My purpose in posting was to illustrate that things aren't always as they seem. If someone had talked to the parent of my student, they would have a picture of a teacher that made NO effort to get in touch with her about a problem, when in fact I've made almost daily efforts. The truth is often somewhere in the middle :)
That is true.
And it is always inappropriate for teachers to act as bullies, ridiculing and harassing children in front of their peers to the extent this teacher did. I would never do that to a child of eight. It’s like using a sledge hammer on a nail.
We are also seeing a lot of cases of teachers bullying children who do not buckle under political correctness dictates. Adult bullies of children always make me want to play wack a mole.
We had a large coven of activist lesbians teaching in our sons’ high school and they specialized in harassment and bullying born of jealously and hatred for atheletic boys. It was unbeleiveable the harassment scheme they had devised and organized against targeted boys. But in the end, the parents compared notes and files and one of them was a lawyer (actually two lawyers were involved and one took the lead)... Talk about butthurt. :)