Posted on 05/20/2017 6:18:31 AM PDT by Morgana
ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. - Two middle school teachers are out of their jobs after giving an award to an eighth-grade student.
A student at Memorial Middle School in Conyers, who has ADHD, was given the "Most Likely to Not Pay Attention" award at a school assembly this week.
Some parents said the award is insensitive and the teachers should have known that it was not right.
"Teachers are supposed to know what conditions their students have, and then to give them an award, that's totally ridiculous," parent Cheryl Davis said.
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“School was a place where we had lots of laughs back in my day - and teachers gave us similar “awards” all the time.
Libtards have turned the schools into concentration camps with no humor allowed. Glad I’m not there anymore.”
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My husband was a head coach for 20 years. Following the tradition of his high school coaches, he his assistant coaches would give out funny awards at the wrestling banquet to each member of the team. The awards were based on things each guy did that season.
The coach who gave our oldest an award was laughing with tears when he told the story of why our son received the “Have Faith” award. Our other teen son had done something just as goofy to get his award. Very funny and the guys loved it.
But every year I was tense waiting for a parent to get upset over the teasing. The one time it happened, it was the parent of an ADD child. Honestly, the coaches didn’t even think about that, he was a good kid and they enjoyed having him on the team.
They put a lot of time and effort into letting the guys know they were eachan important member of the team while having fun.
The parent was a snowflake.
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