**Posted by Phineas
After all, he was only found carrying heroin while on jury duty [1]
A high school teacher who was fired earlier this year for showing up for jury duty with 20 glassine envelopes of heroin stashed in a pack of cigarettes could get his job back.
A judge found that Damian Esteban’s firing was “unduly harsh” and ordered the Department of Education to impose a lesser punishment. City officials blasted the decision on Thursday, saying they would appeal.
“We cannot fathom how a teacher who took 20 bags of heroin into a courthouse is fit to stand in front of a classroom and teach the city’s school children,” Michael A. Cardozo, the city’s top lawyer, said in a statement.
Maybe he was planning a field trip [2] on which the children would role-play being junkies.
Our children are in the best of hands.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [3])