Teacher Accused Of Writing Love Letters To Student - Tonya Johnson, Clayton County School District
Is it wrong to write love letters to a 12-year-old boy? Probably not if you're a 12-year-old girl, but a 42-year-old female teacher? Here's more from WSB-TV in Atlanta (link includes video clip):
A Clayton County mother has been granted a temporary restraining order after she said her 12-year-old son received love letters from his 42-year-old teacher.
The alleged situation came to light when another teacher thought Tonya Johnson was a little too close to a 12-year-old boy, investigators said. Then the teacher discovered a love letter in the trash and turned it over to the principal.
“I want you to be with me. I know that we are both with someone else, but that’s going to change one day," the letter read.
It’s a typical love letter: A woman expresses her affection for the object of her desire. But in this case, the object of the writer's desire is a 12-year-old boy, according to the boy's mother, and the writer is his teacher and she's married.
Once the boy’s mother found out about the letter, she said she was shocked at what she read.
The letter also reads, “I have been suffering in this marriage a long time and you seem to be the only peace in my life.”
Police said they believe the letter was written by Johnson.
“She thinks she is in love with my child. A 42-year-old woman wrote him a love letter expressing her feelings toward him,” said the boy’s mother.
The boy’s mother said Johnson’s attempts to have a romantic relationship with her son has left both she and her son nervous wrecks. She said she's angry that after the Clayton County School District found out about the love letter, they didn’t fire Johnson.
“My husband and I were told she was fired, her certificate was going to be pulled and she would never work in Clayton County again,” said the boy’s mother.
A school district spokesperson told Channel 2’s Tom Jones, administrators planned to fire Johnson but gave her the option to resign, which she did.


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