Students have come out in support of a teacher who was suspended from her job after she posted half-naked photos of herself on Twitter and joked about teenager being 'jail bait'.

Carly McKinney, a math teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, was placed on paid administrative leave on Tuesday after admitting to a local TV station that she created the Twitter account with the help of a friend.

Since then a campaign using the hashtag #freecrunkbear has started on Twitter to have her reinstated.

Students have also said on new channels that they don't think McKinney should be punished for what she pursues in her free time outside of school hours.

'It's a teacher that's only five or six years older than our oldest students,' an Overland High School student named Shaun told 9News. 'So we kind of relate to her on a personal level.'

I had them, but they had class and the us kids came first.

I'm all for free speech and blah blah blah, but this lady is a moron. What did she think was going to happen? She may be a hot moron, but a moron none the less.