Seems like a pretty reckless article to write just as the investigation starts. Searches on the teacher's name are going to display this and only this regardless of the outcome of the investigation, and unless there's computer evidence backing up the claim, the evidence is the word of one student and hearsay from their parent.

>Mack gave the students back their gift cards on Wednesday, the mother and student said. She asked them what they had told the principal.
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>“She said, ‘If I don’t end up getting fired, I might just quit,’” the student said.

This in particular strikes me as very odd for three reasons:

• The entire article talks about swift action, yet this statement would have to have been made after the teacher was informed an investigation was ongoing. If it's true, now you've got officials are lying about the suspension process.
• The instance is about the teacher giving the gift cards back, yet the student in the article claims to have never actually given the teacher a gift card. Possible the teacher is a complete moron and did this in front of all of her students, but there was absolutely no reason for the student in the article to be at this conversation.
• This just seems like way too perfect of a quote. Not only an admission of guilt, but an admission this should cost you your job?