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Report: Tenured Morris County Middle School Teacher Sent ‘Inappropriate’ Emails To Student, 15 Report: Tenured Morris County Middle School Teacher Sent ‘Inappropriate’ Emails To Student, 15
Report: Tenured Morris County Middle School Teacher Sent ‘Inappropriate’ Emails To Student, 15 A tenured middle school teacher in Morris County sent a series of “inappropriate” emails to an eighth grade student during the COVID-19 shutdown, according to district officials who say the communications may be just cause for dismissal. Dover Middle School teacher Andrew Lota has been put on administrative leave and is facing tenure charges by the state education commissioner after allegedly sending 163 documented emails to the 15-year-old student between March 18 and April 22 of 2020 — conduct described by Arbiter Carol Laskin as "unbecoming, constituting just cause for dismissal,” Da…