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I found this today while browsing some things and It cheered me right up...


PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- A theology teacher at a Roman Catholic high school lost his job after giving a student a valentine that read "I hate you, I wish you would die."

A police report stated R. Scott Jones passed out similar cards February 14 to his other students at St. Mary's High School, many of whom regarded it as a joke, but one 17- year-old boy said he was "freaked out" by the card.

According to the report, Jones handed the student the card and said "I made this for you."

During class, the report stated, the teacher used an eraser to write the word "Die" on the chalkboard while looking at the boy, then smiled.

Police said the incident remains under investigation. Jones, 44, was placed on administrative leave. He wouldn't comment.

"A teacher is in a position of authority," said Kim Sue Lia Perkes, a spokeswoman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. "It's not right to do something like that to a student. You can't even make a joke about something like that."