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Subscribe to RSSA North Carolina fifth-grade teacher is accused of giving malt beverages to teens and allowing them to drink at her house in Jacksonville, according to local media reports.
Authorities in Onslow County say Diane Mennig, 52, has been charged with providing high school-aged youth alcohol between November and January at her home on Running Road, the Daily News of Jacksonville reported.
Police charged Mennig with three counts each of giving malt beverages to people under 21, giving liquor to people under 21 and overage aiding and abetting an underage person possessing and consuming alcoholic beverages, the Daily News reported.
“We will be talking with Ms. Mennig in the next few days to determine employment status,” Barry Collins, spokesman for Onslow County Schools, told the Daily News on Wednesday.
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Mennig teaches fifth grade at Morton Elementary School. She has been at the school for seven years and has been a teacher for 25 years.
Mennig has two daughters and is formerly from West Virginia, according to Morton Elementary School’s website. One daughter is high school age.
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If teens can be given condoms, why not alcohol?
After all if it were not for alcohol most sex wouldn't happen!
You are exactly right on the mark.
As the song says, "I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few."
HA HA HA HA
If some of these kids can serve in the military and get messed up in the leader of this countries war why can't they have a beer???????
5th grade teacher and it doesn't make mention of their ages, and who is to say the drinks weren't the only thing she was giving, nor does it mention the sex of the teens..who knows...
Translation: The union rep needs a few days to put together all the reasons she can't be fired.
Teachers unions are not allowed in NC...
Ha ha...exactly!
Seriously, what is wrong with teachers anymore....if they aren't having sex with their students, they are bathing 8 year olds who smell bad or doing something like this.
This lady is 52, a teacher for 25 years....she definitely should know better.
Let me start by saying, "I am totally against the idea of putting alcohol in the hands of anyone not of age." I know of parents that say that they have the right to give their own kids alcohol. And it's better to have them here drinking then somewhere that they have to drive to and from.
On that note, since it is summer, she teaches during the school year and has 1 teenage daughter, isn't this more like a parent giving their own child alcohol and less like a teacher giver her classroom kids alcohol. I just think that this article, while accurate, is a bit misleading.
Again, I don't think that this parent should allow her daughter and friends to have alcohol. But, when you look at it this way, it's not much of a story. I just don't like this article giving the anti-education folks ammunition, even if it is blanks.
What's funny is, it's usually the anti-education folks that allow their own kid and friends to drink in their home. Just my experience anyway.
What did you do when you were this age did you try to find some one to buy you beer?
if i was one of those students and my teacher was handing me beer there would be only one thing on my mind :0~c=8
why were they at her house?
More than likely they were friends of her TEENAGED daughter.
Moral decay.
Don't all teenagers in North Carolina drink? And hey, it wasn't like she was having sex with them. And it was during the holiday season. Cut the lady some slack.
Why did she buy them malt liquor? She could have at least sprung for the good stuff if she wants to be cool with the teens! Get some boones farm or budweiser at least. That's what we drank as under age minors. Oh yeah, and who the hell cares? I drank when I was underage and so did my parents. In fact it was legal back then for my parents. They only made the drinking age 21 recently (relatively speaking).
Guess what? My parents are responsible adults with four kids and I am a successful 30 something doing just fine with a career. If anything telling kids they can't have something makes them want it more. Why do you think the US has the highest binge drinking rate? Maybe because we have the highest drinking age of any industrialized country? When we make drinking a crime for those 18 -20yo we make criminals out of our youth because they are going to drink anyway. This is a problem with the system not with the teacher.
If a grown adult thinks it is appropriate to let their children drink then I say what business is it of mine to tell them otherwise? I don't know if this was the case but I have many friends who were allowed to drink underage under certain circumstances with their parents so they didn't go to college and binge like a fish. They knew how to handle alcohol responsibly and what their tolerances were. Oh well...