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Teacher charged in spat

• A Dougherty County School System teacher faces disciplinary action from the school system after a Thursday incident.

Joshua Brown

ALBANY — Police records show that a teacher at South Georgia Regional Achievement Center was charged Friday with disorderly conduct after police say she verbally abused some Monroe High School students.

The Teacher Tijuana Burroughs, and her son, whose name was withheld by Dougherty County School System police because of his age, drove through the driveway at Monroe when they saw several girls with whom her son had had issues, according to an incident report by the DCSS Police.

Burroughs and her son came upon the vehicle full of girls outside Monroe about 7:50 p.m. Thursday, according to eh report The girls told police that Burroughs and her son got out of their vehicle and approached them "using profane and vulgar language towards them for no reason."

One of the girls told police the group "just laughed because they could not believe a grown woman was acting like a child," the report states.

All of the students' names were redacted because of the ages, DCSS Assistant Police Chief Steve Mitchum said.

At one point, Burroughs tried to open one of the doors on the girls' vehicle and one of the students got out to confront the woman, according to the report.

When interviewed by school system police, Burroughs admitted that she "did confront student victim (name redacted) and student witness (name redacted) after she observed them driving through the old front driveway of Monroe High school," the report states.

Burroughs "further advised that out o her anger she did loudly use some loud vulgar language towards student victim (name redacted) because she was tired of them," the report states.

Burroughs' son also "admitted in writing," according to the police report, that he called the girls several names, including "bitches, bald head and a skank."

The report states that Burroughs was upset because the girls had called her son names in the past.

A warrant was taken for Burroughs after she was transported to the Dougherty County Jail, the report states. The teacher was told that charges were pending against her son in Juvenile Court, according to the report.

A jailer said Monday that Burroughs was not being held in the jail.

School system spokesman R.D. Harter said Monday that he system would take "appropriate disciplinary action" against Burroughs after her case had been heard in Albany Municipal Court.

"The system will have some kind of action to take to make sure she doesn't behave like that in the future, especially on school property" if she is convicted of the offense, he said.

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