 Police say a Pittsburgh elementary school teacher who resigned this month was obsessed with one of her 11-year-old students, encrypting her phone number on the girl's math homework, exchanging thousands of text messages with her and even talking of running away with her. The teacher, identified as 29-year-old Geraldine Alcorn, is facing a number of charges including criminal attempt – interference with the custody of a child, luring a child into a motor vehicle, and corruption of a minor. Alcorn posted her $100,000 bond Wednesday evening but was warned that if she contacts the alleged victim in any way, her bond will be revoked. Channel 11 News reported that the 11-year-old student’s mother said 2,400 text messages were exchanged between her child and the Beechwood Elementary School teacher over a two-week span. She also allegedly found post-it notes and letters written by the girl to Alcorn with the headings: “Things Ms. Alcorn and I can do,” “What we can do,” and “When we can do it.” 
 
 Alcorn is also accused of luring the girl into her home, according to the criminal complaint. Per WPXI: 
 
 Police said after the girl's mother discovered the messages on her iPod, she found handwritten letters in her daughter's school binder labeled "Things Ms. Alcorn and I can do," "What we can do" and "When we can do it." Neighbors told Channel 11 Wednesday that they saw Alcorn on the front porch of the 11-year-old girl’s house but always assumed she was an aunt or relative. “It seems people just don’t care anymore.” 
 
 The criminal complaint reports the girl’s mother found Alcorn in her home without her permission. Alcorn was suspended by Pittsburgh Public Schools in early March; she resigned, then stopped by her former school to collect her things. Alcorn returned to the school on Friday, March 13, to collect her personal belongings, and on the following Monday, the girl found "gifts and several letters, some encrypted, in her locker and desk," according to the criminal complaint. Alcorn hid her phone number on a math worksheet by telling the girl to dial numbers that had been circled, police said. Police don't believe Alcorn's attraction to the girl was sexual, but say she continued to leave gifts and letters for the girl at school, even after resigning.
– An elementary school teacher is in hot water after allegedly developing a secret relationship with her 11-year-old student, WPXI reports via Gawker. Geraldine Alcorn, 28, was arraigned last week in Pittsburgh on charges that include corruption of minors and child luring, and freed on $100,000 bond. She was also warned to keep away from the child, and little wonder: The Beechwood Elementary School teacher is accused of planning to adopt and "run away" with the girl, whose mom says letters in the girl's schoolbook had labels like "Things Ms. Alcorn and I can do" and "When we can do it." Police say Alcorn hid her phone number in the girl's math worksheet (by circling the relevant numbers) and even took the child to the teacher's Bloomfield home. Pittsburgh Public Schools officials learned about an "improper attachment" and suspended Alcorn, who resigned March 2. But after Alcorn returned to school to pick up her belongings on March 13, the girl discovered "gifts and several letters, some encrypted, in her locker and desk," says a criminal complaint. "The letters, written by Alcorn, instructed the 11-year-old female to contact her." Police don't believe the relationship was sexual, and say that text messages between the two—including 2,400 in just two weeks—express a "deep love" on both sides. As for who's at fault, a local mom points to the school district: "Where are background checks of teachers?" she asks CBS Pittsburgh. "The district should better scrutinize these potential employees. It seems people just don’t care anymore." (This teacher was jailed for showing students a raunchy film.)