This Teacher is in BIG Trouble // The JoAnne Chambers Scandal

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So this woman really loves attention, so much so that she pretends to be her own stalker. Now the woman's name is Joanne, and Joanne's around 42 when the story starts, and she's living in Pennsylvania working as a first grade teacher, and Joanne has a problem. She really seems to hate this other teacher at her school. That teacher's name is Paula. So for whatever reason, Joanne can't stand Paula. Maybe there's some deep-seated jealousy going on. Maybe she's just a petty person. We don't really know, but Joanne hates her. And one day in 1993, she decides she's gonna destroy Paula's life. So she comes up with a plan. She's gonna convince everyone around them that Paula is stalking and threatening her, and if it all goes right, Paula could end up in serious legal trouble. So Joanne gets to work on this plan. She sends an anonymous letter to the school principal, and in the letter, she spreads a bunch of damaging rumors about herself, like that she once brought marijuana to school and showed it off to people. I guess her goal here is to make it look like some anonymous person has a personal grudge against her and is trying to hurt her reputation. Then she'll start blaming Paula for it. So she starts mailing threatening letters to herself. Some get sent to her home. Others get sent directly to the school, but every letter paints the same picture. Some unknown individual hates