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Teacher who wished ‘death-by-drowning’ on students puts her foot in it again

She pushed her luck.

A Brooklyn teacher, who was dissatisfied with a court-ordered reversal of her termination in exchange for a two-year suspension without pay, was reprimanded by a judge this week for her contrite attitude over wishing death-by-drowning on her rowdy students.

“To be clear, the offense involved is not only the petioner’s posting of offensive comments, but her failure to take responsibility for attempting to shift the blame for it,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe wrote in the Feb. 7 decision.

Christine Rubino, a longtime educator at PS 203 in Flatbush, was originally fired in 2011 for posting Facebook comments suggesting her students should drown.

After suing the Department of Education over her ouster, Rubino won the lesser penalty from an arbitrator last summer. But she wasn’t happy with the reduced sentence and asked a Manhattan Supreme Court judge to intervene again, hoping for a “more reasonable penalty.”

Instead of granting her wish, Judge Jaffe scolded the teacher.

In the June 2010 missive, Rubino ranted, “I’m thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea for my 5th graders. I HATE THEIR GUTS! They are the devils spawn!”

The ranting followed the drowning of a 12-year-old girl on a school trip to a Long Island beach.

Neither the DOE nor Rubino’s attorney immediately returned messages for comment.

A city spokeswoman said its law department is reviewing the decision.