Two Clayton County teachers -- who say they are romantically involved with the same man -- are on administrative leave after getting into a physical fight over a love letter posted on Facebook.

Rex Mill Middle School teachers Chaka Cobb and Ebony Smith were arrested on Monday, Clayton County Police Officer Kevin Hughes said.
On Thursday, district spokesman Charles White said the teachers had been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an investigation.
The fight broke out Monday morning after the women learned they both were involved with the same male teacher, who also teaches at the school.
Cobb, who told police she is expecting a child with the man, said she found a letter from Smith on the man's Facebook page.
"I am in love with you. I am tired of being your every blue moon [expletive]," the letter read.

Cobb responded on Facebook with a "tumultuous" message, police said.
On Monday morning, the fight moved from Facebook to the school halls. That's where Smith approached Cobb and told her to "never do that again," the report states.
Cobb summoned an assistant principal, but the fight didn't stop.
Instead, it spilled into a classroom where Smith began to swing at Cobb, the report states.

Several other teachers broke up the fight and Cobb stormed down the hallway while threatening to post the letter on the blackboard.
The assistant principal told police she pulled Cobb into another classroom, with the children present, to calm her down. But Cobb continued to curse in front of the students. That's when Smith ran into the room again and "attempted to attack" Cobb, the report states.
Police interviewed several students, who said they heard Smith yell "[Expletive], you don't want none of this" and "get the [expletive] off me" while teachers were holding her down.

After talking to students and teachers, police charged Smith with simple assault and disorderly conduct. Cobb was charged with disorderly conduct.
"Due to the serious nature and children being present during this altercation, it would have been inappropriate for me not to pursue prosecution into this matter," Officer K. Singleton wrote in the report.
Both women were released on citations and released on their own recognizance instead of being booked in the jail, police said.
Cobb, 33, teaches seventh and eighth grade language arts. Cobb did not return a phone call left at her Rex home Thursday night. Smith, who teaches family and consumer science, could not be reached.

School officials said they could not comment further.
“The incident is a personnel matter, which is presently under review by the district’s human resources office,” White said. "They are on leave while the district completes its review and determines an appropriate course of action."
The fight occurred the same week as Clayton school board member Trinia Garrett is scheduled to go on trial for assaulting her live-in boyfriend. Garrett, who remains on the board, is out on bond on charges of simple assault, simple battery and criminal trespass. Her trial is on the calendar for this week, but has not started yet, her attorney Herbert Adams Jr. said.
The fight also occurred while the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is reviewing the school system's probationary accreditation.

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They just HAD to be BLACK, and it just HAD to happened in the raggediest school district in the ATL metro (Clayton lost their accreditation.. and yes, all black school board, etc).



These people kill me.

FB is the devil!! Some one is going to get killed one day behind these social websites.

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Damn! They are acting worse than the students. What happened to setting an example?

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Facebook: where sanity goes to die.

It is always the women fighting over the dude. Rarely is it anger at the two-timing loser. I swear....

WTF??? And where's the male in all this? Still gettin up and going to work.

I'm waiting for something like this to happen on my job bw one male teacher and like 6 women! They had a FB argument on one girl's status but an administrator shut that down before it got back to school. These people have all these degrees but not a lick of common sense

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This is unacceptable on so many levels. Darn shame this all took place in front of the kids. There had to be a better way. And for the Cobb to say that she'd place the letter on Blackboard is a no, no! In my school district parents have access to Blackboard, it's a tool used by teachers to post info regarding student class assignments, grades, field trips, etc. Can you imagine being a parent seeing this? As an educator we are suppose to shape and mold the minds of young people. This is an epic fail on both their parts and they should be dealt with.

I wonder where dude was when this fight broke out. Somewhere hiding in his classroom, I suppose.

right, he probably got a 3rd teacher at the school and they are all doing well and not thinking about the other ladies risking their job over him.

Something like this happened a few years ago when I taught on the middle school level. A male teacher, dating a female teacher. He wrote her a note. Not thinking, she threw it in the trash after reading it. A student went in the trash, got the note and read it. Needless to say, the note was graphic, of a sexual nature. It was horrible. The student showed the note to other students, those students told other teachers, teachers began gossiping about it. It was messy. Then the male teacher came in and curse out another teacher in front of the class who he head had been gossiping about the letter. In the end, everybody and their mama was on administrative leave.

Man the power of sex just takes over some peoples mind.

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What a waste, there are qualified people that would be glad to fill in..

busted chicks...

I'm sure he is not rich or intelligent...jmo..i s he really a catch??? RIGHTTTT

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I always wonder where the man at the center of these conflicts is. I bet he was on the scene but got scared shitless when shit hit the fan. And ladies, do you really think fighting in front of dude with another woman will make him choose the winner???Too many Black women at each others throats over some cheating trifling man.