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A southern Alberta substitute teacher who hooked up one of her students with a man she met online will be able to keep her new job.

That’s because a Calgary judge on Friday decided an intermittent sentence, which can be served on weekends, was the appropriate punishment for the fired educator.

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Provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten said the extra three months in jail the Crown was seeking for the former teacher wouldn’t be a sufficient deterrent to warrant the harsher punishment.

“There is very little value in adding three months to the sentence being proposed here,” Van Harten said, in agreeing with defence counsel Ryan Patmore a 90-day intermittent sentence was sufficient.

Crown prosecutor Jenny Rees had sought a six-month term for the woman, with both lawyers agreeing a two-year period of probation on top of jail was warranted.

To protect the identity of the 14-year-old victim, Postmedia is not naming the 36-year-old offender or the location of the junior high school where she taught east of Calgary.