Some teachers are jerks--reposted from fountaingirl

[wretchmuffin]

Maybe I'm taking this a little personally because next year my son will probably be in kindergarten (and I'm wondering if I'm "tiger mom"-ing [as one of you describes it] by proxy), but here's your Bad Teacher story of the weekIn brief, Wendy Portillo had a five year old kindergartner stand up in front of his classmates and have them tell him what

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[bulletslc]

As a probably Aspberger's sufferer....(and a "weird kid" who took alot of flack from grade school through highschool) this just makes me ill.

[wretchmuffin]

She's a wretched human; even setting aside the disability (which I hope the kid's lawyers don't, as Portillo knew that such a diagnosis was possible), this is a rotten way to treat any person, any age. Grrrr.

[gezellig_girl]

I can do better than that. My husband writes for Scholastic Administrator and can hopefully get this in their "Good/Bad/Ugly" section. This one would be an "ugly." Published shaming! Hooray!

[wretchmuffin]

By yesterday, this story had made it to the "Today" show. Whoa.

[wretchmuffin]

It's pretty creepy . . . I've been flashing to it often since the weekend. Poor little mite.

[ex_josh_han]

In my classroom, we vote on who gets a caning.

I can show you the marks.

[wretchmuffin]

Hahaha!

[mehinda]

Here's the way I see it. There very well may have been a legitimate need to remove the kid from the class (for disruptive behavior, for his own good, or any such reason), but that's a decision the teacher should have made on her own as the responsible adult for the group, not a decision to put toward the class of five-year-olds. And definitely not a point to allow the humiliation of one child at the hands of the rest of the class.

In one of the articles I read on this, the boy asked the teacher where he was supposed to go since he had to leave the classroom. The teacher asked him where he thought he should be and he said the office. Supposedly the teacher said, "They don't want you there." He then asks if he can go home and the teacher allegedly said, "Your mommy's at work." So instead he goes to the nurse's office.

If he had been disrupting the class with his behavior, then (it seems to me) the only acceptable place for him to go would be the school office. In bypassing that, it really smacks as if the teacher didn't want

[wretchmuffin]

Oh my god, I didn't see that article. Good god.