Times reporter Kate Zernike, who spoke with Maplewoodian.com earlier this week for information on the story, also reveals at least one parent who reportedly blew the whistle on Dufault: Kate McCaffrey.
The Times story states:
“This
is an American problem more than a Maplewood problem,” said Kate
McCaffrey, the mother of a Columbia High School student here who alerted
school officials last spring when she heard that the teacher arrested
in September, Nicole Dufault, had sent naked pictures of herself to a
student on Snapchat.
“The teachers say to the students, ‘Any problem, feel free to call me.’ ”
“The children are living in this social media world that the adults don’t get,” Ms. McCaffrey added.
It later adds:
In
Maplewood, parents had long complained about Ms. Dufault, 35, who
taught mostly lower-level English courses. Last year, several parents
said, they told administrators that she made inappropriate comments in
class — about a miscarriage, about her sex life, about her divorce.
Administrators spoke to her about it, parents said, but she went back to
the classroom and complained that someone had told on her.
In
June, Ms. McCaffrey’s daughter told her there was a video of a boy
opening a Snapchat picture from a teacher, in which she appeared to be
masturbating.
Her
daughter clammed up when asked who the teacher or the student was. But a
friend of Ms. McCaffrey’s asked her son, who asked friends. “They all
knew, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s Ms. Dufault,’ ” Ms. McCaffrey said. Several had
seen the video. “This was just another day at school.”
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