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New Jersey Teacher in Trouble for ‘Offensive’ Comment About Missing Dulce Alavez

‘ENTIRELY UNACCEPTABLE’

The educator made an “inflammatory” remark about 5-year-old Dulce Alavez’s Mexican heritage on social media.

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A New Jersey teacher was yanked from the classroom for making an “offensive, inflammatory, and entirely unacceptable” comment on social media about Dulce Alavez, a 5-year-old girl who has been missing for a week, school officials said Tuesday. Jennifer Hewitt Bishop, who reportedly referenced Dulce’s Mexican heritage in a Facebook conversation, could face further discipline by the Vineland Public School District, according to the Vineland Daily Journal. Dulce’s mother says she disappeared from a playground in Bridgeton on Sept. 16, and authorities have offered a $35,000 reward for information.

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