Principals say fired teachers missed weeks of class, told students to go to hell

The teacher played religious gospel songs for his students and had been warned about playing DVDs during class. Students reported that he told them to go to “H-E-L-L,” all spelled out. “[He] said he didn’t see anything wrong with it because the word hell is in the Bible,” wrote a D.C. Public Schools principal in his recommendation that the teacher be fired in 2008.

D.C. Public Schools dismissed that teacher, as well as 74 others deemed ineffective by their principals, as of Aug. 1, 2008.