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Dec 6, 2007 5:08 pm US/Eastern

Cops: Substitute Drunk While Teaching 4th Graders

Retired Woman, 54, Was So Intoxicated She Fell In The Classroom, Had To Be Hospitalized

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MANALAPAN, N.J. (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Manalapan police arrested a 54-year-old woman who was found to be intoxicated while teaching a classroom of fourth graders.
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A Manalapan substitute teacher was taught a valuable lesson after she was found drinking and intoxicated while teaching fourth grade students.

Mary J. Kaminski, 54, of Middletown, is the talk of the town after she was arrested Wednesday by township police for drinking on the job while substituting at Pine Brook School.

Kaminski, who only worked part-time as a substitute, was actually retired and was certified as a teacher 21 years ago. She was fired by school officials and banned from the school premises.

"Generally, I feel this is a safe school, but this isn't a something I've ever heard about before," said Lucas Hurley, a student at the school.

Police say Kaminski was so drunk that she actually fell down in the classroom while she was teaching and had to be hospitalized at the CentraState Medical Center.

Manalapan Schools Superintendent Dr. John Marciante was not happy to learn of the arrest.

"It's extremely disappointing. Clearly this woman must have had some significant personal problems. It's sad that someone who's been teaching all her life would conduct herself in this way," Marciante said in a statement.

Still, some residents seemed to be a bit more forgiving.

"I think that that it's probably a woman that might have had a really good record and had a horrible day. Maybe something terrible happened in her life," said Anne Hurley.

Kaminski was charged with having "in her possession and under her control an alcoholic beverage while on school property," and "becoming highly intoxicated while performing the duties of a substitute teacher of a fourth grade classe in the Pine Brook School."

She also faces criminal charges of endangering the welfare of a child.

She's being held in the Monmouth County jail on $50,000 bail.

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