Twitter Pulled the Receipts and Exposed Fake Teacher's Phony Viral Student Letter

Recently, a Georgia man who claimed to be a school teacher has come under fire after new information revealed he may not be who he alleged. On April 24, Twitter user @mainey_maine posted a heartfelt letter from a student who said he’d never met his dad and considered his teacher to be a father figure. The letter quickly went viral and several media outlets reached out to the man for comment.

During interviews, he identified himself as Jermaine Stubbs, a fifth grade teacher at Manning Oaks Elementary in Fulton County. However, the school district claimed no one by that name was a teacher at the school.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Stubbs isn’t licensed to teach in Georgia. When AJC contacted Stubbs and informed him of what Fulton County Schools revealed, he changed his story and said he was a “parent specialist.”

In an interview with WXIA-TV, Stubbs claimed to have been a paraprofessional at Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy in Atlanta Public Schools. However, district spokesperson Kimberly Willis Green said they also have no record of Stubbs.