Snow day for 2 students ends in teacher arrest

[TheeBadOne]

Substitute teacher gave cocaine to teens

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - A substitute teacher gave cocaine to two 14-year-old girls she met at a private school and used the drugs with them, police said.

Kim Pike was fired from Faith Christian Academy in Longs, where she worked for about two months, principal Sylvia Kenney said.

The students told school officials that Pike invited them over to her house, where they shared some cocaine in April, Kenney said.

Pike, 31, of Little River, was charged Tuesday with two counts of distribution of cocaine and released on a $20,000 bond.

The school did not conduct a background check on Pike. Kenney said she hired Pike because she knew her family and trusted her.

Background checks also weren’t conducted on the school’s two other substitutes because they were parents of students. Now all subs will be checked, Kenney said.

Longs is about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach.

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[conalabu]

Sorry, I know it isn't funny, but it is funny in a stupid kind of way. C'mon, here. No background checks for a private institution? What if she had been a Registered Sex offender? Or a druggie? Oh yeah, she was.

[Ducky]

Well, a background check would only have triggered something if she'd been busted for it before. The article didn't mention that (and they usually do) so perhaps in this case it would have been of limited value.