Teacher of the Year finalist refused to cut ties with student she had sex with — even after being charged: ‘She is pretty stupid’

Maria Simulescu

A finalist for Colorado’s Teacher of the Year used music and drugs to groom a 16-year-old student for sex — and then continued to contact him even after she was fired and hit with serious charges. Tera Johnson-Swartz, 45, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being hit with two criminal cases — the first following a grand jury investigation into her relationship with the teen and the second for continuing to contact him in defiance of court orders not to. “She is pretty stupid, I’m not