Pleasury]

"four baggies of heroin in his pocket and marijuana in his car." Did he not find that one would be enough or did he think that he might need more to get through the day?

Are you familiar with drugs? The next fix is always the most important, dude.

 

[KevanG]

Not that familiar personally. I don't even watch Breaking Bad.

 

[Teelie]

I take it that you can't take sarcasm at all Teelie or you'd obviously know that the "yay" was sarcasm.

I know sarcasm. I also know people who would unsarcastically say what you said as a valid comment seriously. Sometimes it's hard to tell when someone is serious or being sarcastic without context, facial expressions, knowledge of their beliefs, etc.

So yes, I responded to that as if it were serious because it would not be the first and likely not the last time someone honestly believed it and said it with all the truth as if was fact.

 

[Darthphere]

Are you familiar with drugs? The next fix is always the most important, dude.

The first fix is the deepest.