Mother's anger after daughter is handed joke award...

Daily Mail ^ | May 28, 2012 | Phil Vinter

[Malacoda]

The dog ate it, the computer exploded, I spilt spaghetti bolognaise over it.

School children have been coming up with excuses for failing to hand in their homework since the concept was invented.

Now a frustrated 3rd grade teacher in Tucson, Arizona, has decided to recognise the art of homework dodging by giving out a Catastrophe Award to the student who wriggled out of handing in homework the most.

[Balding_Eagle]

This sort of immature and mean teacher behavior point to their lack of proper teaching techniques

It took 30 posts, but you nailed it.

[Fire_on_High]

So? A bit of directed mean spiritedness and shaming may be just what the little slacker needs to realize this isn’t somewhere she wants to be, and change before habits become too set.

[ClearCase_guy]

If government had never interfered with the free market in education I wonder what varied opportunities would now be available today to our nation's children

Exactly. Education could be such a different field -- but government (and unions) are so heavily involved in the field that I think we have traveled quite far down the wrong path. A return to faith is the only hope this country has. "Government as god" has got to go.

[verga]

Because the mother said she was not informed of a problem. Given the teacher is an unprofessional cow who thinks bullying other people’s children is funny, I beleive the mom.

Well seeing as the daughter makes up excuses where do you suppose she learned that from?

BTW it is the liberals that resort to name calling

Would you like to rethink your response?

[Miss Behave]

Thank you, Eagle. It’s so sad that it’s so pervasive nowadays...and that it’s tolerated. The system and the classroom have both fallen apart at the seams. Aren’t teachers unions grand?

[Miss Behave]

How Alinskyesque with that damn smileyface....

[La Lydia]

The teacher was trying to show the child, with humor, that irresponsible behavior can have undesirable consequences; the mother is trying to convey the opposite lesson, that there should be no consequences for irresponsible behavior. Seems to me like the teacher’s lesson is the more valuable one.

[SaraJohnson]

Liberals poop, but I still poop every day. Political correctness works at work, but not so much here.

I take it, you approve of teachers abusing and bullying eight year old students? Ofcourse, you do. You are a public school employee and you can get away with it. Hopefully, not for much longer.

[Balding_Eagle]

It’s so pervasive that even most of the Freepers who posted to this thread didn’t even notice it.

The teacher lacked the will to grade the student fairly and instead decided to bully the student to coverup her own weakness.

[verga]

I take it, you approve of teachers abusing and bullying eight year old students? Ofcourse, you do. You are a public school employee and you can get away with it. Hopefully, not for much longer.

I love the way you liberals jump to conclusions, resort to personal attacks and put words in other peoples mouth. You haven't set foot in my class room and don't know squat about me or my teaching. Sadly your confession of being to busy to take a genuine interest in your own children's grades more than enough about you.

[Gabz]

It is obvious from the majority of comments I have read so far no one here dealt with nuns in the 60s and 70s. This is nothing compared to that - and everyone of my friends from those days, and I’m still in touch with many of them, would agree. We all turned out just fine.

By 3rd grade we all knew better than to not do our homework.

My daughter was not humiliated in class last year because she didn’t turn in her homework - but she sure as heck was humiliated when she got an F on her interim report card and all of her internet connection was cut off until the quarter report card came home. I made her send an email to her friends telling them why she would not be online for the next 5 weeks. Now that was humiliating. She got her act together and ended the quarter with a B. The following quarter was a solid A and once again she ended the year on the honor roll.

[SaraJohnson]

You are funny in a wacko, public skool sort of way, verga.

[Mygirlsmom]

Bully teachers are nothing new. When I was in 5th grade, I was a chubby, awkward and clumsy kid. I broke my arm and my leg in the same school year. My gym teacher was a petite former gymnast who tortured me relentlessly because I was terrible in gym class.

At the end of the school year she told me when she handed out awards, I would receive the Cripple of the Year Award. I seriously thought she would do it, too, and I remember not wanting to go to school because of it.

[Miss Behave]

"It’s so pervasive that even most of the Freepers who posted to this thread didn’t even notice it.

The teacher lacked the will to grade the student fairly and instead decided to bully the student to coverup her own weakness."

Exactly, Eagle. Well put.

[Revolting cat!]

Well, the child did misbehave, Miss Behave!

[Miss Behave]

;-)

[verga]

Liberals always resort to the ad hom attack when they have lost the argument, thank you for proving that once again.

[wintertime]

Please remove me from your ping list.

[verga]

She doesn't have a ping list, like me she pings you just to keep you honest. BTW winter I have now asked you 3 times to re add me to your ping list and you have not responded. You also refused to say why you removed me from your ping list when I never requested removal.

I find it curious that you would do something like that.

[wintertime]

I don't have a ping list. I merely notify a few friends who might be interested, and I don't do this consistently.

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