Comments | ontd_political: disabled teacher who tried to help Phoebe Prince bullied out of her job, pension

sio in ontd_political

disabled teacher who tried to help Phoebe Prince bullied out of her job, pension

Sep 17, 2014 23:23

( TW for bullying, ableism, just plain grossness )

discrimination, massachusetts, *trigger warning: suicide, education, disabilities, flames on the side of my face, bullying, *trigger warning: ableism, ableism, *trigger warning: bullying, corruption

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ginger_maya September 18 2014, 13:56:43 UTC

No surprise the little shits at the school tormented someone into suicide, the adults were probably an excellent example how to do it.

sio September 18 2014, 19:39:08 UTC

the bully culture has gone on in South Hadley for generations. Barbara Coloroso was INVITED by the admin to come do anti-bullying plans and workshops for the district in 2009, despite one asshole teacher getting 50 other teachers to sign a petition opposing her proposed visit. despite said asshole, she came and she did them. admin didn't even BOTHER to implement her plans.

that is how fucked up South Hadley is. and that's only the tip of the iceberg.

anagramofbrat September 18 2014, 14:37:38 UTC

ugh, I'm a couple towns from there. The whole thing is just heartbreaking.

deadsong September 18 2014, 15:16:54 UTC

It's things like this that make me want to nuke the whole planet from orbit, because clearly we have failed as an intelligent social species.

kate_mct September 18 2014, 15:59:59 UTC

And people wonder why our kids are so hateful. The so-called adults are failing to teach them basic human decency and compassion. They clearly aren't learning it at home and it's being reinforced at school.

This woman did what any human being with a conscience would and she's being punished for it, while a pervert caught with CHILD PORNOGRAPHY gets to sit on his ass and collect his pension.

SMH

wuvvumsoc September 18 2014, 16:06:03 UTC

The comments were saying she won't be getting any social security either. What's going to happen to her? D:

sio September 18 2014, 18:11:37 UTC

a friend of mine who knows her personally started a gofundme account for her--if you like, i can PM you the link and you can share it on your LJ/tweet it/etc. i'm also trying to think of some way we can get this to go viral and hit the much bigger news networks. maybe if this gets more notice, some lawyer will step up and help on the legal end with her appeal.

wuvvumsoc September 18 2014, 18:52:32 UTC

Yeah, you can PM me. When I get home tonight I can put it on my tumblr. It's got like 6 followers but maybe it'll help.

sio September 18 2014, 19:41:04 UTC

PMed. though i also just did my own tumblr post and added a link up there, if reblogging that would be easier than writing your own.

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