CALDWELL COUNTY,N.C. — A substitute teacher has been fired from a middle school in Lenoir.
He is accused of trying to look at a graphic website on a school computer at Gamewell Middle School.
School district officials said it happened while students were in class.
An eighth-grader alerted another teacher after allegedly seeing the site when he went to the teacher's desk to get a pencil.
The school district said a firewall prevented the substitute teacher from opening the homepage on the site.
"We had the data in front of us. He just hung his head and really he didn't have any excuse as to why he would have that type of inappropriate behavior. It was definitely an admission of guilt," said Caldwell County School representative Libby Brown.
The substitute teacher worked 50 days at different schools in the county since he was hired in October.
The district said the teacher was not charged because he never transmitted any graphic photos to any of the students.
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