Posted on 10/22/2004 7:58:15 PM PDT by Horatio Gates
A group of parents has accused a teacher at Fairdale Elementary School of forcing their sons to go into the classroom bathroom and take deep breaths because there was urine on and around the toilet. "She wanted them to see how bad it smelled," said parent Shelley Howerton.
Howerton and other parents claim the unidentified teacher violated the boys' rights. Ten parents and three children, including Howerton and her son Atrayo, protested outside the school on Thursday.
"This made me sick," said parent Jamie Harvey.
Atrayo said he was embarrassed by the alleged incident.
School officials said the parents' allegation is being investigated.
"We're going to do what's best for these young children," said Miller Hall, Raleigh County director of pupil services. "This is an issue we are going to investigate, but right now it's all hearsay."
"Some kids have said it didn't happen. ... We have to get evidence, talk to witnesses and follow due process. Then we have to look at the policy, and if there was any wrongdoing, we will deal with it accordingly. ... But (the teacher is) innocent until proven guilty."
If that's all the teacher did to these little slobs, it's fine. Too bad the parents aren't forced to do the same thing...it might help them to teach their kids manners and correct behavior rather than playing another victim card.
Private school- OK, you signed up for that.
Public school- very, very wrong.
I'm on the side of the teacher.
If my kid missed the bowl all of the time I'd do the same thing. Parents like the ones in this post aren't doing their kids any favors by whining about abuse. When those kids grow up they'll smell things worse than urine.
Huh?
If I had a kid and some teacher had his head down on the floor in the bathroom smelling piss, I'd ask a few questions.
Little slobs? You don't know them. To call them that is a bit of a reach, isn't it? Even if they are, that's why the school employs janitors.
No teacher should have kids in the bathroom smelling urine. They should be teaching them how to read, write, add, and subtract.
Sheesh.
well, I don't know. Nothing in this story links these particular boys to that particular urine. Maybe the lady got her kicks this way or something. You just don't know from the few details.
Readin', Ritin' and....'rine?
Where does it say their heads were on the floor?
Need more details on this one. If they were just brought into the bathroom to smell the stench it's one thing. If they had to get down on the floor that is quite another. As a parent I would not object to the first if my kid was writing his name with pee in the boys room.
If it was just a sniff standing near the toiet no prob. Face down next to the toilet. Problem. I agree that more detail would help the discussion.
In some of the public schools in Taiwan and Japan, the kids are responsible for cleaning up the school. They would learn soon enough.
There was an article this week in the Japanese newspapers about the increasing percentage of men who peed sitting down. One man said he started sitting down after he had the duty of cleaning the result of his poor aim.
This just in: Michael Jackson has volunteered to be a "bathroom monitor".....
WHERE does the article say this? Unfortunately, our Public School teachers must fill in the gap where the parent(s) have fallen down. Private schools are no better, from my experience.
I do some variant of this every darn day as regards litter. I make them pick up all the candy wrappers and I stand over them and harp and lecture the whole time about how you don't want to live in a slum.
Heaven forbid that the little darlin's would have to use an outhouse.
Boys know how bad it smells in there. It's the girls she should have made go in there...
homeschool or charter school is the answer -- get the kids out of the public school system (liberal union system)
I see nothing wrong with what this teacher did.
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