Story about a teacher poisioned at Brooks?

I remember the story. I read about it here, in fact. The last I heard was that the "soda bottle" was being sent to Huntsville for chemical analysis. My hunch is that it came back negative, or else we would have heard about it.

Yes, I'm almost certain that’s what happened. Otherwise it would have been big news not only here, but probably nationally as well. I guess what I was really wondering about is the 'rest of the story.' For instance, was there anymore evidence than her getting sick after drinking the Coke? It’s pretty extreme to basically claim that someone was trying to murder you based on that and nothing else.. Of course some people have the mindset that makes them think someone is always out to get them. I also wonder what her relationship was like with her students before. Even if it was good before (which seems unlikely) it had to be horrible afterwards, especially in the class she made the accusations against.

There was a case at Bradshaw a few years ago (I think in the 90's) that a teacher was poisoned with the fluid thats used to clean dry erase boards. I remember that she went into kidney failure and almost died. I believe she quit teaching.

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Originally posted by cwt004:
There was a case at Bradshaw a few years ago (I think in the 90's) that a teacher was poisoned with the fluid thats used to clean dry erase boards. I remember that she went into kidney failure and almost died. I believe she quit teaching.

You are right. It was at Bradshaw & this teacher is a close friend of my mom. She still to this day has difficulties from the poisoning.

It was sad for both parties. I think the boy was sent to live with his father in Clifton, Tennessee. The event took place in early '96, as I recall. He placed liquid dry erase cleaner in the teacher's iced tea. She had a cold and drank it without noticing the odor. A second boy was almost charged since he saw the incident and didn't warn the teacher, but he contended he didn't think she would actually drink it.

Dry Erase cleaner has ethylene glycol, the same ingredient as older anti-freeze formula and can cause kidney failure.

The saddest part was that the teacher's husband died that year, in July I think.

I didn't know about the teacher at Bradshaw. That makes it a little more understandable why she jumped to conclusions.

There was a kid in my class who spit in the teacher's drink every chance he got.

Not exactly poisoning, but not so sanitary either.

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Originally posted by HomesickGirl:
There was a kid in my class who spit in the teacher's drink every chance he got.

Not exactly poisoning, but not so sanitary either.

Did you report the kid?

Teachers, never leave your drink unattended.

There was a teacher that said that she had drugs slipped in her drink at BHS. Personally I think she said it to cover her addictions.... She knew that there were those that were kinda thinking that she was involved with drugs. This particular teacher has been involved in a lot of "issues" at the school..... I heard just in the last week that She actually had some "issues" with the A. Wilson guy