Teacher Arrested for Making Out with Student

(New York City) A 27-year-old math teacher, Joann Hernandez, at IS 55 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn has been arrested and charged with sex abuse and endangering the welfare of a child. Another teacher saw Hernandez and a 15-year-old eighth-grade student kissing in full embrace in a classroom during the school day. Hernandez has been reassigned to a regional education office in Queens until an investigation is completed. If convicted, she will be fired from her $45,583 per year teaching position.

[Update 4/21/05] According to this report, Hernandez, accompanied by her mother, father, and husband, pleaded not guilty at her night court arraignment. Apparently, she left her three kids with a babysitter.