A teacher who was removed from a New York City school for sucking a man’s nipple during a Zoom class amid the coronavirus shutdown has returned – shocking students who witnessed the act. Amanda K Fletcher went back to her same classroom this month.
The city Department of Education had removed Fletcher from Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science, and Engineering in October 2020 after investigators determined that she ‘engaged in an inappropriate sex act’ while teaching her students remotely.
‘It’s weird. It’s wrong,’ a junior at the school told the New York Post. ‘It was so embarrassing for her to come back.’
In the Zoom session, Fletcher was at a kitchen table eating spaghetti as a shirtless man stood behind her. Fletcher seemed to ‘suckle’ on the man’s nipple and rock back and forth. She then turned to face the camera on Zoom, smiled and shook her shoulders, according to the school Special Commissioner of Investigation.
‘Profesora Fletcher’, as students called her, then ‘did a little shimmy’, a student recalled. The student added that ‘she wasn’t hiding it’ and that it was a ‘look at me’ type move.
Fletcher’s act was recorded by a student watching it and shared with other children.
A student asked a friend, ‘Oh my God, are you seeing what I’m seeing?’ The student told the Post that Fletcher ‘was eating pasta full-on, then a half-naked guy came on’.
Fletcher surprised the campus community by showing up on March 7, which was 17 months after the incident.
A mother told school administrators: ‘I find this whole situation nauseating. It’s beyond a slap in the face.’
The school’s principal, Miriam Nightingale, said it was not her call to have Fletcher back in her teaching role.
‘The decision to return Amanda Fletcher to service was not made at the school level,’ Nightingale wrote in an email. ‘I cannot change her assignment to our school nor bar her from the building.’
The city Department of Education sent Fletcher to a ‘district office’ on Wednesday, according to a spokeswoman. Fletcher settled misconduct charges by agreeing to ‘irrevocably resign’ effective July 1, according to officials. In light of that, however, an education department spokeswoman would not explain to the Post why Fletcher returned to school until that date.
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