Police in Manassas Park, Virginia, have charged a high school teacher with being drunk on school grounds during school hours.
Staff at Manassas Park High told the school’s resource officer that a teacher appeared to be drunk around 7:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.
The school resource officer found 40-year-old Shannon Sanders, determined she was intoxicated and arrested her, the City of Manassas Park Police Department said in a release.
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The first block of classes at the high school starts at 7:25 a.m. each day, according to the school’s website.
In a letter to the school community, Manassas Park City Schools officials said Ms. Sanders, whom they did not publicly identify, “was not working directly with students at the time of the incident as they had just arrived on campus,” according to the news site InsideNoVa.
Ms. Sanders was taken to the Prince William County Adult Detention Center to sober up and now faces charges of public intoxication, police said.
Ms. Sanders is due in Prince William County District Court for a hearing on the misdemeanor charge on Nov. 30, according to court records.
In their letter, school officials said Ms. Sanders is on administrative leave and the district has a zero-tolerance policy for alcohol or drugs on school grounds, according to InsideNoVa.
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