{"id":44962,"date":"2025-09-18T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankers.com\/?p=44962"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:18:07","slug":"math-teacher-fired-for-threatening-to-shoot-students-charged-with-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/math-teacher-fired-for-threatening-to-shoot-students-charged-with-felony\/","title":{"rendered":"Math teacher fired for threatening to shoot students, charged with felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A math teacher was fired and faces a felony charge after he allegedly threatened to shoot students if he had a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher, Jerry Meitin, 62, worked at Lakeside High School in the Columbia County School District, and had allegedly made the comment in front of a group of students.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, and a warrant, it was deemed that the teacher&#8217;s comments were made \u201cin reckless disregard of the risk of causing the terror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theaugustapress.com\/lakeside-teacher-fired-arrested-for-alleged-threats-to-shoot-students\/\" target=\"_blank\">Principal Juliet King<\/a> confirmed that the threats were made during class and issued a statement to parents:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teacher is no longer employed by the Columbia County School District and will be held accountable according to the law&#8230; Additionally, the incident will be reported to the Professional Standards Commission for further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A math teacher was fired and faces a felony charge after he allegedly threatened to shoot students if he had a gun. The teacher, Jerry Meitin, 62, worked at Lakeside High School in the Columbia County School District, and had allegedly made the comment in front of a group of students. Following an investigation, and &#8230; <a title=\"Math teacher fired for threatening to shoot students, charged with felony\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/math-teacher-fired-for-threatening-to-shoot-students-charged-with-felony\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Math teacher fired for threatening to shoot students, charged with felony\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}