Teacher Smackdown

In Phillipsburg, New Jersey, social studies teacher Jennifer A. Ostile, 30, was arrested for stealing a dose of a student’s prescription painkiller from the nurse’s office at Phillipsburg High School.

Two school nurses noticed that a student’s bottle of Endocet was four pills short during a routine daily inventory of student medications. (Endocet is similar to Percocet.)

Nurses told police Ostile came to their office to get a bottle of a gel for her neck. One of the nurses heard a filing cabinet open in the room Ostile was in. When she looked in the office, she saw Ostile drop a prescription bottle to the floor. When the nurses went to the filing cabinet, they found another pill missing from the student’s Endocet bottle.

Police arrested Ostile for theft by unlawful taking and is accused of stealing one pill.

It sounds kind of ridiculous that a teacher was arrested for taking just one pill. Obviously it’s more serious than that. Not only did she steal something belonging to a student, she was probably taking the drug to get high. I wonder if she was taking the drug at school or waited until she got home. Makes you wonder if teachers should get drug tested.

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