Home is where you start from: teachers terrify 6th grade students and then laugh

Monday, May 14, 2007

teachers terrify 6th grade students and then laugh

Teachers in Tennessee staged a mock gunman attack on 6th graders during a week long trip. After the 69 children crawled, cowered and hid on the floor crying...the teachers turned on the lights and laughed, revealing it was just a joke. Go to MSNBC Here* to read the article.

I don't know, but maybe a month after the Virginia Tech massacre- maybe this was a bad idea??
Maybe at anytime this would be emotional abuse?? Can we say the words child abuse?? or how about abuse under the color of authority??

Well, now the spin and justifying will begin..and I really have no words for this. I hope the parents of the kids in this school district realize that they are the parents and that they do not have to put up with this kind of abusive meanness. In my mind, it comes down to an underlying presumption by some educational professionals that the kids really do belong to them, and that they hold some kind of superior knowledge and expertise that justifies what they do..because they know best.

I'm wondering about a double standard here too, if a few students had staged this, I am guessing they would be expelled and even arrested.

I really have no words...but I guess I found a few...

Labels: homeschool

posted at 9:36 AM
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At 12:48 PM, Barb said...: You have got to be kidding me, Jenny. I couldn't hire an attorney fast enough if this happend to my child.

Yet ANOTHER reason to get behind home schooling. Honestly, this is sickening.
At 1:32 AM, Hen Jen said...: Yes Barb, I would be thinking lawsuit, too. I heard on a homeschool board that the town in this story has a really nice homeschool support group, I hope they get a lot of calls from interested parents.
At 1:34 PM, Susanne said...: They seriously need to give their heads a shake. As if the teacher's doing this was not horrid enough, I can't believe the parents reactions. Several parents were "troubled by the poor judgement"? One parent says "it was gruesome, but they are great teachers", "he was the best assistant principal I've ever had"???? I hate to think of the others that she's had. I would have been pulling my child out so fast and on the phone with the school board they would have been spinning. That was beyond poor judgement and I would have been beyond "troubled". These are supposed to be trained individuals. And it was a group of them that did this? Not one could stop what the others were planning? I'd never trust my kids to that school again. This disturbed me on so many levels I cannot even go through them all here 'cause I'd be hi jacking your comment section.

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