DC teacher charged with choking, hitting, kicking 1st grade students during school

**celeb_2006** · February 9th, 2011, 07:03 PM

(Yet another recent teacher assaulting students news)

DC-area teacher charged with choking, hitting, kicking 1st grade students during school | StarTribune.com

This booking photo released by Montgomery, Md. County Police, shows Susan Lee Burke. The Montgomery County teacher was charged Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011, with choking, kicking and punching her first-grade students during the school day. Burke, 35, of Laurel, Md., a teacher at Greencastle Elementary School in Silver Spring, is charged with nine counts of second-degree assault in the attacks that police say happened in December and March. Several students witnessed the assaults, according to police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks. (AP Photo/Montgomery, Md. County Police)

SILVER SPRING, Md. - A Washington-area teacher has been charged with choking and hitting students during the school day.
Greencastle Elementary School teacher Susan Burke was charged Tuesday with nine counts of second-degree assault. Nine of the 6- and 7-year-old students in her class reported that Burke choked them. Some said she kicked, punched, or scratched or tightly squeezed their arms.
Kendra Tyler, the mother of two Greencastle students, said she was shocked by the news.
Sharon Durham says her 7-year-old son told her Burke had choked him while he was standing in line. She says she asked Burke about the incident, but the teacher didn't seem to know what she was talking about.
Burke was released on bail Wednesday, but no one answered at a phone listing for her. It is not clear if she has an attorney.

**CornFlakegrl** · February 9th, 2011, 08:12 PM

WTF.

Did she really think she'd get away with repeatedly hurting students?

**McJag** · February 9th, 2011, 08:25 PM

Poor little babes! They must have been scared to death. OMG.

**Mel1973** · February 10th, 2011, 05:35 AM

I wish a fucking teacher EVER had the bad fucking misfortune to get an idea in her head to do something like this to my child. oh, the ass whipping I'd put on this bitch! OMG. Sweet Christ, I don't know if I'd be able to stop beating her smug fucking face in!

**nancydrew** · February 10th, 2011, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mel1973

I wish a fucking teacher EVER had the bad fucking misfortune to get an idea in her head to do something like this to my child. oh, the ass whipping I'd put on this bitch! OMG. Sweet Christ, I don't know if I'd be able to stop beating her smug fucking face in!

I was thinking the exact same thing while reading the story, I would ruin that bitch

**cmmdee** · February 10th, 2011, 10:49 AM

Someone should choke her in the jail. Hag!

**MohandasKGanja** · February 10th, 2011, 11:01 AM

I know that area. Even thought it's in Montgomery County - one of the richest counties in the U.S., the people who live around there are pretty tough. They may have to put her in jail for her own protection.