Thank You Jen, I just almost fell out of my chair laughing. Sad, but you are 100% correct.

What is sad, is the impression our city is leaving on so many people. Now it's Seven Moons; for the last several weeks it has been Gillians. Are management and bar tenders brought before judges for their complicit behavior in these incidents? Who knows, one of these bozos may end up killing an innocent driver.

Agreed! Leave the colorful additions to commentators...and stick to a more standard journalistic approach. Just the facts Max. Or at the very least, stick to the guidelines of the grade school poem we were hopefully all taught!:

Before you speak (or in this case write):

THINK

T is it True
H is it Helpful
I is it Inspiring
N is it Neccessary
K is it Kind

As much as I can appreciate wanting to boost readership with entertaining offerings. Entertaining at the expense of others "alleged" behavior is IMHO, falling outside the lines of what one would consider fine journalism.
I love getting my daily local dose from The Patch and very much appreciate the hard work and talents that go in to it's publication. Just hope to see more of those great works and less of this fare!!

Completely disagree. Any person employed by state or local government (i.e. payed vis taxpayer dollars) needs to have their job description disclosed when an arrest is made public. State and local gov't employees, elected officials, and especially teachers are held to a higher standard than anyone in the private sector. I would not want this drunk teaching my kids. Teachers teach and lead in many ways. One of those ways is by example. What example is being shown to kids when (not if) she returns to the classroom? Please don't use the "free time" or "off the clock" excuse. Drunks like her cannot perform their jobs equal to someone that is sober. I am just glad she doesn't teach in NK.

Perhaps her occupation is significant because her behavior is unbecoming of a municipal employee and certainly of a teacher. Further, she felt it necessary to identify herself to the police as a teacher (read the report). She also felt it necessary to identify her brother (by the way, he is a sheriff - doesn’t do real police work, transports prisoners) as a "cop". Perhaps if she kept her big FAT mouth shut, none of this wouldn't have ended up in the police report. Photoman67 being a teacher or related to one, you should know this. She is trash; we don’t need her in the classroom. Seed and soil, go back to your classroom and write grade school poems, your students are waiting for you.

I believe the reporter is just stating all the facts - facts without quotation marks, btw - available as contained in the police report, thus delivering the most detailed, verifiable, accurate information possible. And this is certainly what I look for in journalism. Note that Projo and all the local television stations also refer to the woman's profession.

Photoman67,
The inclusion of a person's occupation in an arrest report article, though rare, is dependent on many factors. In this particular case, I included her occupation because, during her arrest, she continued to scream at police officers that she was a teacher. I don't typically include a person's occupation, only if it's relevant to the story. Because she allegedly screamed it at officers during her arrest and due to the nature of her arrest (i.e. assault, possible intoxication, cursing in front of children), I and other local media outlets have included her occupation.

@jap... When it reads "according to reports" or "allegedly", it is what someone else said happened. Unless the writer of this piece was there and had cameras rolling to capture ALL of the actual FACTS of exactly what happened and exactly what was stated....it is all just that....allegations, hearsay. My point is that this kind of reporting is certainly entertaining, and probably boosts readership. But is this lowest common denominator reporting the direction The Patch wants to head? I hope not!

Just a Parent is her behavior unbecoming of an alcoholic? Why don't we take her to the hill and let the townspeople stone her!! "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 The law will provide the consequence do we need to continue beating a dead horse. Just because we don't get caught when we are unbecoming........just saying.

Excellent point C.C. I have wondered the same thing and like you believe the bartenders/management are somewhat responsible. However, I don't feel it removes her of personal responsibility. The bottom line is this teacher, a very poor excuse for a role model, was drinking and continue to drink excessively. And upon the police arriving to help her drinking buddy, got belligerent and subsequently arrested. She put herself in that position and it is ultimately her responsibility.

Totally agree.

yeah,, let's not hold this WOMAN responsible for her actions. She's a victim, right?

Whatever is going on in her life is immaterial. What kind of person is she? She is one that abuses alcohol, gets abusive and disrespects authority. What a wonderful role model!!! She was drunk and disorderly in public, disrespectful to law enforcement and other patrons which consisted of children. Personal behavior is nobody's fault except the person. She should be suspended without pay and then fired. But the RI teachers union will protect her and no doubt she will be in front of kids like nothing ever happened.
When the teachers union tells you "its all about the kids", you can rest assured it most certainly is not.

We expect our teachers to be held to a higher standard than a common drunk....our tax dollars at work everyone.

Because they needed her out of there. She took out half the on-duty police force already. One more round and we'd have NO police, until a new shift shows up! LOL