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Teacher's MySpace Account Comes Under Fire

Parent Upset About Derogatory Comments

POSTED: 4:18 pm EST January 3, 2007
UPDATED: 6:28 pm EST January 3, 2007

A Falmouth, Mass., special education teacher is under fire, accused of posting offensive content on a MySpace.com page.

NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported Wednesday that Keath Driscoll, 27, is a special education teacher at the Lawrence School in Falmouth with quite the Web site on MySpace.

Under blurbs about Driscoll, littered with misspellings, it read, "Cows make milk. I teach kids."

The Web site claims Driscoll can usually be found at local watering holes, and it makes derogatory comments against women, Barreda said.

"Anybody can get access to this man's Web site. It's horrifying. It is horrifying for me to even know that they're going to be looking at this Web site saying, 'this is a teacher?'" said Melissa, one student's mother.

Melissa is the mother of a student who said she learned about Driscoll's Web site from her son. She said she does not want to be fully identified because she fears retaliation from school officials.

The Web site includes video of a man downing shots of a liquid that appears to ignite his mouth. A comment underneath the video said, "the worst part of this video is that it happened to me."

Underneath a picture of a book entitled "Everyone Dies," it reads, "My new favorite book to read to little kids! Oh, how sweet!"

"That is disturbing above anything -- to know that this is this teacher's mentality," Melissa said.

Melissa said Falmouth Superintendent Dennis Richards has ignored her concerns.

"Dennis Richards' assistant told me to please keep this quiet," she said.

Richards did not return NewsCenter 5's phone calls, and when NewsCenter 5 reached Driscoll on the telephone, he hung up. No one answered the door at his house on Bacon Farm Road.

By early afternoon, Driscoll made his MySpace site a private account.

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