WILLIAMS BAY, Wis. – A Wisconsin fifth-grade teacher resigned recently after making threatening comments on Facebook.

In a Facebook post earlier this month, an unidentified Williams Bay Elementary School teacher announced that she wants to kill her children, referring to both those in her classroom and at home, according to Fox.

“I’d like to go on a short, but effective, killing spree. My children* are INSANE!” the teacher allegedly posed. “* school and home.”

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District officials initially suspended the teacher for a week and district superintendent Wayne Anderson told Fox June 10 that the district is investigating the incident. GazetteXtra, an online news site based in Wisconsin, reported today that the teacher has officially resigned.

Few details about the case have been made public, but the local Fox station talked with several folks who believe the post amounted to career suicide.

“Once you put it out there, you can never put it back,” former substitute teacher Ellen O’Malley pointed out to Fox. “To actually be so immature to put it online – like that is a grave mistake.”

Numerous readers who commented on the Fox story also believed the teacher’s online comments warranted termination.

“This teacher needs to get fired IMMEDIATELY. If a kid said the same thing about teachers that student would be suspended,” Jack Sumner posed on the Fox site. “It does not matter if the teacher was a good or bad teacher. The comment is intolerable. If a parent said the same thing about the teacher, no doubt the parent would be arrested. SO FIRE THE TEACHER & be done with it.”

Others who reportedly know the teacher personally defended her actions as those of a frustrated teacher with a classroom full of rambunctious youngsters.

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“Do you folks leaving these comments know the teacher in question? If not, you should probably keep your self righteous holier than thou comments to yourself,” Marie wrote in the story’s comments. “You sound like idiots. She meant no harm, and those who know her KNOW that. I was the comment first-hand and I still hope my daughter ends up in her classroom next year.”

Regardless of the teacher’s intent behind the comment, most reasonable folks would agree that threats to kill children are unacceptable, especially for someone employed to care for and educate young kids.

Williams Bay school officials could have used the case to send a strong message to other educators that such comments will not be tolerated by terminating the teacher’s employment, but chose instead to allow the educator to resign.

Which, of course, raises other important questions: Will this teacher simply transfer to another school district and continue her career? At what point does a teacher’s online comments warrant license revocation proceedings?