State officials have suspended a former New Jersey teacher's license for a year after she mocked a student's name on Facebook.
Yvette Nicholas agreed that ridiculing the student's name was immature and based on the fact that a syllable of the name sounded like a common expletive.
The Record newspaper reports Nichols resigned from her tenured job at Pine Lakes Elementary School in Wayne in September 2013.
The state Board of Examiners says Nichols admitted to the allegations that she made fun of the student's name. The teacher denied the school board's finding that she engaged in bullying, harassment or intimidation.
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