RALEIGH, N.C., April 8 (UPI) -- A North Carolina teacher embroiled in a controversy about comments on her Facebook page has been reassigned to an office job.
Melissa Hussain, who was suspended with pay for several weeks, is now coordinating middle school science teaching in the Wake County school district, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer reported. She is making the same salary she did as a science teacher at West Lake Middle School near Apex.
The controversy began when eighth-grade students left a Bible on Hussain's desk. On her Facebook page, she called the action a "hate crime" and said it would not be "unpunished" and she had shamed her students.
Some of her friends made harsher comments, calling the students "ignorant southern rednecks." One recommended putting a swastika on a Dale Earnhardt Jr. poster and showing it to the students.
Hussain responded that would leave her "without a job." But she added, "I like it."
